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Updates on the scandal involving the corrupt and powerful whaling industry (which is funded with taxpayers’ money). Two of our activists are still awaiting trial for intercepting a box of stolen whale meat, and delivering it to the police.

Whale meat scandal updates

Take action: Contact the Prosecutor about the real whaling scandal

What would happen if Japan's Supreme Public Prosecutor's office was inundated by letters calling for the whale meat investigation to be re-opened? Join us to find out!

On this page we've prepared a letter you can print, write and post yourself, and a list of talking points you could use if you prefer to write a personal letter instead. Be creative!

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Whale meat scandal: Many questions

Why would we believe the whaling industry when it says it is innocent? The institutions behind the Japanese whaling operation have apparently now investigated themselves and cleared themselves of any wrongdoing over the whale meat embezzlement scandal exposed by Greenpeace in May.

Harpooned: Greenpeace exposes scandal at heart of whaling

Stake outs, testimony from informers, hidden cameras and tailing trucks full of stolen goods - it reads like a Hollywood movie, but it was an every day experience for Greenpeace activists in Japan, who have spent four months cracking open a major conspiracy of corruption at the heart of Japan's government-backed, sham scientific whaling operation.

Activists charged for exposing whale meat scandal

Our Japanese activists Junichi Sato and Toru Suzuki were charged with theft and trespass today by the prosecutor in Aomori after they exposed a major scandal around the embezzlement of whale meat from the Japanese government-sponsored Southern Ocean whaling programme.

Japan holds whale activists without charge (Updated)

Japanese police have arrested two Greenpeace activists for exposing a whale meat scandal involving the government-sponsored whaling programme. The two activists, Junichi Sato, 31, and Toru Suzuki, 41, are being investigated for allegedly stealing a box of whale meat which they presented as evidence.

TAKE ACTION: Demand the release of our activists

Executive Assistant to Fundraising Director

To manage and support all matters relating to the Fundraising Directors day-to-day business, agenda and obligations - according to good business practice - to enable the FR Director to work efficiently and effectively.

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Climate Team Leader

Greenpeace is taking action all over the world for our planet's future, and there has never been a more important time to stand up and be counted! We are seeking a very experienced and skilled individual who has the vision, energy and dynamism to lead and co-ordinate a campaigning team working on climate change. This is a very challenging and exciting senior campaigning role for an experienced campaigner and manager who has expert knowledge of the global climate debate, specifically with regard to New Zealand.

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Fonterra's Climate Crimes: A call to action

Just before dawn this morning Greenpeace activists shut down a mine pit at the Southland ‘New Vale’ lignite coalmine. This was the third of a series of actions targeting Fonterra’s climate crimes. Support is now building for a public protest at the Fonterra Corporate HQ.

FACTSHEET: Fonterra and Climate Change

November 16, 2009

A factsheet outlining Fonterra's climate crimes including the use and importation of palm Kernel (PKE) animal feed and its impact on Indonesian rainforest, intensification and fertiliser use, burning coal and domestic deforestation, and the risk to New Zealand's clean green reputation.

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