The Esperanza has arrived in Australia and over the next 6 weeks Greenpeace will be travelling up the eastern seaboard of Australia, campaigning hard to get the federal government to acknowledge that renewables can do the job and that the time is up for fossil fuels.
So stay tuned - The Energy [R]evolution tour has begun! Check out the awesome website here
Today Greenpeace took action against the biggest and most devastatingly efficient tuna catching vessel in the world, the Spanish owned purse ‘super, super seiner’ (because it is so amazingly large) Albatun Tres.
After chasing the vessel for five days over 1,000 nautical miles, the Esperanza finally caught up with the Albatun Tres this morning, and caught it red-handed deploying its massive net inside a Kiribati marine area proposed for protection.
The colossal ship can net more than 3,000 tonnes of tuna in a single fishing trip - almost double the entire annual catch of some Pacific countries – however, despite this major haul and the perilously low levels of tuna stocks worldwide, its Spanish owners do not think this is enough and are looking at deploying more ships in the area. Read more »
Langi, on board our ship the Esperanza, with an update on destructive fishing in his part of the world, and what we’re doing about it.
It’s been an eventful weekend in the Pacific Ocean, with Greenpeace activists taking on longline fishermen, saving turtles and more. Dean reports from the Esperanza…
As the sun rose across the Pacific Ocean, the crew of the Esperanza were already awake and so was the crew of the Ho Tsai Fao 18, a Taiwanese longliner. We’d spotted the longliner as the light was fading the day before and stayed with her throughout the night.
We’d been on board a Taiwanese tuna longliner earlier in the expedition and filmed 12 sacks of shark fins and tails (most were small and wouldn’t have reached breeding age yet). Our research showed this vessel had a controversial shark finning past in Costa Rica, so who knew what it was doing? Read more »
From the Esperanza in the Pacific …
The Esperanza has just left Honiara in the Solomon Islands where I joined the ship so that we can keep you up to date on all of our adventures in the Pacific. I have replaced Jess, the webby from the Greenpeace USA office, who has reluctantly returned to her desk in Washington DC. If you’ve missed whatś been going on in the Pacific over the past few weeks you can check out her blog here. Read more »
Japan’s factory whaling ship, the Nisshin Maru was “welcomed” into Tokyo earlier today, by Junichi and our team from Greenpeace Japan, along with the word “failed” to accompany the ubiquitous and Orwellian “RESEARCH” painted on its hull.
During its five months at sea, the Nisshin Maruwas responsible for taking 551 minke whales from the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary - far less than the 1035 whales planned, but more than a hundred than were killed three years ago. Our ship, the Esperanza, shutdown Japan’s entire whaling operation for 15 days, during a 4300-mile chase of the Nisshin Maru across the Southern Ocean. The whalers are blaming the protestors (that’d be us then) for missing their target. Read more »
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