Now you see it... Cod caught in the North Sea about to be discarded Adapted from a blog post by Blogpost by Willie Mackenzie, Greenpeace UK Discards are disgusting. No-one with any sense can support the catching,...
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...
I’m elated to share with you a major win for the oceans! After eight months of pressuring Costco to improve their seafood policies - I’m overjoyed to tell you that the wholesale giant announced a new policy aimed at helping to...
By the time you read this, I'll be at the head office of Princes in Liverpool where a frenzy of sharks is demanding an end (a fin-ish?) to the dreadful fishing methods that kill other marine species like sharks, rays and even...
Today, the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries announced that they are ending this year’s Antarctic whaling season early, and have called the fleet back to port. This is fantastic news, and not a moment too soon...
Today’s announcement confirming that Japanese whalers are pulling out of the Southern Ocean early this season is great news for the whales. It’s also rewarding news for the many organisations, governments and people around the world...
Yesterday, at an obscure United Nations meeting, some distressing news came from a gathering of policy-makers, scientists and diplomats in Rome. The Food and Agricultural Organisation is convening in Italy and yesterday put forward...
Karli Thomas, oceans campaigner with Greenpeace since 2005, discusses the worldwide decline of tuna and other fish stocks on Radio New Zealand . Click below to listen. Take Action: Join the call for a global...
On December 22, 2010 - the Fisheries Agency of Japan (FAJ) acknowledged and publicly apologised for embezzlement within the whaling industry . An official from the powerful agency gave a 90 degree bow of apology on national...
Hello from Taiwan! Below is the English translation of Taiwan Fisheries Agency’s response to Greenpeace’s protest which exposed a Flag of Convenience (FOC) fish carrier Lung Yuin in Kaoshiung port that is breaching Taiwan’s laws.
You know things are dire when this happens ... the long running annual ‘Extreme Boats Open Tuna Tournament’ off Whakatane has this year been rebranded the ‘ Extreme Boats 20K-4 Ways Tournament .’ That’s because, unlike in the past, the...
A dictionary definition of 'bearing witness' reads: to show by your existence that something is true. This seems to me to be only part of the story. Bearing witness is one of the founding principles of Greenpeace, up there with...
When actions are principally correct all the doors and weather windows open. Our stop in Green Island, has been a confirmation of that. The monsoon is wicked off Taiwan and has not stopped blowing this year and Green Island,...
Kia ora folks, I'm Jo (or JoJo, as the team call me), and I'm currently onboard the Rainbow Warrior in Taiwan. My role here is to coordinate the eight 'Open Boat' days that we're having, where the public come to visit the ship and take...
The ship has already left windy and rainy Keelung and we just arrived at the second stop of the Ocean Defenders East Asia tour , Su-ao in eastern Taiwan. Suao is the second largest tuna fishery port in Taiwan. At 7am the following...
Last week we took the office staff from Greenpeace's new office in Taipei on the 3 hour train trip to Taiwan's eastern port of Hualien. The Rainbow Warrior was there doing some last minute maintenance before the start of the Ocean...
The new year has started with a big bang for Greenpeace and the oceans over here in East Asia and the Pacific. There's a pile of coinciding historical events including the 40th anniversary of Greenpeace, the final voyage of the...
A Yellowfin tuna lies on the ground in Honiara's market. The feet of a local child are seen alongside. © Greenpeace / Paul Hilton Last week's meeting of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission ended as a sad day for the...
Fishermen using the sustainable " pole and line " fishing method to catch skipjack tuna It was a huge disappointment to see industrial fishing nations beat down small Pacific island countries today- the nations struggling to save...
Greenpeace Australia Pacific Oceans Campaigner, Duncan Williams, reports from Hawaii Right now, Honolulu is host to the annual meeting of the Western and Central Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) – the international body responsible...
Sari "Blondfin" Tolvanen, coordinator of Greenpeace's campaign to defend the Pacific Ocean. Retailers have a major role in protecting the world’s oceans - they sell the majority of the world’s caught fish to the public. One might...
Normally when you email someone at the Ministry of Fisheries it's an email address like but for the submissions on the Ministry's latest proposal they've asked us to send them to ...
Last week, a global team of Greenpeace campaigners arrived in Honolulu to attend the 7th annual meeting of the western Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) meeting. The WCPFC is the international treaty body that manages the...
You know that colourful tin of tuna you drop into your supermarket basket every week? Ever wonder what’s in it? Probably not; in a matter of decades, tuna has gone from being exotic mystery to an almost generic foodstuff, as ubiquitous...
It was great to see our campaign to save Pacific tuna get a huge boost in just a few hours last Saturday. I spent the day on our stall at the Grey Lynn Festival which was was flooded by people keen to help our campaign and excited...
