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tures, which are expected to reach record-highs. beluga whales, and narwhals – the leg-
The Arctic Sunrise made history early on its endary sea unicorns of the Arctic Ocean.
journey when it became the first ship to Many Arctic species have already begun
navigate the full length of the Nares Strait in mid- to disappear as a direct result of global
June, a time of year when the strait is normally still warming’s impacts. Greenpeace campaign-
ice-logged and impassable. ers will be using the research collected on the
At the end of the Nares Strait stands the mammoth expedition as evidence that global warming is
Peterman glacier. It is one of the oldest and largest pushing these animals towards the
glaciers in the Arctic Circle – and it is on the verge of brink of extinction and that we will
collapse. Our expert ice climbers set up cameras suffer the same fate unless we
on the glacier and caught a section the size pass serious legislation to curb
of Manhattan splitting off and separating from the global warming emissions.
glacier.
The Greenpeace team has
also been documenting the
effects that the melting ice
and rising temperatures are
having on Arctic wildlife like
polar bears, ribbon seals,
Greenpeace Opposes New U.S. Global Warming Bill
n June 26th, the U.S. House of Representatives The Nobel-prize winning Intergovernmental Panel
Greenpeace activists scale a coal plant's 985 foot smokestack and hang a "Stop CO2" banner in the
Czech Republic. A month later, on the day of the G8 Summit in Italy, activists simultaneously infiltrated
five Italian coal plants and hung global warming messages down the side. ©Vaclav Vasku/Greenpeace
AMERICA HONORS LEADERS
“Now is not the time for complacency,” says
Greenpeace Campaigns Director Lisa
Finaldi. “Complacency leads to a false
sense of optimism, a mistaken willingness On July 8th, 11 Greenpeace activists were arrested for hanging a
to compromise for quick results, and a mis- 2,300 square foot banner on the face of Mount Rushmore. The
placed faith that politicians and corpora- banner issued a direct challenge to President Barack Obama:
tions will put the people and the planet “America Honors Leaders, Not Politicians: Stop Global Warming.”
above their own self-interests. Yes, we are Greenpeace’s Mount Rushmore action was part of a global day of
in urgent need of progress and of change – action that coincided with the G8 climate meetings.
but quick fixes and compromises are not
the right solutions. Doing what’s right, in
the context of global warming, means
doing it absolutely right.”
Unless the new climate bill is strengthened
in the Senate, the United States will enter
December’s UN Climate Convention in
Copenhagen without a strong commitment
to fight global warming.
Greenpeace is calling upon President
Obama to get us back to the
science-based targets he promised and
become a world leader in the battle against
global warming.
©Kate Davison/Greenpeace
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Save the Seals!
n 1976, Greenpeace launched the world’s first-ever between the hunters and their prey, peacefully preventing
I “Save the Seals” campaign. the slaughter. French bombshell Brigitte Bardot later
joined Greenpeace on the ice, bringing 45 international
A team of 15 activists traveled to the ice fields of
journalists and the world media’s spotlight with her.
Newfoundland, where hundreds of thousands of baby
harp seals were being torn from their mothers, smashed Because of Greenpeace’s campaign and the wave of
over the head with spiked clubs, and public support that followed, the Newfoundland hunt was
stripped of their snow white fur. reformed. New rules forbidding the slaughter of whitecoat
harp seal pups under two weeks old were put in
Just as they had done a
place and the commercial import of seal
year earlier during the
pelts was banned in Europe.
first “Save the
Slowly, harp seal popu-
Whales” campaign,
lations have risen
the Greenpeace
back to healthy
activists placed
levels.
themselves
directly
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© Pierre Gleizes/Greenpeace
“Today, seals face a threat even more devastating than
the hunters’ clubs,” says Greenpeace Marine Projects
Manager Willem Beekman. Beekman was a crewmem-
ber on the Rainbow Warrior’s first seal campaign and
later served as captain of Greenpeace’s Sirius. “Global
warming is already pushing some seal species to the
brink of extinction.” © Michael Cameron/NOAA
©Gabe Smalley/Greenpeace
Cattle Giant Stops the Slaughter
The Earth’s forests are disappearing before our eyes. Not only does forest loss mean a loss of
wildlife, but tropical deforestation releases tons of greenhouse gases that contribute to global
warming. Greenpeace is calling for zero deforestation by 2015 in the world’s three remaining
tropical rainforests: the Amazon, the Congo, and the Paradise Forests.
©Daniel Beltrá/Greenpeace
the absence of leadership
from President Lula, The Prince’s Rainforests Project Award
Marfrig and Governor
Maggi have taken their own hotography has played a key role
steps towards ending defor-
estation and pushing for
P throughout Greenpeace’s history
of bearing witness and taking action
global warming solutions.”
against environmental destruction.
