Defend oceans

Last edited 25 February 2016 at 1:08pm

Our beautiful oceans are home to a staggering 80% of life on Earth. But destructive fishing, pollution and climate change are damaging them on a scale unimaginable to most people. Species are being driven towards extinction because of overfishing and habitat destruction. We are campaigning for marine reserves, and for an end to unsustainable fishing.

Campaign updates

Science in the arctic: deploying mescosms at 79°N

Like many other marine species, pteropods are threatened by ocean acidification © Cobbing/Greenpeace Janet Cotter, from Greenpeace's Science Unit is...
Posted by jamie - 9 June, 2010 - 13:44 -

Science in the arctic: deploying mescosms at 79°N

Like many other marine species, pteropods are threatened by ocean acidification © Cobbing/Greenpeace Janet Cotter, from Greenpeace's Science Unit is...
Posted by jamie - 9 June, 2010 - 13:44 -

On World Oceans Day, the Tokyo Two urgently need your help

The Tokyo Two trial has just come to end in Japan today with the prosecutor asking the judge to sentence defendants Junichi and Toru to 18 months in jail....
Posted by jamie - 8 June, 2010 - 12:30 -

On World Oceans Day, the Tokyo Two urgently need your help

The Tokyo Two trial has just come to end in Japan today with the prosecutor asking the judge to sentence defendants Junichi and Toru to 18 months in jail....
Posted by jamie - 8 June, 2010 - 12:30 -

Another attempt to free bluefin tuna from fishing nets

Earlier today, the Greenpeace team in the Mediterranean made another attempt to free bluefin tuna caught by the purse-seine fishing vessels. The good news...
Posted by jamie - 7 June, 2010 - 17:24

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