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Posted by Ariana Densham — 17 March 2015 at 2:32pm
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Crew members aboard the Kunlun fishing illegally in the Southern Ocean haul in a Patagonian toothfish
Illegal fishing is a global problem. Between €9 - €23 billion is lost every year to illegal fishing and often as a result of international organised crime. Previously, imports of illegal fishing products into the EU were estimated at €1.1 billion. It is often linked to environmental crimes which damage marine habitats and animals, not to mention food insecurity in developing countries, human, drugs and arms trafficking, as well as forced labour on board fishing vessels.
Illegal fishing can happen anywhere and at anytime and last week there were two very interesting developments both at home and abroad.
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Posted by Willie — 6 April 2010 at 4:08pm
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Rotterdam , 2 April 2010 – Greenpeace activists have chained themselves to the mooring ropes of a ship carrying an illicit cargo of whale meat to prevent it leaving the port of Rotterdam bound for Japan . The meat, from 13 endangered fin whales, is being stored in seven containers onboard the container ship NYK ORION, and is in transit from Iceland . Greenpeace is calling on the authorities to seize the containers.
Posted by jamie — 21 May 2009 at 3:35pm
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Mr Potato Head makes an appearance in Amsterdam
It sounds like something that would have appeared on the late, lamented Eurotrash but giant potatoes have been spotted recently cycling through the Netherlands. However, it isn't an offbeat continental cultural outing, but a reminder to the Dutch public about the importance of organic farming and the perils of GM technology.
Posted by jamie — 30 December 2008 at 10:27am
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Remember the palm oil tanker which the Esperanza prevented from docking in Indonesia last month? That same tanker - the Isola Corallo - arrived in European waters on Christmas Eve en route to Rotterdam, and was met by a group of Greenpeace activists who painted 'Forest Crime' along its hull.
I was on board the Esperanza during that first Indonesian action against the Corallo and it's brilliant to see this tanker - which is carrying 29,000 tonnes of palm oil belonging to Sinar Mas, Indonesia's largest producer - becoming the centre of attention once more here in Europe. It draws a thick line across the globe between the causes of deforestation in Indonesia and demand for products like palm oil on this side of the world.
Read the full story on the Greenpeace South East Asia website and find out more about the Indonesian end of the story in our latest podcast.
Posted by bex — 17 November 2008 at 11:19am
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Two Greenpeace ships - one of them the Rainbow Warrior - have been impounded and their captains and 90 others arrested after three days of nonviolent direct actions in the Netherlands.
Some of the 100 volunteers occupying the construction site of a new E.on coal plant in Rotterdam.
I'll start at the beginning. On Friday evening, nearly 100 Greenpeace volunteers pitched tents next to the construction site of a new E.on coal
plant in Rotterdam (one of eight E.on plans to build in Europe), to bear witness to
the unfolding climate disaster.
At first light on Saturday, they moved onto the
site and occupied it, stopping construction for 10 hours
before all being arrested.
Posted by jamie — 5 July 2007 at 5:00pm
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Over at our international office in Amsterdam, the web team have just published the June edition of their monthly round-up of images from the Greenpeace world. Being signed up to far too many internal email groups, I get to hear about what other offices are up to, but there's nothing quite like a striking image to make events in Bali or Belgium come alive.
