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Greenpeace Africa to Senegal’s Ministry of Fisheries and Maritime Economy: Finding legal loopholes to grant vessel licences is inherently unethical
The Ministry of Fisheries and Maritime Economy of Senegal issued apress release on 12 October 2020 and rejected the key findings in Greenpeace Africa's report "Seasick: as COVID-19 locks down West Africa, its waters remain open to plunder"
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Cutting The Hand That Feeds: Kenya’s Government Plans to Shift Farmers Out of Farming
Kenya’s government and the Ministry of Agriculture want to shift farmers out of agriculture by commercialising Kenya's agriculture sector through a new agricultural policy, the agricultural sector transformation and growth strategy
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Sasol’s pockets swell while SA’s air quality suffers
Sasol, South Africa's second largest emitter of greenhouse gases, received a R6.5 billion boost in profits last year as a result of their exemption from carbon tax
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Multinational fishing industries plunder West Africa’s ocean as artisanal sector is locked out by COVID-19
a new Greenpeace report, exposes how the same governments have kept enabling systematic plunder of the oceans by foreign fishing vessels and the Fishmeal and Fish Oil (FMFO) industry.
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Global SO2 emissions drop in 2019 – Greenpeace global ranking
JAnthropogenic sulfur dioxide (SO2) emissions fell globally in 2019, reveals a new analysis of NASA satellite data by Greenpeace India and the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA).
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US Senators Urge Trump to Intervene in Kenya Plastics Saga
62 lawmakers from the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives are calling on President Trump to take a leadership role on plastic pollution by opposing the export of more plastic waste to Kenya and supporting Kenya’s actions to curb the production of wasteful single-use products.
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“All Senegalese feel the Burn” – Greenpeace Africa reacts to the tragedy between an industrial fishing vessel and an artisanal fishing pirogue in West Africa
A clash between the industrial fishing vessel "Soleil 7” and an artisanal fishing pirogue from Mbour had caused injury to the invoked mariners and damaged the pirogue's equipment
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Greenpeace Reacts to Reports of Oil in Pregnant Whale Carcass in Mauritius
Last weekend Mauritian media reported that a Forensic Science Laboratory had discovered traces of oil (hydrocarbons) during an autopsy of a pregnant melon-headed whale carcass, conducted to determine the cause of death of 50 whales and dolphins.
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Illegal giant palm oil plantation flattening indigenous people’s rainforest and threatening endangered wildlife in Cameroon
llegal clear-cutting of ancestral lands of the Indigenous Bagyeli people has begun in a biodiversity hotspot in coastal Cameroon
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Analysis Exposes American Chemistry Council’s “Chemical Recycling” Fantasy
A new Greenpeace report, Deception by the Numbers, examines 52 projects touted by the American Chemistry Council (ACC) as “chemical” or “advanced” recycling, finding that many are either not viable or misleadingly promoted as recycling
