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Defending Pacific tuna in Taiwan

Posted by jamie - 31 January 2011 at 4:07pm - Comments

Ron with activist alongside the MV Lung Yuin in Taiwan

While in the UK we're focusing on Princes and the consumer end of the tuna trade, in Taiwan the Rainbow Warrior has been exposing the problems with tuna fishing. Last week, the crew prevented a fish cargo ship from leaving port...

Article tagged as: illegal fishing, oceans, overfishing, pacific ocean, taiwan, tuna

Sales for 'sustainable' seafood soar, but is the problem shifting elsewhere?

Posted by jamie - 18 January 2011 at 5:28pm - Comments

It's been a good week for seafood sales. The Guardian reports that supermarkets have been doing brisk business in "sustainable seafood", particularly those featured in the various Big Fish Fight shows on Channel 4.

Article tagged as: big fish fight, bycatch, discards, oceans, supermarkets, sustainable seafood, tinned tuna, tuna

Princes changes tuna labels but not its policies

Posted by jamie - 14 January 2011 at 6:44pm - Comments

So, what's been going on since our tinned tuna league table was released on an expectant world at the weekend? Quite a bit as it happens and already you've helped us score another small but vital victory over the worst of the tuna companies, Princes.

Article tagged as: fish fight, princes, tesco, tinned tuna, tuna, tuna league table, videos

Tesco escapes last place in new tinned tuna league table with spectacular policy u-turn

Posted by jamie - 9 January 2011 at 10:40am - Comments

Tesco was bottom of our tinned tuna league table before a nifty u-turn

Update, 9 March 2011: both Princes and Asda have committed to removing tuna caught using fish aggregating devices in combination with purse seine nets from their supply chains by 2014. Read more >>

Having got wind of our new tinned tuna league table (see below) and the fact that it was going to come last, Tesco has done a spectacular u-turn. After being the subject of a Greenpeace investigation, it has radically improved its policy on the fishing methods it will permit for its own-brand tuna.

Article tagged as: bycatch, fads, oceans, princes, purse seining, reports, successes, tesco, tinned tuna, tuna, tuna league table

Get ready for the Big Fish Fight

Posted by jamie - 7 January 2011 at 11:24am - Comments

Hugh and Jamie during filming of the Fish Fight series

Hugh and Jamie during filming of Fish Fight outside Westminster

We're only a few days in to 2011, but already this year is shaping up to be a big one in our campaign to end the plunder of the oceans.

Article tagged as: aquaculture, big fish fight, bycatch, channel 4, discards, hugh fearnley-whittingstall, oceans, tinned tuna

EU fishing quotas are about to get a bit more exciting (if that's possible)

Posted by jamie - 13 December 2010 at 6:41pm - Comments

German agriculture minister Ilse Aigner walks past Greenpeace's trawler in Brussels, Belgium

Every year, it’s the same. Despite evidence and advice from marine biologists that really there aren't plenty more fish in the sea, European fishing quotas are set way above what's required to halt and reverse the downward spiral of many commercial species. As Willie pointed out this time two years ago, it's a pantomime farce which comes along like clockwork in the week before Christmas. But that may be about to change.

Article tagged as: brussels, CFP, common fisheries policy, dirfect actions, EU, oceans, overfishing

Are forests in the UK for sale?

Posted by jamie - 6 December 2010 at 6:11pm - Comments

Image by Lee Jordan

The government recently announced it is considering selling off large areas of woodlands. Forested areas in the UK are important for local biodiversity, and while Greenpeace campaigns are focused on tropical rainforests, the Woodland Trust is all about our own trees. Guest blogger Kaye Brennan from the Trust explains what's going on in our own backyard.

For the latest news on the proposed forest sell-off, visit the Woodland Trust's website.

First of all, let me say that yes, we are worried, and no, we're not campaigning... yet!

Shocking news burst our peaceful Sunday bubble recently, as the Guardian and several other newspapers announced that Defra were considering the mass sale of at least half of the public forest estate.

Several petitions were swiftly started, between them gathering signatures from hundreds of thousands of concerned people and they are still growing in numbers. Online, views were made clear in the hundreds of comments left on articles, blog posts, Facebook pages and tweets.

Article tagged as: forests, politics, UK, woodland trust

Amazon deforestation drops, but doesn’t stop

Posted by jamie - 3 December 2010 at 12:12pm - Comments

You'll no doubt be pleased to hear that deforestation rates in the Amazon have fallen, according to figures from the government of Brazil. The National Institute for Space Research reported yesterday that just 6,451km2 of rainforest were felled between August 2009 and July 2010, a drop of 14 per cent on the previous year.

Article tagged as: amazon, brazil, deforestation, forest code, forests, rainforests, REDD

Forest trasher APP goes for another spin in the greenwash cycle

Posted by jamie - 2 December 2010 at 6:45pm - Comments

Exposing the real story of APP and deforestation in Indonesia

Forest campaigner Daniela Montalto assesses APP's latest attempts to convince everyone that it really does like trees. Honestly.

It didn't take too long for the notorious rainforest destroyer Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) to make another desperate attempt to distract from the facts.

Article tagged as: APP, deforestation, forests, george monbiot, indonesia, rainforests, sinar mas

Could we change time this Friday?

Posted by jamie - 2 December 2010 at 10:45am - Comments

Daniel Vockins and Maddy Carroll get ready to present 9,000 letters written by Lighter Later supporters to their MPs at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

Daniel Vockins from the 10:10 Lighter Later campaign explains how a simple change of the clocks can have a host of benefits, including reducing emissions.

Everybody loves the sunshine. But every year we set our clocks so that we get less of it in our lives, sleeping through the sunlit mornings while we use expensive, polluting electric lights to keep out the dark nights. Lighter Later is a campaign to brighten our days by changing the clocks so we are awake when the sun is out.

The idea is simple: we shift the clocks forward by one hour throughout the entire year. We would still go forward in spring and back in autumn, but we would have moved an hour of daylight from the morning to the evening, when more of us are awake to enjoy it.

Article tagged as: 10:10, climate change, daylight savings bill, lighter later, politics

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