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Recovery for Europe’s fisheries, or just wishful thinking?

Posted by Willie — 4 July 2012 at 11:51am - Comments
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Basic first aid tells you the most important thing to do is not cause any more harm: don’t make things worse. That makes sense, of course, but if you happen upon someone lying bleeding on the pavement, simply not kicking them on the way past isn’t really a good enough reaction.

I’ve been struggling for analogies to use, ways to try and explain just what is so bad about the recent EU Council ‘agreement’ on fish stocks.

A big step forward for our oceans

Posted by Fran G — 28 June 2012 at 2:07pm - Comments
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For a long time organisations like Greenpeace, backed by people like you, have been calling for stronger protection of our oceans.

Last week showed our voices were heard. The Australian environment minister Tony Burke announced what is a genuinely significant step forward for ocean protection, not only for Australia, but in global terms. 

Celebrities join Save The Arctic campaign

Posted by Fran G — 21 June 2012 at 12:33pm - Comments
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We’re so grateful to the following actors, musicians, explorers, environmentalists and leaders from the worlds of business, arts and media for being the first to place their names on the Arctic Scroll, to be planted on the seabed at the North Pole as a statement of Arctic protection. Join them! 

A good deal for our oceans, or does something smell fishy in Luxembourg?

Posted by Willie — 20 June 2012 at 11:30am - Comments

EU Council meetings – the epitome of fun. These are when representatives of each EU member state, usually the relevant government minister, get together to discuss issues of importance.  Last Monday - all day, and into the small hours, it was the turn of  the UK’s minister, Richard Benyon to get together with his 26 counterparts to discuss and agree a way forward on Common Fisheries Policy reform.

KFC: see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil

Posted by ianduff — 15 June 2012 at 5:08pm - Comments
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For KFC it’s all "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil" as they continue to deny the simple truth that they have been using paper made by Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) for their packaging.  The company still won’t explain how rainforest fibre has been found in its products, nor admit that a UK supplier, St Neots, has been using paper from APP, a company notorious for pulping Indonesian rainforest, including habitat for the endangered Sumatran tiger.

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