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How One New York Community Is Taking Ocean Destruction Off Its Shelves
What if big tuna brands could learn from every grocery store in America that we, the consumers, demand the protection of our oceans and the rights of seafood workers? In…
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Unlikely Heroes: The Grandparents Standing Up to Save the Last Dugongs
Henoko Bay in Okinawa Japan is a marvel. It is home to 262 endangered species including blue corals, sea turtles and the very rare Japanese dugong. But the Japanese government…
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Supply Chained
The report features new interviews with survivors of trafficking and forced labour in Indonesia who faced abuse on Thai-operated fishing vessels. These ships transferred their tuna and other fish to…
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I’m Vegan — Here’s Why I’m Fighting to Change the Tuna Industry
Dong Yu 1518 was an isolated island in a watery world: a long-distance vessel that had been at sea for months fishing for tuna in the Pacific Ocean. And I was…
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Not Just Tuna: The Truth Behind Chicken of the Sea’s Label
Most cans of tuna on supermarket shelves hold dark secrets: exploited fishermen, dead sharks, and dying oceans. Workers have reported being beaten, abused and forced to work on ships for…
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How I Came to Believe We Need to Change Tuna
This story was originally published by Greenpeace International on September 9, 2015. The moment we heard we were boarding our first fishing boat, I was so overwhelmed with excitement and…
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A Review of the Impact of Seismic Survey Noise on Arctic Wildlife
Firing seismic airguns to find new oil reserves in the Arctic Ocean is ‘alarming’ and could seriously injure whales and other marine life, according to a new scientific review. The…
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Meet a Volunteer: Kaitlyn Organizes for Sustainable Tuna
Meet Kaitlyn, a Greenpeace volunteer from Bowling Green, Ohio. She’s leading a campaign to push her college campus to only serve sustainably caught tuna. Kaitlyn and people like you are…
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Carting Away the Oceans 2015
Our Carting Away the Oceans report, released annually since 2008, identifies which major grocery chains are leaders in sustainable seafood and which are falling behind. The findings are telling. In…
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Greenpeace Canned Tuna Ranking Finds Most Brands Fail Consumers on Ocean Safe Tuna
Washington, DC – In its first-ever US canned tuna ranking, Greenpeace found that the vast majority of the tuna sold in the American market fails to meet fundamental sustainability standards.…