Blog: Oceans

Dead dolphins in the English Channel

Publication date: 
7 June, 2004

A report by WDCS for Greenpeace

Summary

A joint cetacean survey by Greenpeace and the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society (WDCS) took place aboard the MV Esperanza during January-March 2004. During this expedition, which mainly surveyed the Western Approaches of the English Channel, a total of 12 dead dolphins of which 10 were identified as common dolphins (Delphinus delphis) were found floating in the water. These dolphins were likely to be the victims of by-catch in pelagic trawl fisheries.

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Article tagged as: bycatch, cetaceans, reports, trawling, WDCS, whaling

'Start' ship recycling in Britain

Publication date: 
21 March, 2007

Publication date: March 2004

Summary
Greenpeace has been campaigning on the issue of shipbreaking for almost 10 years. The campaign has centred on scrapping yards in Bangladesh, Pakistan and in particular the yard in Alang, India. Alang is situated in Gujarat province, in the North West corner of India, 300 miles North of Mumbai on India's North West coast.

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The Net Effect?

Publication date: 
11 August, 2009

A review of cetacean bycatch in pelagic trawls and other fisheries in the north-east Atlantic

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Which way - whaling or whale watching?

Publication date: 
11 August, 2009

A brief summary of tourism in Iceland

Publication date: September 2003

Summary
This media briefing outlines the development of the whale watching industry in Iceland, and the role it plays in the overall tourism industry.

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Article tagged as: iceland, reports, whaling

Sellafield's radioactive salmon

Posted by bex - 21 May 2003 at 8:00am - Comments

Radioactive waste from Sellafield has been found in Scottish farmed salmon sold in major British supermarkets. Tests commissioned by Greenpeace revealed traces of radioactive waste in packets of fresh and smoked salmon.

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The tests, conducted independently by Southampton University's oceanography centre, found low levels Technetium-99 (Tc-99) in farmed Scottish salmon sold at Sainsbury's, Tesco, Asda, Safeway, Waitrose and Marks & Spencer.


Tc-99 is a byproduct of Magnox fuel reprocessing. Dr David Santillo, a scientist at Greenpeace's research laboratories at Exeter University, said: "Tc-99 should not be there at all. It is inexplicable yet significant. Scottish salmon is marketed as something that comes from a pristine environment."

Article tagged as: north sea, nuclear power, oceans, radioactivity, reactor safety, salmon, sellafield

Julia Sawalha interview

Posted by bex - 20 May 2002 at 12:03pm - Comments
Stop Esso: Julia Sawalha

Stop Esso: Julia Sawalha

Why particularly Esso?
They make 15.6 billion dollars a year in profit and they are not investing one dollar of that into clean renewable energy and the fact that they invested in President Bush's campaign and as a result of that Bush has backed out of the Kyoto Protocol is deeply disturbing to me. That they are sabotaging any international action on global warming is very frightening. I think that they are being a big bully and I think it's time we stood up to them.

You know I think as an individual you can feel really helpless in the face of environmental issues, I think as long as people know what is going on, this is the kind of campaign, like you can hear people beeping behind, they can really feel like they are doing something.

What would you say to motorists who are still buying from Esso?
I'd say don't put a tiger in your tank

What would your message to Esso be?
Be afraid, be very afraid.

Article tagged as: climate change, julia sawalha, kyoto protocol, oil, renewable energy, stop esso

Comments on Japanese rebuttal

Publication date: 
29 October, 2001

Greenpeace comments on the standard letter sent out by the Japanese Embassy in response to letters from the public protesting at Japan's so-called 'scientific' whaling

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Greenpeace guide to the Great whales

Publication date: 
29 October, 2001

In total, 1.5 million whales were killed by commercial whalers in the fifty years from 1925 to 1975, the year that Greenpeace began its long running campaign to stop commercial whaling. Many of the world's whale populations had been taken to the brink of extinction and this massive destruction was only stopped when the International Whaling Commission (IWC) imposed a moratorium on all commercial whaling in 1986. Of the nine countries still whaling when the moratorium decision was taken, seven had ceased by 1990, but two countries, Japan and Norway, did not.

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Article tagged as: IWC, japan, reports, whaling

What is OSPAR?

Publication date: 
30 May, 2001

Greenpeace media briefing

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Article tagged as: oceans, OSPAR, reports, reprocessing, sellafield

Whale watching and Caribbean island tourism

Publication date: 
23 July, 2001

The Global whale watching industry

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Article tagged as: IWC, reports, whale watching, whaling
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