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Baby fish are hooked on plastic junk food

Posted by alice.hunter — 3 June 2016 at 11:15am - Comments
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Perch larvae that has ingested microplastic particles

Today brought yet more evidence that putting plastic in the ocean is probably not the best idea humankind has ever had.

Article tagged as: microbeads, microplastics, oceans

Fishing for plankton is ridiculous.

Posted by Willie — 1 June 2016 at 5:04pm - Comments
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Plankton is justifiably outraged.

In the ocean, plankton is food.

There are two types of plankton – tiny plants (phytoplankton) and tiny animals (zooplankton).

Zooplankton includes some eggs and larvae of things like fish and crabs, as well as some minute animals that feed on phytoplankton. That makes them the first link in any food chain, and the basis for all of the ocean’s food webs.

Article tagged as: aquaculture, arctic, climate change, copepods, farmed fish, Ferrero rocher, fishing, fishmeal, Food Standards Agency, herring SpongeBob SquarePants, krill, mackerel, ocean acidification, oceans, plankton, pollock, whales

Three ways you can tell Sainsbury's to drop John West!

Posted by alice.hunter — 31 May 2016 at 5:11pm - Comments
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John West tuna is caught using unsustainable fishing devices

We’ve sent thousands of emails, hundreds of tweets and inundated their Customer Service phone line with calls - but Sainsbury’s still won’t speak out against unsustainable fishing.

Article tagged as: fads, john west, oceans, sainsbury's, tuna

Behind The Lens

Posted by MeenaRajput — 31 May 2016 at 2:44pm - Comments

Photographer, Will Rose, joined Greenpeace activists on an expedition to the Indian Ocean to remove dozens of destructive Fish Aggregating Devices. These FADs kill endangered marine life including sharks and turtles, but despite this, leading tuna brands John West and Thai Union continue to use them. Since our campaign launched, Tesco and Waitrose have threatened to remove John West from their shelves unless they clean up their act. 

Article tagged as: actions, destructive, Documenting, esperanza, fads, Fish aggregating devices, fishing, greenpeace, indian ocean, john west, oceans, Photographer, sharks, ships, sustainable fishing, thai union, tuna, turtles

Greenpeace volunteers confront destructive fishing

Posted by Alix FOSTER VAN... — 23 May 2016 at 6:00pm - Comments
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A Greenpeace activist blockading a factory which supplies 'dirty' tuna to John West

If you were doing your weekly shop at Sainsbury’s last Saturday, you may have noticed that John West tuna was no longer in stock. ‘Hurray!’ you may have thought, ‘Sainsbury’s has finally decided to drop this horrific brand.’ If you looked a little closer, however, you would have noticed that Greenpeace was actually behind the lack of John West tuna in the tinned fish aisle. ;-)<--break->

Article tagged as: action, destructive fishing oceans overfishing, direct action, Dirty Tuna, Greenpeace volunteers, notjusttuna, people power

Are noisy oceans to blame for beached whales?

Posted by Fiona Nicholls — 23 May 2016 at 12:36pm - Comments
Sperm whales beached on the Dutch Island of Texel, Jan 2016
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Sperm whales beached on the Dutch Island of Texel, Jan 2016.

Noise is the most invisible of all the man-made threats to the ocean, but to whales who ‘see’ by hearing, they simply cannot escape it.

Article tagged as: beached whales, beaked whale, CSIP, DCS, decompression sickness, deep diving, marine mammals, mass stranding, noise, noise pollution, oceans, pilot whale, Seismic, sonar, sperm whale, the bends, whales

How well do you know these endangered species?

Posted by MeenaRajput — 21 May 2016 at 2:10pm - Comments

In the last of our series, we take a look back at some of our absolute favourite facts about our amazing Greenpeace animals:

11. Polar bears aren’t really white.

It’s true. Polar bears actually have black skin (take a look at their noses) that’s covered in transparent, pigment-free hair. Each individual polar bear hair scatters and reflects visible light which makes polar bears appear white, even though they’re not - sneaky.

How well do you know the orangutan?

Posted by Greenpeace UK — 21 May 2016 at 9:33am - Comments

I’m Richard, a forests campaigner here at Greenpeace. I joined the forests team back in 2013, and since then I’ve learnt so many interesting and surprising things about these amazing animals while trying to protect them. Here are my 10 favourite orangutan facts:

10. Orangutans are ticklish

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