Nick Young

The giant NZ dairy cooperative Fonterra have been exposed by a Greenpeace investigation as being responsible for destruction of rain-forests in Indonesia and Malaysia. Their intensive industrial dairy model requires NZ farmers to use supplemental feed - in this case palm kernels grown on land where up until very recently was pristine rain-forest inhabited by [...]

As part of the Great Whale Trail Greenpeace has been running a ‘name a whale competition’ followed by a ‘vote for your favourite whale name‘ poll.
The results have been somewhat surprising - ‘Mr Splashy Pants’ is leading the field by an uncommonly large margin.
Both BoingBoing and Reddit are running the Mr Splashy Pants as a [...]

We heard about this from the IWC two months but it sure is sad to hve it confirmed.
As the article says:
“The Yangtze river dolphin was a remarkable mammal that separated from all other species over 20m years ago. This extinction represents the disappearance of a complete branch of the evolutionary tree of life.”
A [...]

If there’s any more evidence needed that bottom trawling the ocean floor is an abhorrent practise - this should be enoug … THE DAMAGE IS VISIBLE FROM SPACE!!
From Grist: To you, this picture may look like ants marching in a desert, but among ocean experts, it has gone as viral as Britneys shaved head. What [...]

Here’s an interesting way of looking at the world.
Interesting to see that New Zealand is a right little fatty on fisheries exports which, given the mentality of one particular big fish, is a little scary.
Worldmapper allows you to see the world according to lots of different variables. Using ‘equal area cartograms’, otherwise known as [...]

Peter Talley of NZ’s own Talley’s Fisheries showing us how the fishing industry do PR in these parts. Good one Pete - you’re a master. Homer Simpson couldn’t have done it better. The kids probably need counseling and the shareholders will be stoked with this.
Here’s a choice quote:
I don’t believe in animal rights. I [...]

Now this is cool. Zetaprints has set up a website where you can choose a postcard, enter a message about why you think Japan should stop whaling, bung your name on it, pop through to paypal www.hotissues.org.nz/, and hey presto! They print it off and send it to a randomly generated address in [...]

This is funny. Greenpeace recently put out a nice stop motion photography video that Pubilcis Mojo NZ put together. It’s up on youtube and various Greenpeace websites and it’s worth a look. It’s pretty cool. But perhaps even better is this this spoof version…