press releases
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Greenpeace activists in Rome today appealed to the Finnish Prime Minister to save the Sàmi reindeer forests in Northern Finland . The activists unfurled a banner - Stop Trashing Sàmi Reindeer Forests - at the UN headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Wood chips were deposited in front of the building to highlight the fact that the Finnish government is turning the reindeer forests into wood chips for pulp and paper production.
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Angeli, Finland. 15 March 2005
Today, as local reindeer herders and Greenpeace activists defended the forest rights of indigenous Sàmi people in Arctic Lapland, the Finnish Minister for Foreign Affairs was busy abroad painting a rosy picture of Finland's human rights policy. Campaigners placed demarcation signs in an area of winter reindeer grazing forest important for the Muotkatunturi co-operative in Angeli, northern Lapland.
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Greenpeace volunteers in the Channel today (8am 15th March 2005) stopped two French boats from pair trawling for sea bass in UK waters - to stop them from killing dolphins in their nets. An hour later (9am) Greenpeace found three dead dolphins with their stomachs cut wide open floating in the sea. The volunteers retrieved the dead animals, whose stomachs are likely to have been slit in an effort to make them sink, onto the Greenpeace ship, Esperanza, for documentation.
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Greenpeace are holding a Cardiff wide day of action against supermarkets still selling genetically modified (GM) milk. Shoppers the length and breadth of Cardiff will be offered the chance to exchange their GM milk for an organic alternative free of charge to show their rejection of GM goods.
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Greenpeace activists today continued their campaign to protect dolphins in the Channel by trying to stop two French 'pair trawlers' from fishing for sea bass. Greenpeace swimmers put themselves in the path of the two vessels Sonia Jerome and Cote d'Amour in an attempt to stop them pair trawling - a fishing method that traps and drowns dolphins in the giant net towed between the two vessels.
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Greenpeace today (2nd March) announced that it would be stepping up its campaign to protect remaining ancient forests in Finland by establishing a Forest Rescue Station in the last Sàmi reindeer forests of Arctic Lapland. This follows the Finnish government's decision to start new logging operations in important winter grazing pine forests, in defiance of urgent recommendations issued by the UN Human Rights Committee (1).
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A herd of costume cows and milkmen and women hit the streets of Cardiff to protest about supermarkets selling genetically modified (GM) milk in Wales. The campaigning cows will be touring Cardiff in an open top bus and visiting supermarkets that continue to use GM animal feed for their dairy herds. The worst offenders will be awarded the "Greenpeace Cowpat Award for Supporting GM milk".
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Greenpeace swimmers in the Channel today attempted to prevent dolphins being caught and drowned in fishing nets by placing themselves in the path of two boats dragging a huge net between them.
The UK boats Ocean Star and Ocean Crest are part of the sea bass pair trawling fleet which is estimated to kill thousands of dolphins in the Channel every year.
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Campaigners against so-called Chelsea Tractors are calling for the London congestion charge to be raised to £20 for gas-guzzling cars. Hundreds of members of Greenpeace and the Alliance Against Urban 4x4s are hitting Goodge street today to lobby Londoners on the new proposal, while the groups have hung a huge banner across Marylebone High street that says: "CHARGE 4x4s £20".
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A dead dolphin bearing the tell-tale signs of being killed in a large fishing net was today (22 February) found floating 18 miles south of Plymouth by the Greenpeace ship Esperanza.
Observers onboard the vessel spotted the dolphin at 9.10am and, after battling gale force winds, were eventually able to bring the dolphin onboard. The Institute of Zoology and the Natural History Museum, who co-ordinate information on dead dolphins, will be contacted by Greenpeace with all the relevant information. The male dolphin measured just over two metres.
