Greenpeace activists take direct action to halt North Sea trawlers fishing cod towards extinction. Greenpeace are calling not only for a halt to cod fishing, but also for large areas of the North Sea to become protected as marine reserves.
Sea turtle entangled in fishing gear. Greenpeace activists onboard the Rainbow Warrior found the turtle in the Mediterranean Sea north of Libya, and freed it.
Greenpeace turning the Ark over to the public in an official ceremony. Greenpeace Noah's Ark was build on Mount Ararat, the biblical mountain, to warn of impending climate disaster. Greenpeace has finished the construction of a new Noah's Ark on Mount Ararat at an elevation of 2,500 meters.
In the spirit of peaceful, non-violent communication to the G8, Greenpeace and volunteers from environment and social justice groups, have today formed a human banner, with the message, "G8: ACT NOW!" Underneath the human banner, a second banner reads "Stop Global Warming." The creation of this banner forms a message to the G8 countries to take urgent action to halt dangerous climate change.
Cheng Qian from Solar Generation China, speaking at the G8 demonstration in Rostock, Germany
Guanli Wang interviews a local woman about water levels in her village.
Student at the Solar Generation campaigning skillshare
G8 heads of state around the summit table.
User created design from the Green my Apple campaign.
Greenpeace divers chained the propeller of the notorious Russian flagged fish freezer vessel Mumrinskiy to the quayside in the Dutch port of Eemshaven and launched a floating banner reading 'Scrap the Pirate'. Greenpeace is calling on the Dutch government and the international community to demand the immediate scrapping of the Mumrinskiy.
The Mumrinskiy has a long history of involvement in illegal operations, including transhipment of Barents cod from illegal boats, ignoring commands from Norwegian authorities and misreporting its cargo to hide illegally caught fish.
The Mumrinskiy arrived from the Barents Sea on Saturday to offload its cargo at Sealane Cold Storage BV, a Dutch freezing company. On June 12th the ship was documented by the Norwegian Coastguard transhipping illegally to the reefer Sinbad, another vessel with a scandalous track record of involvement in the Barents illegal cod fishery. The Sindbad was operating without a flag and under the unregistered name `Marlin'. The Sindbad/Marlin was immediately blacklisted but the Murminskiy escaped unpunished.
“The Mumrinskiy continues to break laws that have been put in place to manage the world's last remaining relatively healthy cod stock. It is obvious that it will continue to engage in illegal activities if allowed to return to sea,” said Farah Obaidullah, Greenpeace Netherlands oceans campaigner. “In a time of rampant over fishing governments can not continue to turn a blind eye to documented pirates like the Mumrinskiy. This ship must be scrapped, and her owners charged with stealing fish from the Barents Sea.”
According to the United Nations 74 % of the worlds commercial fish stocks are either fully exploited or depleted. Pirate fishing, also known as illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing (IUU) is a $9 billion rogue industry that has a devastating effect on fish stocks and biodiversity in some of the most ecologically important areas of the world's oceans such as the Barents Sea.
“The reality is that there is simply not enough fish left in the sea for all the boats out there,” said Sari Tolvanen, Greenpeace International oceans campaigner. “Governments must work together to establish a global database of vessels and promptly blacklist those caught operating illegally, such as the Murminskiy, in order to address pirate fishing and establish a worldwide network of marine reserves to restore fish stocks.”
Greenpeace is an independent campaigning organisation that uses non-violent creative confrontation to expose global environmental problems to drive solutions that are essential to a green and peaceful future.
Other contacts: Farah Obaidullah, Greenpeace Netherlands Oceans Campaigner (in Eemshaven) +31 615 011 161 Truls Gulowsen, Greenpeace Nordic Oceans Campaigner +47 90 10 79 04 Sari Tolvanen, Greenpeace International Oceans Campaigner +31 655 125 480 Isabel Leal, Greenpeace International Press Officer +34 647 241 502
VVPR info: Pictures available from Greenpeace International photo desk: Franca Michienzi, +31 653 819 255Footage available from Greenpeace International video unit: +31 20 718 2190
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Exp. contact date: 2007-07-18 00:00:00