GREENPEACE ACTION!

GREENPEACE BIODIVERSITY CAMPAIGN ACTIONS 1996:



1997 ACTIONS


2 December 1996: ACTIVISTS FIRED AT with rubber bullets and held in jail - The battle over the import of genetically altered food turns violent.

28 November 1996: ACTIVISTS BLOCK HARBOUR to prevent first direct shipment of genetically engineerd soya beans entering the UK - With Photographs.

19 November 1996: GREENPEACE STOPS GENETICALLY ENGINEERED SOYBEAN destined for Europe on the Mississippi River - Arrests follow action to confront grain giant - With Photographs.

7 & 11 November 1996: GREENPEACE BLOCKS SHIPMENTS of genetically engineerd soya - Actions highlight first imports to Europe - With Photographs.

26 October 1996: GREENPEACE PROTESTS at baptism of monster trawler in Norway - With Photographs.

16 October 1996: ACTIONS ACROSS EUROPE on world food day - Greenpeace calls on Unilever to reject genetic products - With Photographs.

10 October 1996: GENETICALLY ENGINEERED soybean crop 'quarantined' - as Greenpeace activists occupy Monsanto field in Iowa, USA. - With Photographs.

22 August 1996: ACTIVISTS HALT LOGGING of Russian old growth forest - harvesting machines occupied to stop the on-going destruction in one of the last remaining European old growth forests. - With Photographs.

16 August 1996: DAWN ACTION marks launch of campaign to ban U.S. factory trawlers - With Photographs.

1 August 1996: ACTIVISTS BLOCKADE world's largest self propelled log barges at Haida Gwai, British Columbia.
-With Real Audio

23 June 1996: GREENPEACE CONFRONTS INDUSTRIAL FISHERIES in the North Sea. Dramatic scenes as factory trawlers get tough on the Wee Bankie.
        With QuicktimeVideo and Real Audio

14 June 1996: GREENPEACE BLOCKADE of Norwegian whalers ends as local thugs threaten violence.
        With QuicktimeVideo and photos

13 May 1996: BISCUIT GIANT CRUMBLES before puffin protest. Brand leader commits to recipe change. With Photographs.