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What is whaling?

Page | October 9, 2007 at 8:54

Iceland resumes commercial whaling

Feature story | October 31, 2006 at 18:00

In Iceland, the whale watching industry contributes more to the national economy than commercial whaling did before it was put on hold in the '80s. Yet now after 17 years, Iceland has officially resumed commercial whaling; 26 nations delivered...

Norway to Resume Trade in Whale Blubber

Media release | January 15, 2001 at 18:00

Greenpeace strongly criticized the Norwegian government for lifting the ban on exports of whale products earlier today. Just last year at the Convention on the Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), over 2000 delegates from around the world voted...

Whales in Peril: More Whales are Lost to Norwegian and Japanese Whaling than in Beachings

Media release | August 3, 2002 at 18:00

Though the public is understandably disturbed by recent beachings in Cape Cod, the situation cannot compare to the largest threat to whales: commercial whaling.

Protection Money

Publication | November 23, 2010 at 3:00

How industry expansion plans would use climate funds to bankroll deforestation and undermine President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s commitment to low-carbon development.

Historic Indonesian forest protection deal at risk from industry

Blog by Laura K. | November 23, 2010

Image: Will Rose / Greenpeace Norway and Indonesia are about to make history. A 1 billion USD forest protection deal between these two countries could help set Indonesia on a low-carbon development pathway and become a positive ...

Rainbow Warrior ordered out of Indonesia - rainforest destruction allowed to stay

Blog by Bex | October 25, 2010 3 comments

Being a part of a Greenpeace ship tour is never boring. Generally, you expect the unexpected, and then you're surprised. But even by ship tour standards, the Rainbow Warrior's recent 'tour' of Indonesia was an interesting one. It...

Oil and ice

Blog by Frida Bengtsson | February 28, 2011 2 comments

On the evening of February 17th, the Icelandic containership Godafoss ran aground in the Hvaler national park in southern Norway and started leaking heavy oil. One of the biggest challenges of the cleanup operations has been to...

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