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Trident replacement may be illegal under international law

Posted by darren - 23 November 2006 at 11:45am - Comments

We have obtained an independent, authoritative legal opinion from a top international lawyer indicating that replacing or renewing Britain's Trident nuclear weapons system is inconsistent with international law, putting Tony Blair at risk of breaking the same international disarmament treaty that he says Iran must respect.

Climate campaigners shut down one of the UK's biggest power stations

Posted by darren - 2 November 2006 at 1:00am - Comments

Climate campaigners shit down Didcot

One of Britain's dirtiest power stations has been shut down by climate change campaigners.

Thirty Greenpeace volunteers invaded the Didcot coal-fired power station at 5:30am this morning. They have immobilised the huge conveyor belts that carry coal into the plant by hitting emergency stop buttons and attaching themselves to machinery. A second group is climbing the 200 metre high chimney, and will set up a climate camp at the top.

Time for supermarkets to ban beam trawled seafood

Posted by darren - 5 October 2006 at 10:37am - Comments

'Bycatch' on display in Trafalgar Square - another name for senseless waste and wanton destruction

Last year we challenged leading UK supermarkets to clean up their act by removing destructively fished seafood from their shelves - our new report shows that many of the biggest names on the high street have responded positively, and are leading a revolution that is transforming the entire fishing industry.

Survey results highlight the risk to common dolphins off the southwest coast

Posted by darren - 2 August 2006 at 11:13am - Comments

Dead dolphin discovered by Greenpeace in the English channel whilst monitoring a fleet of French pair trawlers

Intensive trawling during the winter and spring months coincides with relatively high levels of cetacean strandings

The Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society (WDCS) and Greenpeace have released the results from the 2004-2005 winter surveys of cetaceans and pelagic (mid-water) trawls in the western approaches of the English Channel.

Japan wins St Kitts declaration vote at International Whaling Commission

Posted by darren - 18 June 2006 at 1:54pm - Comments
Minke whale being flensed aboard a Japanese factory whaling ship

Greenpeace vows to return to the Southern Ocean to oppose Japan's continued 'scientific hunt'

Japan and the whaling lobby have finally won a simple majority vote at the 58th meeting of International Whaling Commission (IWC), held on the Caribbean island of St Kitts in June. 33 countries voted in favour of a resolution called the "St Kitts declaration" claiming that the "IWC has failed to meet its obligations under the terms of the International Convention on the Regulation of Whaling (ICRW)" and declaring its commitment to "normalizing the functions of the IWC" - in other words, returning the organisation to its original hunting mandate.

Whale's fate hangs in the balance

Posted by darren - 14 June 2006 at 5:27pm - Comments

Taking direct action to protect whales in the Southern Ocean

Whalers poised to seize control of the International Whaling Commission

International Whaling Commission 58th meeting
St. Kitts & Nevis, June 16th-20th 2006

Bottom trawling - strip-mining the seas

Posted by darren - 7 June 2006 at 11:57am - Comments

Wanton destruction: bycatch trawled on the Dogger Bank, North Sea, August 2004

Greenpeace calls for global marine reserves on World Oceans Day

As the kick-off to the football world cup approaches, how's this for a key pre-match statistic? Every four seconds, marine life in an area of ocean floor the size of ten football fields is wiped out by high seas bottom trawlers.

For sale - the contents of the world's oceans

Posted by darren - 18 May 2006 at 11:53am - Comments
Brussels Seafood Expo is the world's largest - 10 exhibition halls promoting excessive consumption

by Oliver Knowles, Oceans campaigner

Earlier this year I attended the Brussels Seafood Expo - the world's largest seafood and fishing exhibition. Held in 10 enormous exhibition halls over 3 days, retailers, processors, fishermen, exporters, importers and many more from around the globe come to buy, sell, talk about and eat massive quantities of seafood. And it's quite an experience.

Sea power in the corridors of power

Posted by darren - 12 May 2006 at 3:33pm - Comments

 Greenpeace brought oceans campaigners and supermarket bosses onto MPs' home turf

At a parliamentary reception organised by Greenpeace, supermarket bosses and environmental campaigners came together with politicians to discuss the crisis facing our oceans, and although there were differing views about what was required, everyone agreed on one thing: action needs to be taken, and taken quickly.

Stranger than fiction - the giant squid

Posted by darren - 8 May 2006 at 6:51pm - Comments

The giant squid - never seen alive by human eyes

Looming out of the inky blackness of the deep sea waters - an enormous tentacled creature is locked in a life or death struggle with a mighty sperm whale. This classic Jules Verne-like image of a legendary sea-monster is still our most common image of one of the least known denizens of the deep - the giant squid. Oceans Campaigner Alejandro writes from the Esperanza.

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