Southern bluefin tuna quota - it's a crime Exhibit A. The southern bluefin tuna. It's an incredible species, a top ocean predator, once abundant yet now precariously rare - it's listed as a critically endangered species by the...
Hi. It’s Chris Hay reporting from Taiwan. I’m usually based in the New Zealand office but right now I’m working with my Greenpeace colleagues in the Taiwan office who are campaigning hard to make tuna fishing sustainable. Fishing is...
Most people think of tuna in terms of how it tastes – whether it be raw in sushi and sashimi or from a can in a tuna sandwich or salad. But very few realise that tuna is being overfished to the point that some species have reached the ...
Explore our new interactive map - with videos and slideshows explaining why our oceans need Marine Reserves now. 2010 is the International Year of Biodiversity . It is also the year when international agreements and meetings have...
It’s hard to tell if it is a simple faux pas or a grim prophetic view of what’s to come. Philippine media outlet Sun Star reported recently a new fishing vessel acquired under a joint venture between a local fishing tycoon and...
The Seafood Industry Association's boss, Peter Bodeker is right on one thing: Good reputations are hard to earn and easy to lose. And it's for exactly that reason that the fishing industry should be appalled at the environmental...
Our Pacific Political Advisor Seni Nabou reports back from the first few days of meetings at the UN’s Convention for Biological Diversity (CBD), in Nagoya, Japan. As a Pacific Islander, attending these big world conferences can be...
The main meeting room at the UN Convention on Biological Diversity in Nagoya, Japan. Hello there. I am Nathalie- an oceans policy advisor at Greenpeace, and I have the privilege of leading the Greenpeace team here at CBD COP10.
In the opening ceremony of the CBD here in Nagoya, Japan, Japanese Foreign Minister Matsumoto (also chair of the conference) reminded delegates that biodiversity is the legacy we will leave our children. Greenpeace is here at CBD COP10...
I’ve just returned from a technical meeting of the Pacific Tuna Commission – but, actually, I want to tell you about something that happened in 2009. This time last year, I was on the Greenpeace ship Esperanza, in the Pacific Ocean,...
This will be the first blog Toru and I have written together, as up until recently our heavy bail restrictions have meant that we could not be in the same room or even talk to each other without a lawyer present. The verdict in...
When you get a bit close to a subject, you get geeky. Before you know it you are scoffing at how other people could possible not know something, because you do. Yet of course it's true that the vast majority of the public are very...
Let your imagination take you to the Antarctic: a cold, windy and inhospitable region inhabited by some of our planet’s most unique and spectacular living creatures. The Antarctic region’s Southern Ocean is one of the most pristine...
Life in the ocean is not as serene as it seems according to two news reports this week. A marine scientist at Auckland university, who has been eavesdropping on fish says he has proof that they “talk” to each other. Meanwhile, in...
The town of Sidi R’bat on Morocco’s Atlantic coast is where the biblical Jonah is said to have been vomited up by a whale. Less than 100km from that spot, something has been going on this week that is again enough to make a whale sick...
As the International Whaling Commission (IWC)'s annual meeting begins in Morocco, there has been a flurry of media coverage over a possible 'deal' or 'compromise'. Often the details, and sometimes the central points , can get lost...
It was interesting watching the enthusiasm of Japanese pro-whaling demonstrators outside the Tokyo court which was hearing charges against New Zealand anti-whaling campaigner Pete Bethune recently. The key theme of their protests...
So, what's your price to sell out the whales? Some brown envelopes stuffed with cash? A nice big cheque for development aid? All-expenses paid trips to exotic locations? Or some dubious entertainment, including 'good girls'? ...
The vast majority of the world’s internationally traded seafood moves by sea. Many unfortunate fish find themselves ripped out of the ocean only to be gutted, frozen, shoveled into containers, and sent plowing across the top of it in...
Like most people, there are times I feel helpless about saving the whales as I am not a politician, scientist or a crew member on the Greenpeace boats. But I am a voice, among many others, that can make a difference. The future of...
There’s been much talk of how to save the whales lately, with a lot of the debate revolving around an International Whaling Commission (IWC) proposal which would legitimise some commercial whaling and allow hunting to continue in the...
Dear John How we hate to write so we’re coming to visit. Around the country people are signing petitions and sending you mail calling on your Government to vote against any proposal which legitimises commercial whaling and allows...
If you’ve been able to dig your way out of mountains of ( Nestle-free , naturally) Easter chocolate you may just have noticed this rather fine piece of direct action in Rotterdam. Our activists intercepted a shipment of whale meat –...
Greenpeace NZ oceans campaigner Karli Thomas sums up the state of the whales campaign.
Remember the good old days when we tried to save the whales? Well those days are back, and there's a shirt to prove it. While the whales have never been completely safe there has, at least, been a moratorium on commercial whaling...
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