Tell Iceland to stop whaling

The Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise is on its way to Iceland and should arrive soon. Thanks to your support, we've made major advances in the campaign against Icelandic whaling, including forcing a sharp cut to Iceland's so-called "scientific" whaling program. But we still need your help. Please send a letter to the Prime Minister of Iceland. You can also show the Icelandic government that whales are worth more alive than dead and join the more than 65 thousand people who have pledged to seriously consider visiting Iceland if Iceland stops whaling.

Take action! Write the Icelandic prime minister
http://prefs.greenpeace.org/mail-links/clicks/7716.1611865.5409

Take action! Take the pledge
http://prefs.greenpeace.org/mail-links/clicks/7717.1611865.5409

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Gen-Mais sprießt in diesen Wochen aus dem Boden. Gentechnisch verändertes Saatgut der Firma Monsanto wurde in Deutschland ausgesät.

Die gute Nachricht: Von den ursprünglich 1100 geplanten Hektar wurde aufgrund zahlreicher Proteste nun lediglich auf 400 Hektar Gen-Mais angebaut.

Wer sich gegen den Anbau wehren möchte oder als Verbraucher aktiv werden will, kann sich an unserer Mitmachaktion beteiligen. Wir haben Anzeigen vorbereitet, die Flächenbesitzer auf ihre Rechte, den Anbau von Gen-Pflanzen zu verhindern, aufmerksam machen. Viele Zeitungen oder Web-Seiten haben freien Platz, für den sie kostenlose Anzeigen annehmen. Schaltet Freianzeigen in Zeitungen eurer Region oder Web-Seiten, die über das Thema berichten.

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Damit ihr seht, wo genau der Gen-Mais wächst, vielleicht in eurer Nähe oder in der Nachbarschaft von Verwandten, haben wir eine Karte der Anbauflächen zusammengestellt. Ihr findet sie auf unseren Gentechnik-Seiten unter Anbau und Genpflanzen, Artikel Gen-Mais in Deutschland: http://www.greenpeace.de/themen/gentechnik

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*Genetically engineered (GE) crops contaminate fields and food around the world*

Montreal, 30 May 2005 - Greenpeace, farmers' organizations and community representatives today called on delegates to the Biosafety Protocol meeting to urgently introduce strict liability regulations to make companies accountable for the contamination and damage caused by their GE products.

In a written invitation to Canadian Environment Minister Stéphane Dion, the groups called on the minister to join them for the opening of the biosafety protocol meeting, for a Return to Sender activity in order to hand over to him Canadian GE canola found to be growing wild in Japan.

As predicted by environmental, farming and social movements, GE seeds have, since their introduction in 1996, contaminated food crops and the environment right across the globe. Over 50 incidents of illegal or unapproved GE contamination have been documented in 25 countries on 5 continents, and those are only the recorded incidents.

Illegal and unapproved GE contamination of seeds and crops has been recorded in maize in Mexico, rice in China, soya in Brazil, papaya in Thailand, oilseed rape in Europe, cotton in India, canola in Canada, and now, in the latest example, GE canola in Japan. In Chile, where the World Seed Congress starts today, Greenpeace is calling attention to the latest case of illegal maize seed contamination, the first to be found in this country highly dependent on its export seed industry.

"GMOs have been found growing in the fields of farmers who never asked for, nor ever wanted, GE anywhere near their fields. Yet instead of compensation the farmers have found themselves forced by sharp lawyers and intimidation to pay the GE seed companies -- for damage to the company's patent!" Greenpeace GE Campaigner Doreen Stabinsky said.

Potentially allergenic GE maize (Starlink) has contaminated food products on two continents and dangerous GE pharmaceutical crops have been discovered in silos of harvested crops in the USA. In the meantime, field trials or commercial growing of anything from pig vaccines to industrial plastics continues apace in the USA.

"If states don't act now to make producers and exporters accountable, further and more dangerous GMO contamination is around the corner," said Stabinsky.

Greenpeace demands negotiators immediately establish an interim liability regime and compensation fund for harm done to farmers, consumers or the environment.

"The evidence shows that GMOs may cause irreversible harm to ecosystems and biodiversity even far away from their country of origin. As long as no binding international liability regulations have been agreed, importing countries risk that they may have to pay for the damage themselves," said Stabinsky. "Under these conditions, countries should simply refuse to accept imports of GMOs."


Informant: STRIDER

Thanks for your support for the "Save the Dugong in Okinawa" campaign, Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has indicated in the Japanese Diet (parliament) that the construction needed to be stopped for a while!

However, the construction is still continuing at the site ignoring the words from the Prime Minister. It has been successfully blocked by the local activists who have been sitting on the scaffolds for 24 hours long every day for more than a month.

The cancellation of the plan is almost there, but local activists are exhausted--cold and windy on the scaffolds. We need your final push to Japanese government to make their decision now. Even if you have participated in the action, please do so one more time!

Take action!
Save the dugongs
http://prefs.greenpeace.org/mail-links/clicks/7273.1599071.5409