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Posted by Angela Glienicke — 5 August 2016 at 12:31pm
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Whether you celebrate World Honey Bee Day by rustling up your favourite honey-orange quinoa or watching Hitchcock’s ‘The Bees’, spare a thought for these tiny workers today. The awareness day was initially organised by beekeepers in the USA
to highlight bees' involvement in sustainable farming and food production. Many crops are pollinated by bees and we have them to thank for apples, pumpkins
and more.
Posted by Angela Glienicke — 27 July 2016 at 1:59pm
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Every year on the 29th
July the largest members of the
cat family have their special day which raises awareness and celebrates these
iconic animals. It’s estimated that fewer than 4,000 tigers are left in the wild
with almost 93% of their historic range being lost.
Posted by Angela Glienicke — 24 June 2016 at 5:11pm
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Every year the Discovery Channel dedicates a week to these amazing carnivorous
fish. What a great opportunity to share a few of our archive pictures showing what magnificent creatures sharks are and highlighting the threats they face.
Posted by Angela Glienicke — 5 June 2016 at 9:10am
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Every year on the 5th of June, World Environment Day is celebrated throughout the world, raising awareness
and urging people to take positive environmental action to protect nature.
This collection of our
archive images gives you just a
glimpse of the beauty and wonders of the world around us, and shows us just how important it is to make
every day a World Environment Day. They also document some of the environmental problems around the world.
Posted by Angela Glienicke — 13 April 2016 at 3:54pm
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Forest next to the Tapajós river, in Sawré Muybu Indigenous Land
A report published this week by Greenpeace Brazil shines a spotlight on technology giant Siemens’ involvement in a massive hydropower dam planned for the Tapajós River.
Posted by Angela Glienicke — 18 March 2016 at 5:19pm
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Nordic forest in Romania. Trees in the Retezat National Park in the Carpathian Mountains
It's the International day of Forests today
and a quote by Mahatma Gandhi springs to mind: “What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.”
Posted by Angela Glienicke — 3 March 2016 at 1:40pm
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Dolphin around the Esperanza in the Atlantic Ocean
It’s March and it's Dolphin
Awareness Month! Dolphins are extremely intelligent and social animals that live in pods, can swim at a speed of up to 25 miles per hour and maybe able to dive up to
1,000 feet - as well as jump as high as 20 feet out of the water. These images document why we need to protect these magnificent creatures!
Posted by Angela Glienicke — 19 February 2016 at 4:58pm
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Narwhals caught breaching in icy waters
Today we launch our
campaign to protect the fragile ocean on top of the world. These images illustrate the rich biodiversity of the region and give
you an idea of what is at stake if industrial fishing fleets move even further North
to exploit these waters, where ethereal, otherworldly, translucent sea angels hover and the unicorns of the sea, narwahls live.
Posted by Angela Glienicke — 2 February 2016 at 11:07am
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Abbot Point and Caley Valley Wetlands
Today NGOs and
community groups around the world raise awareness and promote the conservation
of wetlands and celebrate World Wetlands Day. This year’s theme is “Wetlands
for our future; sustainable livelihoods”.
The importance of wetlands
in providing a habitat, hosting a vast variety of life, as well the threat they can be under is illustrated in our
archive pictures below.
Posted by Angela Glienicke — 18 December 2015 at 1:39pm
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Actress Emma Thompson and John Sauven, Executive Director of Greenpeace UK, join tens of thousands of people for the People's March for Climate Justice
2015 has been an eventful year as ever and these
pictures can only attempt to illustrate a fraction of our campaign highlights. It's been a year of people power, whether we were campaigning outside Shell or taking to the streets during the climate
conference in Paris. 