Greenpeace Aotearoa

Greenpeace welcomes today’s announcement by supermarket chain Foodstuffs, owner of the Pams brand, that it will be shifting the majority of its Pams canned tuna to more sustainable sources.

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GORE — In response to reported statements made by yesterday by Prime Minister John Key, Greenpeace New Zealand has condemned his support for digging up Southland’s lignite deposits as reckless, short-sighted and dangerous to our economy.

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Tuna stocks and other ocean life are being threatened by the fishing methods used to fill Sealord tuna cans, says Greenpeace.

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AUCKLAND CITY — Despite what it says to the contrary, the Government is not interested in true economic prosperity, as shown by today’s announcement not to support the building of Auckland’s rail loop, says Greenpeace New Zealand.

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“The Government have missed a golden opportunity to create jobs, stimulate a sustainable economic recovery and tackle climate change by ignoring our home grown potential in the clean energy sector,” says Greenpeace NZ Climate Campaigner Nathan Argent.

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Increased subsidies for fossil fuels are fiscally irresponsible and pose a major threat to our clean, green reputation and our economy, Greenpeace says.

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Greenpeace is appealing the High Court’s decision declining it the status of a charitable organisation.

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Today’s announcement that the Government is considering a $400 million dollar subsidy for the stalled South Island damming project to irrigate and expand intensive dairy is a sign that the Government has an economic strategy completely out of step with the direction of the rest of the world.

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OPOTIKI — The flotilla opposing deep sea oil drilling with replenished supplies and crew quietly left Wharekahika this afternoon for the Raukūmara Basin.

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Auckland, New Zealand brands of canned tuna are selling fish which has been caught using methods that are wiping out the main source of our tuna stocks from the Pacific and are killing endangered marine life, says Greenpeace.

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OPOTIKI — Police board te Whanau a Apanui fishing vessel San Pietro and arrest the skipper for fishing in front of oil survey ship orient explorer.

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Around midnight flotilla yacht Secret Affair was contacted by Police from the Navy vessel HMNZS Taupō.

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On the eve of the first anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster, Greenpeace has released a report detailing how BP tried to hide the true impacts of the biggest oil disaster in American history.

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OPOTIKI — Today activists aboard the flotilla opposing deep sea oil drilling disrupts the seismic testing by Brazilian oil giant Petrobras.

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The Prime Minister John Key yesterday evening revealed on Radio New Zealand’s Wātea News that he’s been poorly informed on deep sea drilling plans for New Zealand.

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OPOTIKI — The first flotilla boat opposing deep sea oil drilling S/V Infinity encountered the seismic testing ship Orient Explorer in the Raukumara Basin at around 16:45 yesterday, a little over 24 hours since the deep sea oil exploration vessel left Tauranga.

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Yesterday afternoon a support flotilla of 20 yachts, kayaks, tinnys and tira waka escorted a group of four yachts heading to Whangaparāoa Bay by Cape Runaway on the East Cape of the North Island to join te Whānau-a-Apanui in their campaign to defend the coast from deep sea oil exploration.

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In response to a call to oppose deep sea oil drilling from East Cape iwi Te Whanau a Apanui, a flotilla of ships is to set sail from Auckland, for the East Cape, this Sunday.

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Greenpeace is calling on New Zealand brands to follow the lead of overseas canned tuna sellers to stop sourcing fish caught using methods which kill sharks and turtles.

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Greenpeace is demanding that Japan’s Government finally end its commercial whaling programme and re-open an investigation into corruption scandals inside the industry, following today’s announcement by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries that it has recalled its Antarctic whaling fleet from the Southern Ocean, marking the fleet’s shortest ever season [1].

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The increased quota for southern bluefin tuna puts the species on the fast track to extinction, says Greenpeace.

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Greenpeace says that yesterday’s action on board the MV Great Motion leaves the Government with no option but to decide on what its policy is on palm kernel, and that the only option is to put a stop to its use.

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NEW PLYMOUTH — Four Greenpeace activists remain inside the cranes on the palm kernel bulk carrier MV Great Motion.

