Tag: Greenpeace

Greenpeace, Aardman and Oscar winning actors collaborate on groundbreaking new animation highlighting global ocean crisis

Stuart Mitchell

Turtle Journey tells the heartbreaking story of a turtle family heading home through an ocean that is under increasing pressure from climate change, plastic pollution, oil drilling and overfishing. Characters in the film are voiced by Oscar winners Olivia Colman and Dame Helen Mirren, along with Game of Thrones’ Bella Ramsey, Stranger Things’ David Harbour, Downton Abbey’s Jim Carter, and comedian Ahir Shah. Louisa Casson, oceans campaigner at Greenpeace UK, said: “Our oceans are in crisis, with six out of seven sea turtle species threatened with extinction. Aardman’s global popularity…

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New Greenpeace report reveals the deadly impact of ghost gear

Stuart Mitchell

An estimated 640,000 tonnes of abandoned or lost fishing equipment, or ‘ghost gear’, enter the ocean every year, equivalent in weight to more than 50 thousand double-decker buses. In total, they make up around 10% of the plastic waste in our oceans, entangling and killing marine life, warns a new Greenpeace Germany report, Ghost gear: the abandoned fishing nets haunting our oceans, launched today.  The report comes as Greenpeace ship, Arctic Sunrise is surveying Mount Vema,  a biodiverse seamount in the Atlantic, 1,000 kilometers off the coast of South Africa,…

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After 20 years, iconic American Beauty’s bag keeps polluting the Earth.

Stuart Mitchell

Greenpeace announces the launch of its new campaign to fight against the single-use plastic. Under the hashtag #ChileSinPlásticos and the worldwide initiative to end the use of single-use plastics (Break free from plastic), McCann Santiago de Chile presents a new communicational action. Chile and Latin America are taking important steps to legally ban the use of plastic, but we also need to call the people to change their own behavior. This time we take advantage of the 20th anniversary of the classic movie “American Beauty”, to question the iconic scene…

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World’s most northern ice concert performed in support of Ocean Sanctuaries

Stuart Mitchell

Greenpeace has partnered with a group of musicians to record an ice concert in the far north of the Arctic. They played a piece called ‘Ocean Memories’ on instruments carved from ice collected in Arctic waters. With temperatures below -12 degrees celsius, the rhythms of chimes, horns, ice percussion and a cello blended together to send a message for the need to protect at least 30% of our global oceans by 2030. The performance took place on 2 May and the video is released today. “You have to treat ice…

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Greenpeace launches ambitious pole to pole expedition in bid for a Global Ocean Treaty

Stuart Mitchell

Greenpeace launches one of its biggest ever expeditions – an almost year-long pole to pole voyage from the Arctic to the Antarctic – to highlight the many threats facing the oceans and to campaign for a Global Ocean Treaty covering all seas outside of national waters. [See below for an expedition itinerary.] Visiting many of the areas identified as in need of protection by the groundbreaking academic study 30×30: A Blueprint for Ocean Protection, released last week, the Protect the Oceans expedition will see scientists and campaigners team up to…

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