press releases
Last edited 8 July 2003 at 8:00am
Greenpeace is hosting an art exhibition to highlight the beauty and crisis of Indonesia's rainforests.
Indonesia has some of the most magnificent lowland rainforests in the world but unless action is taken now the World Bank predicts much of it will be destroyed by 2010.
The Save or Delete exhibition includes illustrations, photographs and an audio-visual installation.
A range of internationally acclaimed illustrators are participating, including Jasper Goodall, Jody Barton, Vault 49, Airside, Pete Fowler, Kate Gibb and Shiv.
Last edited 4 July 2003 at 8:00am
Radiation Barrels are Presented to Iraqi Administration in Iraq
Last edited 3 July 2003 at 8:00am
Our GM-o-Meter polls were open for business during July. Unlike the Government's GM Public Debate, which is somewhat flawed, our polling method was fast and easy!
We asked people a simple question: "Do you want your food to be free of all GM ingredients?"
The table below shows the results we've collated so far.
Last edited 2 July 2003 at 8:00am
The European Parliament today voted to adopt strict rules that will see all GM foods labelled across the EU. The move is certain to infuriate the Bush administration and GM-lobbyists in the United States, where the European proposal was fiercely opposed. Tony Blair and the Food Standards Agency were also known to oppose the legislation. The comprehensive new rules mean that all food and animal feed containing or deriving from genetically modified organisms will have to be clearly labelled, making it possible for farmers, food producers and consumers to avoid using or eating them.
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Chrissie Hynde, lead singer of rock group the Pretenders, joined crew onboard Greenpeace flagship the Rainbow Warrior in Valencia harbour this afternoon, to demand that the Spanish government free the ship.
The Rainbow Warrior was impounded following a Greenpeace action at the port on 13th June to block the import of illegal and destructively logged timber from Cameroon's rainforests. The Spanish Government have ordered Greenpeace to post a bond of Euro 300,000 in order for the ship to be released.
Last edited 30 June 2003 at 8:00am
Exchanging radioactive barrels for clean water containers in Iraq
Greenpeace activists today took clean water containers into the communities around the Tuwaitha nuclear facility near Baghdad and encouraged people to swap them for radioactive containers, contaminated with uranium 'yellowcake'.
Last edited 26 June 2003 at 8:00am
An international meeting of Environment Ministers ended today with the UK being forced to accept, in writing, the concerns of European countries over radioactive discharges into the North Seas (1) from the Sellafield nuclear installation in Cumbria.
London had previously successfully resisted attempts to record criticism of the UK's failure to meet its commitments to reduce radioactive discharges at the OSPAR conference (2,3). Norway, Denmark, Iceland, Ireland, the Netherlands and Sweden were particularly critical of the UK's role.
Last edited 26 June 2003 at 8:00am
The Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution warned today that man-made chemicals posed 'unacceptable' risks to human health and wildlife and called for a 'fundamental reform' of government policy on chemicals. Greenpeace welcomed in particular the Commission's call for the central goal of government policy on chemicals to be the 'systematic substitution of hazardous substances with those of a lower hazard'. The report also advised financial penalties for companies that persisted in using dangerous chemicals where less harmful alternatives already exist.
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Greenpeace team members decontaminate eachother
Last edited 24 June 2003 at 8:00am
Greenpeace scientist Dr Rianne Teule measures radioactive levels