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NEW PLYMOUTH — Greenpeace activists have this morning boarded a shipment of palm kernel to prevent it from being unloaded at Port Taranaki, New Plymouth.

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If Solid Energy’s newly announced briquette plant ever goes into production, it will be a crime of global significance, for which New Zealand’s biggest company, Fonterra, and the New Zealand Government, will be to blame.

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Greenpeace is calling on the Government to pay heed to President Obama’s commissioned report on the BP Gulf of Mexico oil spill – and cancel all new offshore oil drilling tenders and permits.

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Greenpeace is calling on the Government to cancel all new offshore oil drilling tenders and permits that have been granted by Crown Minerals to new offshore oil exploration by international oil companies.

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Following the publication of the Sunday Star Times story "Russian roulette with palm kernel imports," (1) Greenpeace is calling on the Government to put an immediate stop to Fonterra’s use of imported palm kernel feed.

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  Greenpeace is urging the US and fishing nations to agree to bold measures to protect Pacific tuna, at a vital meeting in Honolulu this week.

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  Despite the central billing given to sustainability at this year’s World Dairy Summit, it is clear that to Fonterra this relates to profits and growth, not the future of the planet.

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AUCKLAND CITY —   Greenpeace is urging Fonterra not to ignore the important discussions about the links between sustainability, climate change, and dairying that will be taking place at this week’s World Dairy Summit.

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Fonterra has apparently ‘pulled the plug’ on its Facebook page, rather than answer the questions being submitted to it by members of the public on the company’s use of palm kernel expeller (PKE).

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The latest edition of the Greenpeace Guide to Greener Electronics shows significant separation between companies that are failing to keep their environmental commitments and those that are making significant gains in phasing out toxic chemicals, increasing energy efficiency, and making it easier for consumers to recycle older products.

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Oil-smeared' people walked through central Wellington today to protest Energy and Resources Minister Gerry Brownlee's reckless determination to dig and drill for more dirty fossil fuels while ignoring the impacts on climate change.

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NZ dairy giant Fonterra's industrial dairying approach is driving production beyond the limits.

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None of Canada’s major supermarket chains will be selling orange roughy after leading retailers dropped the species due to sustainability concerns, Greenpeace reports.

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Greenpeace says a box locked into a lift at the Fonterra building during this morning’s protest played a sound recording and posed no threat.

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Greenpeace is condemning dairy giant Fonterra’s weak ‘claim’ that “it believes” its palm kernel animal feed comes from sustainable sources.

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Following new evidence, Greenpeace demands that Fonterra and the Government put an end to New Zealand's importation of palm kernel grown on areas of destroyed rainforest.

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As the deadline for submissions on Energy and Resources Minister Gerry Brownlee’s Draft Energy Strategy draws to a close (at 5pm Thursday), Greenpeace is telling the Government that it is not too late to embrace the global Clean Energy revolution – in fact the timing’s perfect.

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Greenpeace is calling on the New Zealand Government to support a plan to make the Pacific's tuna fisheries sustainable following further reports of declining stocks.

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New Zealand must stop fishing for Antarctic toothfish in the Ross Sea says Greenpeace.

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Greenpeace says a plan to increase the catch limits of several bottom trawled New Zealand fish species highlights how out of touch the Ministry of Fisheries is with international markets.

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Following Greenpeace UK's successful action against BP's petrol stations in London (see below), Greenpeace is reminding the New Zealand Government that, like BP, it needs to move beyond the prevailing 19th century mindset regards fossil fuels.

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Greenpeace volunteers covered themselves in 'oil' today to send a strong message to the Government to stop its plans for the drilling of new deep water oil wells off New Zealand's coast.

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Greenpeace today welcomed the Government's about-face on Energy and Resources Minister Gerry Brownlee's plans to allow the mining of this country's most precious Schedule 4 protected public conservation lands.

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Greenpeace says it is disappointing governments have failed to break the IWC deadlock over the future of the world’s whales.

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A Greenpeace activist facing prison for saving whales is calling on leaders to take political risks to rescue the International Whaling Commission and whales ahead of the annual meeting which starts in Morocco today.

