People all over the world have responded to the plight of New Zealand’s critically endangered Maui’s dolphin. The Government called for submissions and received over 20,000 from people in New Zealand and all around the world wanting immediate action to save Maui’s dolphin from extinction.

As you know, Maui’s dolphin is the world’s smallest and most endangered marine dolphin. It is found only in New Zealand waters and the latest population estimate indicates only 55 adult dolphins remain alive. The sad truth is, they’re now outnumbered by our Members of Parliament.

The future of Maui’s dolphin is now in the hands of those politicians. To highlight this point to them we commissioned Wellington artist Sheyne Tuffery to produce 55 artworks representing the alarmingly small Maui’s dolphin popul... Read more >

Greenpeace Finland is bearing witness and taking samples at a toxic spill that began on Sunday in the north of the country. The Talvivaara metal mine, owned and operated by Talvivaara Mining Company plc, has been leaking water containing high concentrations of nickel and uranium at a rate of between 5000-6000 cubic metres an hour. It is believed that the leak took place when the mine’s waste-water pool was breached on Sunday.

 A friend in Finland writes:

At first, Talvivaara mine was like a dream. A new beginning. A source of employment and tax money for Northern Finland.

This was the level of excitement when the new mine opened in Kainuu, some 550 kilometers from Helsinki. Pekka Perä, an ex-employee of the Finnish mining company Outokumpu had bought the site from his former ... Read more >

Asia Pulp & Paper is planning to build a huge new pulp mill in South Sumatra, Indonesia, although the company is still trying to publicly deny it.  This will reportedly be one of the world’s biggest pulp mills, with a planned production capacity of up to 2 million tonnes per year. APP is already in contact with large machine building companies in order to source the required equipment.

Building new mills without sufficient sources of plantation fibre already being available will be a disaster for the forests, because history has shown that APP’s pulp mills are not only fed by pulp plantations but by rainforests. If this pulp mill is built, it looks set to generate a huge pulp deficit, which the rainforests of Indonesia will be paying for, for years to come.

A new coal fired po... Read more >

Last night I awoke from my rambling slumber to the sound of alarms going off, a high-pitched tone, piercing the darkness in the middle of the night. It was nothing major, just the engineers alarm, so I went back to sleep. A couple of hours later it goes off again and I hear my cabin mate swearing in the darkness as he goes off to inspect what ever it is he’s being warned about a second time.

At 7.30am our daily wake up call rouses us like clockwork, routine is our daily bread and we eat it up eternally. I get up and go out on deck to inspect the day. As per usual, I’m greeted once again by a seemingly endless expanse of blue, an army of waves marching in chaotic order across thousands of miles of ocean.

It’s been days since we last saw land. We are heading out and around the Chagos Archip... Read more >

I felt relieved when I heard Obama’s victory speech this morning, and I particularly resonated with him when he spoke about the future of America’s children.

“We want our children to live in an America that isn’t burnt by debt, that isn’t weakened by inequality, that isn’t threatened by the destructive power of a warming planet,” said Obama during his speech. Crowds burst into applause, while probably millions of other citizens of the world heard his vision.

My relief came with the realisation that Barack Obama shares our vision. When President Obama was elected four years ago, his challenge was to stop the US from going into financial freefall. His challenge is even greater now – he needs to play a more assertive roleinternationally on the issue of climate change and stop us all from clima... Read more >

Maui's dolphin is found only in new Zealand and it's the smallest and most endangered (and in my opinion, the cutest) dolphin in the world. But they're in dire straits and need your help to survive! The New Zealand Government is currently asking for public feedback on a range of options to protect these dolphins, and there are only four days left to have your say -submissions close 5pm Monday 12 November 2012. Read more >

Unfortunately, the Government's proposal to limit gillnet, set net and trawl fishing (the greatest threat to the survival of Maui's dolphins) is much weaker than experts have recommended. Who would have thought that 100% Pure New Zealand would be defying the International Whaling Commission's advice, casting the only two votes against protection of Maui's (against 576 votes in supp...

You're going out. First thing you do is decide what to wear, right?

You decide on your look, you check in the mirror, (maybe change and check in the mirror and again a few times...) and then you're ready. We do the same when we're shopping -- we decide. We can influence what clothes are sold and how they are made to some degree as consumers, but it's when we engage as citizens and activists that the real change happens.

Right now, water around the world is being poisoned by hazardous chemicals coming from industrial sources. One of the main sources of this pollution is the textile industry, which uses a lot of chemicals to make the clothes we wear.

The Detox campaign is focused on getting top clothing brands to take responsibility for the pollution that their products and suppliers make and ... Read more >

The sun has just set on my first day back on board the Greenpeace ship, the Esperanza. It’s been six years since I last sailed on the Esperanza for our Pacific fisheries campaign and I am glad to see how much the campaign has evolved over the years.

So what exactly is the problem out here and why should we care? Basically in this part of the world it comes down to tuna - the world's most popular fish. Canned or served as sashimi, tuna is found the world over and to meet the increasing demand, this fish needs to come from somewhere and unfortunately at all cost. But like with any other resource or living thing we take from our planet there is only so much to go around.

The Western and Central Pacific is home to one of the last relatively healthy tuna grounds and as tuna stocks are depleting ... Read more >