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Campaign update: what's hiding in your tuna sandwich?
by Simon Clydesdale, biodiversity campaigner
This time last month we launched our new tuna league table to demand supermarkets and big brands, such as Princes, improve their policies for tinned tuna.
We'd planned a range of local public engagement events, alongside other activities, but somehow between the threat of a Greenpeace campaign and Hugh's series of documentaries, the market has radically changed.
Princes, however, remains bottom of our league table. Despite emails to customers assuring us all of its commitments to sustainability, Princes still relies on one of the worst fishing methods available for its tinned tuna. Fish aggregating devices (Fads) used with purse seine nets lead to huge amounts of bycatch – that means endangered sharks and other marine creatures being caught and killed in tuna nets.
Meanwhile, some Greenpeace supporters have noticed some fishy warning stickers on Princes tuna in supermarkets such as Asda and Morrisons.
Get active: if you'd like to get more informed about the fish you can eat, then please order a copy of our free Fish Guide.
Get active: If you'd like to find out more about what's happening locally, then please contact your local network coordinator.
Get active: If you've not already done so, please email Princes now.
Campaign update: Go Beyond Oil and back to the Energy Bill
by Louise Hutchins, climate campaigner
Last October we launched the Go Beyond Oil campaign. Local groups and networks across the UK organised public engagement events to help pressure MPs to transform the 'dirty' Energy Bill and to live up to their promises to be the greenest government ever.
The Energy Bill is currently being debated in the House of Lords, and Greenpeace will be supporting various amendments to the bill when it enters the House of Commons later in the year, amendments we'd really like your MP to support.
Get active: If you'd like to get involved in the high street work, then please contact your local network coordinator.
Free training: : If you'd like to lobby your MP as the Energy Bill makes it way through parliament, then please contact us to receive more information.
Rainbow Warrior III fundraising
The Rainbow Warrior has confronted environmental crime for 21 years, but now she's worn out, struggling and needing constant repairs, so Greenpeace needs to raise the money to pay for a new Rainbow Warrior.
Several local groups and networks have already started organising public engagement and fundraising events. We'd like to invite all of you to brainstorm creative ideas about to local opportunities.
Get active: : If you've got some great ideas you'd like to share, then please contact your local coordinator or better yet, please post those ideas as comments to the Rainbow Warrior fundraising blog.
Skillshares and other training events
There are Political Lobbying Training events planned in Peterborough (Feb/Mar), Liverpool (Mar), Belfast (tbc), Bournemouth and monthly events in London, so please contact us to receive more information.
Greenpeace Europe
Greenpeace UK relies on the network of 80+ local groups and networks, perhaps involving 1500 regularly active supporters (hopefully including you).
Across Europe there are well over 350 local groups and networks involving perhaps 6,000 to 8,000 Greenpeace supporters. If you'd like to get an overview of quite what this looks like then please check out this rather nifty looking map.
Thank you for all of your hard work - you rock.
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