press releases
Last edited 5 November 2003 at 9:00am
Last edited 5 November 2003 at 9:00am
Activists locked underneath our loudspeaker truck - parked outside the Oil & Money conference
Last edited 4 November 2003 at 9:00am
During November and December 2003, our ship the MV Arctic Sunrise is visiting and supporting the local communities of Para State, who have long been fighting against the invasion of their traditional lands by grileiros (land grabbers), and loggers. The communities are working with Greenpeace to create a protected reserve in the region, for legal and sustainable forestry operations and for governance and social justice.
Last edited 3 November 2003 at 9:00am
Scarweather Sands: poll results reveal 3 times as many local people in favour of wind power
More than three times as many local residents support the Scarweather
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The Precautionary Principle is now a well-accepted principle of international law, and is an attempt to legally codify the well-known maxim, "look before you leap". Greenpeace supports the Precautionary Principle in the face of environmental threats that are potentially devastating but unknown in scope and range of impacts - such as GMOs and nuclear power.
Last edited 31 October 2003 at 9:00am
The UK imports approximately one million tonnes of unsegregated soya and maize each year, mostly for use in animal feed. Over half the soya and one quarter of the maize grown in the United States is genetically modified (GM). The US soya and maize industry claim it is impossible to segregate GM and non-GM crops. The UK government says that a 'substantial proportion' of UK imports will contain GM material.
Last edited 31 October 2003 at 9:00am
Toxic pyjamas - courtesy of the Disney Corporation
Last edited 30 October 2003 at 9:00am
Tens of thousands of endangered seabirds die because of fishing every year. In the Southern Ocean, the albatross is being driven to the verge of extinction by fleets of pirate fishing boats, there to illegally catch Patagonian Toothfish.
Last edited 29 October 2003 at 9:00am
Greenpeace today reacted to newly published chemicals regulations by claiming that the European Commission had bowed to the interests of the chemical industry instead of addressing public health and environmental concerns.
Speaking about the Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of Chemicals legislation (REACH), Oliver Knowles, Greenpeace Toxics Campaigner, said:
Last edited 27 October 2003 at 9:00am
Almost 9,000 letters and e-postcards in support of the proposed Scarweather Sands windfarm in Swansea Bay have been sent to the Welsh Assembly ahead of the public inquiry into the development.
2,874 letters and 5,727 e-postcards have flooded in from supporters of clean, green renewable energy in South Wales. The letters have now all been submitted to the inquiry, while the number of e-postcards sent is growing by around 20 a day.