Greenpeace is calling upon
Daniel Beltrá has now joined the
Brazil’s President Lula, and
ranks of legendary Greenpeace
all of the world’s Heads of
photographers like Rex Weyler and
State, to take personal
responsibility for solving ©Daniel Beltrá/Greenpeace
Fernando Pereira.
the climate crisis. A new For nearly two decades, Beltrá’s cam- ©Daniel Beltrá/Greenpeace
international climate treaty eras have highlighted tropical deforestation in the
must be agreed upon at Amazon, the Congo, and the Paradise Forests. At this
this December’s UN year’s Sony World Photography Awards Gala, His
Climate Convention and Royal Highness The Prince of Wales presented Beltrá
that deal must include with The Prince’s Rainforests Project Award.
measures to protect tropi-
cal rainforests. This prestigious award was founded by Prince Charles
to draw attention to the global role played by
Greenpeace activists take direct rainforests in global warming. Beltrá has won a fully-
action against industrial cattle funded photographic expedition to the world’s three
farms that continue slashing and
burning the Amazon Rainforest. tropical rainforest regions.
© Greenpeace / Rodrigo BalÈia
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Supermarket Scorecard
But there are some retailers that have made little
to no effort to increase the sustainability of their
seafood operations. These companies have
willfully disregarded the health of our planet and
are continuing to wreak havoc on our ocean
ecosystems.
As has recently been made public in local and
national media, Greenpeace is now engaged in a
campaign directed at one of the seafood industry’s
most egregious offenders: Trader Joe’s.
For over 18 months, Greenpeace attempted
cooperative engagement with Trader Joe’s, but the
supermarket chain has refused to address the
impacts they are having on our oceans.
In fact, Trader Joe’s is the only national chain that has
yet to make any meaningful movement toward
improving their seafood policies. For more informa-
tion on how you can participate in Greenpeace’s
campaign, please visit traitorjoe.com.
Celebrities Say
That’s right. We’re talking to you, Robert DeNiro.
Despite intense pressure from Greenpeace, the two-time Academy
Award-winner has refused to remove endangered bluefin tuna from the
“No” To Nobu menus of his hugely successful Nobu restaurants. DeNiro co-owns the
high-end sushi chain with Master Chef Nobu Matsuhisa.
Nobu restaurants have been a favorite haunt of the rich and famous for
over a decade now. But Nobu’s audacious decision to continue selling the
last of a critically endangered species has left many of the restaurants’
loyal clientele with a bad taste in their mouths.
Over 30 celebrities, including Charlize Theron, Sienna Miller, Elle
Macpherson, Alicia Silverstone, Kate Goldsmith, Ted Danson, Woody
Harrelson, Stephen Fry, and Sting recently signed a petition vowing not to
patronize Nobu until it stops serving the near-extinct tuna. From their
statement:
“As customers and fans of Nobu we strongly feel that bluefin tuna
must be completely removed from your menu due to its perilous
position as an extremely endangered animal. Nobu is a
restaurant we all love, a world leader in sushi with a
fantastic reputation and enormous influence. If Nobu
took a definitive stand on this issue it could make a
critical difference.”
Actor Jack Black speaks with a Greenpeace activist outside of r Restaurants like Nobu will pay upwards
Nobu and promises not to order any tuna in the restaurant.
Black told the activists to keep up the good work. of $100,000 for a single bluefin tuna at
market.
©Dennis Gill
Obama and the IWC
ntil recently, holdouts from the Bush administration were
U engaged in closed-door negotiations with Japanese officials
to expand the Japanese whaling program for the first time in
decades.
The new deal would have allowed Japan to increase its
whaling quota in coastal regions to include sperm whales,
Bryde's whales, and even humpback whales.
After Greenpeace supporters around the world sent an
overwhelming stream of letters and petitions to President ©Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert/Greenpeace
Obama, the president agreed to appoint three new repre- shift the focus of the IWC from an International Whaling
sentatives to the International Whaling Commission (IWC) Commission, which was established to regulate commercial
and halt all negotiations with Japan. whaling, to an International Whale Commission, which
At this year’s annual IWC meeting, President Obama’s would promote the conservation and protection of whales.
newly appointed IWC representatives were successful in Unfortunately, little headway was made on the issue of
bringing the issue of global warming to the table and citing Japan’s “scientific” whaling program – which is really nothing
it as a serious threat to whales and dolphins. The U.S. more than a commercial whaling enterprise in disguise.
representatives’ resolution, entitled the “Consensus Greenpeace will continue to wage our campaign against
Resolution on Climate and Other Environmental Changes Japan’s whaling program, from the high seas of the
and Cetaceans,” was officially passed and calls upon world Southern Ocean to the high courts of international law. We
governments to incorporate climate change considerations won’t give up until the whales are left in peace and the IWC’s
into their existing whale conservation plans. ban on commercial whaling, which Greenpeace fought so
This marks an important first step in Greenpeace’s efforts to tirelessly to pass in 1986, is upheld.
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