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
Whales still need special protection
The history of whaling in the 20th century demonstrates clearly that whales need special protection from trade pressures. The relentless erosion of whale...
Whales and CITES
Greenpeace briefing Publication date: March 2000 Summary Japan and Norway, the only two countries still killing whales in defiance of the International...
Japan pushes commercial whaling into the new Millennium
Commercial whaling has decimated whale population after whale population. The development of new technology in the first part of the twentieth century, such as...
The stepping stones towards a Global Whale Sanctuary are already being laid
In 1979, three years before the historic moratorium decision, the
IWC agreed to an Indian Ocean sanctuary. Fifteen years later, in 1994,
Greenpeace was...
"Not tonight, I've got a headache" threat to endangered species?
No New Oil
Yesterday the Government suggested we need not worry about the
impact of oil development because seismic testing was only likely to
give...
