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Corruption in the Spanish fishing industry

Greenpeace have exposed massive and destructive corruption in the Spanish fishing industry - this is driving overfishing, trashing marine ecosystems and...
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Southampton Greenpeace joins the YouTube revolution!

A brief and very recent history - on Saturday I went to London for a Greenpeace 'Skillshare' and came back particularly inspired by one workshop which covered...
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David Cameron is confused about the CFP - help by writing to him

Fisheries ideas Cameron needs to hear

You may have seen information about the EU's Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) and our campaign to have it reformed. Currently the CFP makes overfishing worse by...
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I recognise that handwriting...

A few days ago, an envelope landed on the doormat. Nothing unusual about that, except that this one was addressed to me in my own handwriting. Now, I know that...
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Our banner at Frankfurt Motor Show and VW's counter protest!

Happy birthday to us, happy birthday to us...

Yay - Greenpeace is 40 today! There's a great little film on YouTube showing that corporate types may not always so happy about our campaign wins and that...
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Green Arch, Greenpeace 40th Birthday, Glastonbury, festival 2011

What can you get Greenpeace for its birthday?

If you don't already know, Greenpeace turns 40 on September 15th - as I sit here typing, that's a mere 6 days away and is a date that will mark 40 years since...
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A dead Sumatran tiger, found trapped on an APP concession, is carried away by fo

Why the Barbie Hunt was so important

Some weeks back you may remember a lot going on around mysterious chainsaw Barbies popping up all over the place - in trees, up lamp-posts, on bandstands, by...
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Why we have to act against new oil exploration

Though a huge industry, this might seem simple, and on such a huge scale it is - fossil fuels cause climate change, we need to tackle climate change, so we...
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A loggerhead turtle swims towards a FAD belonging to a purse seiner ship in the

Epic Win!

Yup, after a lot of campaigning, many thousands of emails and some mysterious stickers, John West have finally committed to change from FADs (destructive Fish...
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VW: The Dark Side

Jedi training use against VW you will...

Get your Jedi training to use against VW until it stops trying to block action on climate change. What does the training involve? Visit here for an example (...
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VW The Dark Side

Volkswagen have joined the dark Side

Volkswagen have joined the Dark Side and are opposing key environmental laws. Visit here to become a campaign Jedi!
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Lobbying my MP for Greenpeace

Spotlight on Andrew Blake, a newly-trained Greenpeace political lobbyist I’ve been a Greenpeace financial supporter ever since I started earning a salary 21-...
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John West still John Worst

I saw the sticker in the photo on some tins of John West tuna in Tesco, Eastleigh today. Anyone know how it got there? Maybe it's related to this campaign....
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So, what did Chris Huhne say?

As you may have seen from the previous post, members of several NGOs visiting Chris Huhne last Friday to ask him a range of questions about the Energy Bill,...
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Eastleigh - the big climate reconnection

This afternoon, Eastleigh constituents representing Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, Eastleigh Transition Network and Christian Aid (under the umbrella of the...
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Environmental Rock 2011

Another fine event at The Hobbit - this year we were there with the Go Beyond Oil campaign and Rainbow Warrior III info (rattle that tin...). One last batch of...
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Just one company to go...

All the UK supermarkets have pledged to stop using FADs, the most destructive fishing methods, and move towards more sustainable practices, and so has Princes...
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Projecting our message to Cairn oil in Disko Bay

Southampton schools visit Greenpeace in droves...

Last Thursday 10th March, Southampton Greenpeace, along with a variety of other green organisations, attended the Upper Shirley Learning Community’s Green Fair...
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John Worst: Killing Sharks

Princes finally see the light, but who's next?

Great news - Princes has (finally) got the message that bycatch destroys marine life and has announced that it will clean up its tinned tuna by ending the use...
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We put the yellow pod on Chevron's anchor chain to stop their drill ship

Our legal challenge to deepwater drilling

Yesterday something big happened - very big. Having filed papers to the High Court back in November, Greenpeace UK finally got the go-ahead to mount a legal...
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