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Greenpeace New Zealand congratulates New Zealand’s Climate Change ambassador Adrian Macey on his election to vice-chair of the Kyoto Protocol negotiations.

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Governments investing in a greener future have the potential to massively cut global carbon emissions and create millions of jobs but New Zealand risks missing this opportunity, says Greenpeace.

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In the midst of one of the worst oil spills in history the Government’s offshore oil exploration announcement sounds like a bad joke, says Greenpeace.

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The world’s largest container shipping company, Maersk, refuses to ship a number of at-risk marine species including several caught by New Zealand fisheries, reports Greenpeace.

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Version 15 of Greenpeace’s Guide to Greener Electronics (1) sees Samsung, Toshiba and Dell, all picking up penalty points for backtracking on their self proposed timelines to eliminate some of the worst toxic substances from their products.

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The Government would be wise to chalk up its schedule 4 mining plans as an idea it got horribly wrong, says Greenpeace in its submission on the proposals.

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WELLINGTON CITY — A public rally in front of parliament next Wednesday, June 2, will deliver thousands of petitions urging the Government to save whales, not whaling.

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Today’s budget confirms the Government has completely failed to understand that New Zealand’s economic future is intrinsically tied to our environment, says Greenpeace.

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According to the most substantive poll on the mining issue to date, the Key Government’s mining plans are opposed by 30% of those who voted National in at the last election (1).

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Greenpeace activists have blocked the coal depot of Fonterra’s Clandeboye factory near Timaru, using a truckload of alternative fuel, saying the company is damaging the climate by burning coal when cleaner solutions exist.

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AUCKLAND CITY — Over 40,000 people turned out today to a march against the Government’s mining plans.

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AUCKLAND CITY — A coalition of environment groups including Greenpeace, has announced a public march against the Government’s mining plans on May 1 in Auckland.

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Greenpeace says the Government must stop fishing orange roughy, after two more major international retailers confirmed they’ve dropped the fish from sale due to sustainability concerns.

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Greenpeace says the kind of international backlash seen today in the Economist magazine (1) demonstrates that John Key’s Government is putting the New Zealand economy at risk with its 19th century economic thinking.

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The New Zealand Government’s support for a proposal that could usher in a new era of commercial whaling has met with fierce opposition from animal welfare and environmental groups.

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The New Zealand Government is pushing the world’s bluefin tuna to extinction, says Greenpeace.

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Food and beverage company Nestle has overnight suspended direct contracts with its main supplier of palm oil, after a Greenpeace report was released implicating the company in the destruction of rainforest, which is pushing orangutans to the brink of extinction.

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Nestlé is using palm oil from destroyed Indonesian rainforests and peatlands, in products like Kit Kat, pushing already endangered orang-utans to the brink of extinction and accelerating climate change.

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A mock weigh-in of a six metre replica whale ‘caught’ by John Key has appeared in front of his electorate office with Greenpeace calling on him to reject any deal that would legitimise commercial whaling.

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The Government’s assurances of "boutique", "surgical" mining in areas with low conservation value seem to have disappeared down a mine shaft, says Greenpeace.

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The New Zealand Government’s sell-out at the International Whaling Commission (IWC) could effectively see a return to commercial whaling, says Greenpeace.

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AUCKLAND — The New Zealand Government’s sell-out at the International Whaling Commission (IWC) could effectively see a return to commercial whaling, says Greenpeace.

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Greenpeace today called on a panel hearing an application by AgResearch to put human and other genes into a broad range of animals to reject the application and terminate the hearing immediately.

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A fish species about to be added to the New Zealand quota management system (QMS) has been dropped from sale by three of Canada’s eight major supermarket chains in the past year due to sustainability concerns, says Greenpeace (1).

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Greenpeace is calling on the Japanese ambassador to ensure the fair trial of two Greenpeace activists, following a UN report criticising Japan for breaching human rights during the pair’s detention.

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Greenpeace is calling for the closure of the southern bluefin tuna fishery andthe immediate withdrawal of a “scandalous plan” to increase New Zealand’s quota for the critically endangered fish (1).

