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Our oceans are in crisis.

Greenpeace activists attempt to stop a whale from being hauled in onto a factory whaling ship.

Greenpeace activists attempt to stop a whale from being hauled in onto a factory whaling ship.

We know more about Mars than we know about deep ocean life, yet we are destroying it with seabed trawling. We have hunted many whale species to the brink of extinction. Modern fishing methods scoop up fish stocks faster than they can be replenished.  Meanwhile, pollution creates huge 'dead zones' in the world's oceans.

Greenpeace is working to protect the world’s whale populations, stop marine pollution and end the destructive over fishing currently threatening the entire ocean ecosystem.

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Sperm whale, (Physeter macrocephalus), Azores Islands (N. Atlantic). Enlarge Image

Ocean monuments? Thank you, George Bush

Thanks to President George Bush three national monuments in the Pacific will be created to protect the largest amount of ocean in the world to date. This is a truly rare opportunity for us to applaud the Bush administration!

Sperm whale, (Physeter macrocephalus), Azores Islands (N. Atlantic). Enlarge Image

Ocean monuments? Thank you, George Bush

Thanks to President George Bush three national monuments in the Pacific will be created to protect the largest amount of ocean in the world to date. This is a truly rare opportunity for us to applaud the Bush administration!

Greenpeace opens a Climate Rescue Station on the edge of an open coal mine in Poland. Coal the single greatest threat facing our climate. Poland uses coal to produce 93% of its electricity. The Station has been set up in the run up to crucial UN climate negotiations in Poznan, Poland this December. Despite hosting the talks, Poland is attempting to obstruct the negotiations and to undermine the EU’s efforts to reduce CO2 emissions. Enlarge Image

2008: The year in review

Here's a look at all the efforts for a green and peaceful future that our supporters made possible in 2008.

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Recent developments

Sperm whale, (Physeter macrocephalus), Azores Islands (N. Atlantic).

Ocean monuments? Thank you, George Bush

Thanks to President George Bush three national monuments in the Pacific will be created to protect the largest amount of ocean in the world to date. This is a truly rare opportunity for us to applaud the Bush administration!

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Greenpeace opens a Climate Rescue Station on the edge of an open coal mine in Poland. Coal the single greatest threat facing our climate. Poland uses coal to produce 93% of its electricity. The Station has been set up in the run up to crucial UN climate negotiations in Poznan, Poland this December. Despite hosting the talks, Poland is attempting to obstruct the negotiations and to undermine the EU’s efforts to reduce CO2 emissions.

2008: The year in review

Here's a look at all the efforts for a green and peaceful future that our supporters made possible in 2008.

Read More
Greenpeace Canada Executive Director Bruce Cox at the Japanese Embassy presenting boxes filled with mugshots of Canadians ‘Charged with Defending the Whales’.

Greenpeace Canada executive director joins worldwide vigil to end Japanese whaling and the political persecution of the “Tokyo Two”

Greenpeace Canada’s executive director presented himself at the Japanese embassy in Ottawa this morning in hopes of being arrested as a co-defendant to two activists, dubbed the “Tokyo Two,” facing 10 years in prison for exposing the embezzlement of whale meat in Japan.

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