Posts By: Louisa Casson

I'm a campaigner in Greenpeace UK's oceans team, leading our campaign to create the world's largest protected area in the Antarctic ocean.

VICTORY! Holland & Barrett ditch krill oil to protect the Antarctic

It’s not been a great week for the krill industry. This week, Greenpeace have taken action on land and at sea to call out the massive fishing vessels that are steaming into sensitive Antarctic waters and targeting the bedrock of the Antarctic food chain: tiny shrimp-like krill. And… Read More

Louisa Casson - 23rd March 2018

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Holland & Barrett: Help stop the krillers

With a changing climate already placing penguin and whale populations under pressure, an expanding krill industry is bad news for the health of the Antarctic Ocean. Krill may be a tiny, shrimp-like creature – but it sustains all life in the Antarctic Ocean, from massive blue whales to… Read More

Louisa Casson - 21st March 2018

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There was a time men thought women shouldn’t go to the Antarctic. Wow, we proved them wrong

The Antarctic belongs to all of us, and is all of ours to protect. Yet an ice ceiling prevented women from joining expeditions to the Antarctic until relatively recently. A woman applying to join the British Antarctic Survey was rejected on the basis that, “Women… Read More

Louisa Casson - 7th March 2018

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Can we create healthy oceans and tackle climate change at the same time?

“We woke up to the fact that there’s ocean change just like climate change. We need ocean action like there’s climate action.”   These words rang out at international climate talks last week, spoken by Peter Thompson, the UN’s special envoy for the ocean. This is… Read More

Louisa Casson - 21st November 2017

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Help create the largest protected area on Earth: an Antarctic Ocean Sanctuary

If you tuned in to Blue Planet II on Sunday night, marvelling at the wonders beneath the waves (and, spoiler alert, the fish *flying* above them) then this should be an easy question. More or less ocean protection? Almost half of our planet is a… Read More

Louisa Casson - 1st November 2017

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Greenpeace take on Coca-Cola’s plastic footprint – the campaign so far

For the last nine months, Greenpeace have been targeting the soft drinks giant to reduce its gigantic plastic footprint. Here are the campaign highlights so far. Click to share on Facebook (Opens in… Read More

Louisa Casson - 26th September 2017

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