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Fishing for plankton is ridiculous.

Posted by Willie Mackenzie - 1st June 2016
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In the ocean, plankton is food. There are two types of plankton – tiny plants (phytoplankton) and tiny animals (zooplankton). Zooplankton includes some eggs and larvae of things like fish and crabs, as well as some minute animals that feed on phytoplankton. That makes them the first link in any… Read More

Taking 400,000 people on a trip to the Indian Ocean

Posted by Tom Lowe - 1st June 2016
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If John West’s owner Thai Union doesn’t start protecting the oceans and those who work on them, we’ll continue to shut down their supply chains, explains Tom Lowe, who has just returned from the Greenpeace ship the Esperanza’s tour of the Indian Ocean. It was a sunny April afternoon when… Read More

Three ways you can tell Sainsbury’s to drop John West!

Posted by Alice Hunter - 31st May 2016
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We’ve sent thousands of emails, hundreds of tweets and inundated their Customer Service phone line with calls – but Sainsbury’s still won’t speak out against unsustainable fishing. They seem to think that if they ignore us we’ll go away – but that’s not going to happen. Tesco and Waitrose have… Read More

What my grandmother would say about President Obama’s visit to Hiroshima

Posted by Daisuke Miyachi - 26th May 2016
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World leaders are meeting in Japan for the G7, but on a side trip, President Obama is doing something no sitting US president has done before: visit Hiroshima. The city was flattened during World War Two by the first nuclear weapon used in warfare. Now more than ever, we need… Read More

Greenpeace volunteers confront destructive fishing

Posted by Alix Foster vander Elst - 23rd May 2016
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If you were doing your weekly shop at Sainsbury’s last Saturday, you may have noticed that John West tuna was no longer in stock. ‘Hurray!’ you may have thought, ‘Sainsbury’s has finally decided to drop this horrific brand.’ If you looked a little closer, however, you would have noticed that… Read More

Are noisy oceans to blame for beached whales?

Posted by Fiona Nicholls - 23rd May 2016

Noise is the most invisible of all the man-made threats to the ocean, but to whales who ‘see’ by hearing, they simply cannot escape it. Water is an excellent medium for relaying sound, enabling some species of whale to communicate across entire oceans. However, during the last century, things… Read More