Hi John,

We’re back with your latest Stay Connected and what an amazing month it’s been! In this edition - you’ve made history with The Big Plastic Count, we’re celebrating 40 years since the whaling moratorium and sharing highlights from our best Glastonbury ever. 

Your unwavering support is crucial in helping us work towards securing a safer, greener, more peaceful world. 

Nothing changes without you, John, and we can't thank you enough for standing with us now and in the future. Happy reading, and thanks for making this all possible!

You’ve made history!

Nearly a quarter of a million people like you have just made history by taking part in The Big Plastic Count - the biggest ever investigation into plastic waste. This May, UK households, schools, businesses, community groups and MPs came together to do something practical to help tackle the plastic crisis.

The startling results suggest that the UK’s homes produce 96.6 billion pieces of plastic packaging waste a year, with only 12% being recycled in the UK. 

So what’s next? We’ll use these results to put pressure on the government to set proper targets on reducing our plastic waste. We hope that these results will open the government’s eyes to the true scale of the plastic problem so that they have to do something meaningful about it.

To everyone who’s been involved so far a massive thank you – you have been part of something truly amazing!

Glastonbury 2022

What an amazing Glastonbury that was! Each year, festival-goers come together and celebrate the diversity of people, nature and our planet as a whole and people did not disappoint, almost two thousand people signed up as new Greenpeace supporters and as always, we had an amazing Greenpeace Field filled with a skate park, our infamous vertical-drop slide, a plant-based cafe and our 22m high Rave Tree!

One of the highlights was walking with our Festival charity friends Oxfam & WaterAid (plus hundreds of festival-goers that added their name and marched with us too) to call on world leaders at the G7 to take action on climate now.

Thank you to everyone that took part and those at home who made this happen.

In pictures: How we stopped commercial whale hunting 40 years ago and how you can continue to protect our oceans

Whales are incredible creatures. They are the largest animals on earth, can be found in all oceans and play an important role in the marine environment. 

However, commercial whaling devastated several whale species, pushing some of them to the very brink of extinction in the first half of the 20th Century. 50,000 whales were killed yearly by 1930, which led to a rapid decline in whale numbers. Whaling for meat, oil, or whalebone was not new, but explosive harpoons and industrial factory ships plundering the seas for whales were. 

Thanks to supporters like you, this year, we are celebrating 40 years since the whaling moratorium! In 1982, at a landmark conference in Brighton, the International Whaling Commission (IWC) decided there should be a pause in commercial whaling from 1985 onwards. Known as a whaling moratorium, the ban allowed some types of whales to recover their populations.

Will you help us continue to safeguard our oceans in a world where commercial whaling is still practised and where our whales still face so many other threats?

Less meat, less heat

Even if we stopped using fossil fuels tomorrow, without the Government significantly reducing meat and dairy, we would still be heading towards catastrophic levels of warming well beyond 1.5 degrees. 

What we eat is an emotive topic. It’s part of who we are, it’s woven into our memories and our cultures. That’s partly why meat and dairy is one of the big threats to our planet that isn’t getting the action it needs. Even when the Government’s own advisors called for a reduction in meat and dairy, the Government ignored them and left it out of their new Food Strategy.

But the science is clear, our food system is broken. Meat and dairy production is the biggest driver of global deforestation and contributes 19% of climate emissions. It’s wasteful too, 83% of global farmland is used for livestock and their feed crops, but the meat and dairy produced accounts for only 18% of the calories consumed by humans.

But by legislating to reduce meat and dairy, and using better land management we can feed more people, provide healthier diets, tackle the climate crisis, and free up vast amounts of land to restore nature. 

Will you join us in calling the UK government to reduce meat and dairy 70% by 2030 and ban imports of animal feed that are fueling deforestation in places like Brazil right now?

(Or if you still have unanswered questions,

check out our explainer blog on why industrial meat is bad for the planet)

Protecting forests shouldn’t mean murder. Let’s demand justice for Bruno and Dom.

This month, we received the heartbreaking news that Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira and British journalist Dom Phillips were murdered for protecting the Amazon.

The Amazon should be a safe haven for the people, plants and animals that call it home. Many Indigenous communities such as the Karipuna have called the Amazon home for centuries. In this article, we share how the Karipuna defend against the destruction of nature in the name of ‘development’.

The greatest tribute we can pay Bruno and Dom is to continue their vital work until all of Brazil’s peoples and their forests are fully protected. 

What we’re reading and watching this month:

•  🦈Hooked on Sharks: A Greenpeace report released on Thursday for Shark Awareness Day, finds that EU fishing fleets from Spain and Portugal are consistently fishing in shark nursery grounds. 
•  🦈Lonely Shark: To coincide with the report, Greenpeace released a short animated film titled The Lonely Shark, featuring a soundtrack by Radiohead’s Thom Yorke. 
• 🌸When concrete starts to bloom: From bee bus stops to hedgehog highways, find out how local communities are coming together to bring nature back into their neighbourhoods. 
• 💚Simon Pegg at Glastonbury: Simon Pegg talks about Greenpeace, Glastonbury and Tom Cruise: "He'd bring his own toilet"

Remember, we want to stay connected with you; whether you have a question about Greenpeace's work or your support, we're here to help. My team is available to call on 020 4525 3241 Monday – Friday, 9am – 5.30pm, or feel free to email any questions you may have to [email protected]. 

Together we are Greenpeace and we will achieve many more amazing things for a green and peaceful planet for all. 

Be safe and be well. 

Carolyn Hoskin

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