The approach of Lunar New Year means it’s time for us all to collect fruits and candies in readiness for our annual round of visits to friends and relatives to celebrate the festival. Knowing that some of the fruits traditionally given as gifts at Lunar New Year were hazardous to our health would definitely dampen our festival mood? We first detected dangerous levels of pesticides in vegetables and fruits on April 2006 in Guangzhou and Hong Kong respectively. We have been tracking the supermarket’s and government’s monitoring to ensure food safety for consumers ever since. More information

What you can do:
“Go organic”? Download the booklet here

　　Fruits and vegetables contaminated with excessive amounts of pesticide are a threat to our health. The same is also true of food containing genetically engineered ingredients. Our GE food campaigning efforts over the years have resulted in several hundreds food producers in both Mainland China and Hong Kong committing to using no GE ingredients in their products. A further five food producers from the Mainland recently joined the list. More information

　　Public engagement is of vital importance in promoting our campaign for the elimination of toxic chemicals. Our campaign aims to highlight the dangers to our environment and human health from hazardous electronic waste and to promote our vision of a toxic-free future. Greenpeace organised a “toxic free future” themed Acappella concert at Beijing University on 28th December 06. More information

What you can do:
View the pictures of the “My Voice, My Future” Concert (Chinese only)

　　We are offering these unique, cool T-shirts, originally priced at $250, to members at the discounted price of $150. Order yours now before stocks run out!

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What you can do:
Take action to stop climate change in your daily lives:
Greenpeace China’s “Climate Truth” website – (Chinese only)

　　Apple’s charismatic CEO, Steve Jobs, recently launched Apple’s next killer device, the iPhone, at the Macworld conference in San Francisco. What we don’t understand is that as the industry’s pioneer, why is it that Apple are lagging so far behind in the race to produce toxic-free appliances. More information

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　　In late 2006 a single whaler, given a commercial license by the Icelandic government, hunted and killed seven fin whales. This caused huge public and political controversy, both in Iceland and internationally.

　　Now, some of our activists in Iceland have been hard at work, discovering almost 200 tonnes of meat and blubber from endangered fin whales still in storage - awaiting tests for chemical contamination. Our ship, The Esperanza, will shortly depart Auckland, New Zealand, to defend the whales in the freezing waters of the Southern Ocean against Japan’s whaling fleet.

What you can do:
Join the Defend the Whales team now? the whales are depending on us!
To know the truth about whale-hunting