Defend oceans
We are totally dependent on our oceans. But, we're damaging them on a scale unimaginable to most people. Destructive fishing, polluting industries and climate change are threatening the survival of whole marine ecosystems, as species are driven towards extinction as their habitats are destroyed.
Campaign updates
Japanese government comes under diplomatic pressure to end whaling
London 17 January 2006: 17 governments today made a formal diplomatic protest against Japanese whaling. The protest, known as a 'demarche', was...
Recipe for disaster
Supermarkets' Insatiable Appetite for Seafood
Summary
This is a Greenpeace study of UK supermarkets, ranking them by their seafood policies. ASDA comes...
Cetacean bycatch and pelagic trawling
The problem of bycatch
Summary
The biggest threat to marine ecosystems globally is destructive and unsustainable fishing practices. An estimated 23% of...
Iceland ends annual whaling hunt
Iceland has now killed the last minke whale in its 2005 'scientific' whaling programme. Their self-imposed quota was 39 minke whales and as they have...
Japan vows to fight for a return to commercial whaling
As the International Whaling Commission (IWC) meeting ends in Korea, anti-whaling nations emerge victorious. The commission firmly rejected the Japanese...
