Tag: Greenpeace Pacific
Back-to-back cyclones in Vanuatu – stories of survival in ‘tough go’
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist
People in Vanuatu remain optimistic about their future after two destructive cyclones in two days left parts of the...
Peacemonger – a tribute to peace researcher Owen Wilkes out soon
Raekaihau Press
Owen Wilkes (1940–2005) was known throughout the Pacific and across the world as an outstanding researcher on peace and disarmament.
His work:
• exposed plans...
Tahiti’s nuclear compo advocate to be honoured in French Polynesia
RNZ Pacific
The office of the Tahitian president says it wants to honour the memory of Bruno Barrillot who was the head of French Polynesia's...
Russel Norman: Don’t be fooled by NZ greenwashing, the lack of...
ANALYSIS: By Russel Norman, executive director of Greenpeace Aotearoa
Only people power can ensure genuine enduring progress on climate and people need to know the...
Australia accused of ‘bullying’ Pacific over climate action, ‘buying silence’
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
Australia is accused of using "diplomatic strong-arm tactics" to water down outcomes in Pacific climate negotiations and "buy silence" on climate...
Davey Edward, Rainbow Warrior campaigner in Rongelap, dies at 68
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
A former Rainbow Warrior campaigner and Greenpeace International technical manager, Davey Edward, has died in Perth, Australia. He was 68.
Edward had...
Case #017 RNZ podcast – The bombing of the Rainbow Warrior
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
On 10 July 1985 the Greenpeace flagship, the Rainbow Warrior, was sunk at an Auckland wharf.
Two French secret agents planted two limpet...
How Pacific environmental defenders are coping with the covid pandemic
SPECIAL REPORT: By Sri Krishnamurthi of Pacific Media Watch
In this new covid-19 world, environmental and climate crisis defenders are developing new ways to cope...
French nuclear tests: ‘I bury people nearly every day, what was...
By Matthew Scott, reporting for the Pacific Media Centre
The day began with a video, showing a disparate collection of arresting images - the drowned...
35 years on, Tahiti’s Temaru likely guest in Rainbow Warrior rewind
Flashback: Tagata Pasifika's John Pulu talks to Oscar Temaru in 2016.
By David Robie
One of the champions of the South Pacific’s nuclear-free and independence campaigners,...
Journalist tells of Rainbow Warrior bombing, Pacific fallout on ABC
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Pacific environmental and political journalist David Robie has recalled the bombing of the original Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior 33 years ago...
Australia accused of ‘bullying’ Pacific neighbours out of climate compo
Pacific Media Report Newsdesk
Australia has picked up a second Fossil of the Day award at COP23 in Bonn for seeking to twist, water down...
Climate change champion, Nobel nominee Tony de Brum mourned
By Shawn Raymundo and Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Former Republic of the Marshall Islands Foreign Minister Tony de Brum, a Pacific champion of climate change...
Trump’s pullout from Paris climate pact ‘threatens lives’ of Pacific people
Pacific Media Watch News Desk
President Donald Trump's move to pull the United States out of the Paris Climate Agreement is a grave moral injustice,...
