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
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...
"Never trust a Government Minister" advises Government lawyer
This afternoon the Government confirmed what we always thought to be
true that you can't trust what a Minister says. About five years ago a
Minister stated...
Government concedes current regulations not sufficient to match Habitats Directive
St. Kilda - under threat from oil exploration
This afternoon's session in Court was cut short because the
Government's QC, Eleanor Sharpstone, wanted...
