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Nobu: the celebrity restaurant still peddling endangered tuna

Posted by Willie — 11 February 2011 at 12:23pm - Comments
Celebrity-favourite sushi restaurant Nobu serves endangered bluefin tuna
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Celebrity-favourite sushi restaurant Nobu serves endangered bluefin tuna

This weekend Nobu Matsuhisa, the eponymous chef behind the celebrity-favourite restaurant Nobu, will be in London. For a mere £260 you could enjoy a unique dining experience, apparently. I wonder what’s on the menu. Delicious black rhino, perhaps? Or tasty Amur tiger? Maybe some melt-in-the-mouth mountain gorilla?

Article tagged as: bluefin tuna, endangered species, nobu, tuna

The polluted secret behind jeans and bras

Posted by Louise Edge — 10 February 2011 at 5:28pm - Comments

Yesterday the Guardian featured a series of pictures showing the appalling impact that China’s growing textile industry is having on the Pearl River delta.

Article tagged as: china, clothing, pollution, slideshows, textiles, toxic chemicals

Sneaky oil drillers - let's stop them

Posted by jamess — 4 February 2011 at 6:42pm - Comments
Hess' own projection of a possible spill. Terrifying.
by. Credit: Greenpeace
Hess' own projection of a possible spill. Terrifying.

The oil companies are at it again: they're trying to drill another deep water well off the Shetland Islands. Let's stop them.

Article tagged as: chevron, go beyond oil, hess, oil, oil spill, shetland

Princes selling endangered tuna for less than £1 a pop

Posted by jamie — 1 February 2011 at 7:10pm - Comments
Bigeye tuna caught in the Pacific. Princes claims to use bigeye tuna from the In
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Bigeye tuna caught in the Pacific. Princes claims to use bigeye tuna from the Indian Ocean

Yesterday, some of my colleagues met with executives from Princes to discuss the problems with their tinned tuna. It was the first meeting for several months and certainly since Princes came bottom of our league table. Needless to say, there was a lot to discuss.   

Article tagged as: bigeye tuna, endangered species, princes, sustainable seafood, tinned tuna, tuna

Defending Pacific tuna in Taiwan

Posted by jamie — 31 January 2011 at 4:07pm - Comments
Ron with activist alongside the MV Lung Yuin in Taiwan
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Ron with activist alongside the MV Lung Yuin in Taiwan

While in the UK we're focusing on Princes and the consumer end of the tuna trade, in Taiwan the Rainbow Warrior has been exposing the problems with tuna fishing. Last week, the crew prevented a fish cargo ship from leaving port...

Article tagged as: illegal fishing, oceans, overfishing, pacific ocean, taiwan, tuna

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