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Greenpeace is warning the Government it could face civil disobedience and an international backlash if it proceeds with mining on conservation land.

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Greenpeace today welcomed the positive tone of John Key’s opening speech to the climate change negotiations in Copenhagen (1) and urged him to back his words with a fresh approach to the negotiations.

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The target ranking system (1) John Key has been relying on (2) to claim New Zealand’s placed well at the climate talks in Copenhagen has just changed the ranking of New Zealand’s target to “inadequate”- the worst ranking possible.

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Greenpeace has welcomed the announcement by Spicers Papers New Zealand that it is phasing out paper products from Indonesia due to public concerns about environmental and sustainability issues.

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New Zealand is bringing a bad attitude to the climate talks in Copenhagen, thinking it can bully small and vulnerable states which are already suffering in the front line of climate change.

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French Polynesia — Greenpeace has slammed the refusal of Asian distant water fishing nations Korea, China, Taiwan and Japan to agree effective new measures to urgently halt the decline of tuna stocks at the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC).

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The New Zealand delegating team in Copenhagen has the chance to help shape the course of human history over the next two weeks and it must not waste it, says Greenpeace.

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A call to protect the Pacific Ocean's rapidly dwindling tuna stocks has been made to the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC).

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A second New Zealand company has been exposed for its role in Indonesian rainforest destruction.

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AUCKLAND CITY — A human chain of protesters piled sacks labelled ‘Fonterra palm kernel’ and ‘Fonterra coal’ outside Fonterra’s corporate headquarters today in protest of greenhouse gas emissions caused by the dairy giant’s intensive farming practices.

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AUCKLAND CITY — Greenpeace public protest will bring climate crimes to Fonterra's door.

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Actress Lucy Lawless and top climate scientist Jim Salinger will visit Parliament today to present Prime Minister John Key with nearly $5,000 to help get him to the Copenhagen climate talks in December.

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A major review of Japanese government spending could spell the end to whaling in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary, according to Greenpeace, after the review committee proposed massive cuts in subsidies to a body which funds the so-called scientific research programme.

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An international team of Greenpeace activists, in the heart of Indonesia's threatened rainforests, has called on United States President Barack Obama to take urgent action on climate change.

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Greenpeace is supporting calls to tighten regulations on bottom trawling by the South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organisation in Auckland this week.

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With the crucial Copenhagen Climate summit approaching rapidly, IT heavyweights such as Google, Microsoft and IBM are still hesitating to speak up on the urgent need for emissions reductions, the latest Greenpeace Cool IT leaderboard reveals.

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Greenpeace’s oceans mascot, Sad Fish, will visit New Plymouth next week as part of a nine week nationwide tour to safeguard the future of New Zealand fisheries.

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AUCKLAND — New Zealand’s involvement in the palm industry and rainforest destruction will be the focus of a public meeting in Auckland next week.

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Greenpeace has renewed its call for John Key and dairy giant Fonterra to stop the import of palm based animal feed because of its devastating climate impact, by painting a large slogan reading “Fonterra climate crime” on a shipment in the Port of Taranaki.

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Cook Islands — Greenpeace today called for the arrest of the captain of the Japanese ship Koyo Maru 3, which was caught fishing illegally in the Cook Islands.

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Norway's newly re-elected Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg has just announced a 40% emission reductions target at the UN climate talks in Bangkok, upping the pressure on developed countries like New Zealand to do the same.

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Encouraging news from HP and Apple shows their positive response to Greenpeace’s campaign for greener electronics.

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John Key’s Government today admitted that production of palm kernel animal feed is helping destroy Indonesian and Malaysian rainforests.

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TAURANGA — Greenpeace activists removed by police from blockading a shipment of palm kernel animal feed at Tauranga port say their actions have highlighted Fonterra’s climate crime and are continuing their calls to John Key to force the multinational to stop future imports.

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TAURANGA — Greenpeace activists have blocked a shipment of palm kernel animal feed from Indonesia, entering Tauranga Port and destined for Fonterra dairy farms.

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