Greenpeace also expresses serious concerns for the welfare of Chebeya’s driver, Mr. Bazana, who remains missing. Floribert Chebeya Bahizire was an outspoken civil society critic and a leading ‘voice for the voiceless’. He showed exemplary courage in his peaceful pursuit of basic human and social rights for Congolese people and through his efforts to strengthen and safeguard… Read More →
Mediterranean Sea – Greenpeace activists took direct action this afternoon to stop bluefin tuna fishing in the Mediterranean. Activists from the Greenpeace ships Rainbow Warrior and the Arctic Sunrise launched high speed inflatable boats in an attempt to submerge one side of a purse seine fishing net to free the trapped tuna. As the action started on… Read More →
Lake Baikal is one of the planet’s greatest lakes and the lake of superlative degrees: the deepest (1,637m), the oldest (about 25 million years), inhabited by the most diverse flora and fauna among fresh-water lakes.
Greenpeace today welcomed President Obama’s sensible and encouraging first step in ensuring that the BP oil spill disaster can never happen again – but the “never” will only last for the next six months while his commission reaches a conclusion. The President went some way towards exposing the root cause of this disaster in highlighting the oil… Read More →
Nestlé, the world’s biggest food and drinks company, announced today that it will stop using products that come from rainforest destruction. The move follows a two month Greenpeace campaign that exposed Nestlé’s use of palm oil in products like KitKat. The expansion of palm oil and pulp plantations is driving the destruction of Indonesia’s rainforests and peatlands… Read More →
Valetta, Malta. The Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior intends to depart tomorrow on a campaign to defend the Mediterranean and halt destructive bluefin tuna fishing operations. As the most visible example of how oceans and fishery management are leading to disaster, Mediterranean bluefin tuna [1] fishing has brought the species to the brink of extinction. Scientists have warned… Read More →
KIEL, Germany, Greenpeace today announced its ‘Arctic Under Pressure Expedition’ in which it will join with leading scientists to investigate the most urgent threats to the Arctic Ocean: ocean acidification, melting of the sea ice due to climate change and the fishing industry’s northward race (1). In the first ocean acidification experiment of its kind (2), Greenpeace… Read More →
AREVA’s radioactive legacy in the desert towns of Niger.