Ghost Birds

http://www.greenpeace.org.nz/oiloncanvas/ 'Like a countless assembly of small ghostly shadows urging us to do better' - The oil prints featured in this exhibition were made with imprints of the body of a little blue penguin dipped in the oil that killed it spilled by the Rena oil spill in the bay of Plenty. It and the other bird featured in the Oil on Canvas' exhibition are just two of an estimated 20,000 birds killed after the shipwrecked Rena spilled 350 tonnes of oil into the Bay of Plenty. It is hoped that the work can serve as a memorial to the creatures that lost their lives and as a stark warning against the far greater risk posed by deep sea oil drilling in NZ waters.

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• Greenpeace
• Rena
• oil spill
• Radiohead
• New Zealand
• Deep Sea Oil Drilling
• Petrobras
• Raukumara

[reydiyohed]

this is one of the best videos that greenpeace has come up with. brilliant.

[monkeyrecordsnz]

beautifully done

[catsfartrainbows]

Amazing video, the best I've seen by far. Fuck all you haters, all lving creatures deserve a chance in life, even that poor penguin. Btw what's the name of the song?

[MrMandapants]

dear kodiakfishaboy or whatever....I think you'll find greenpeace deal exclusively w. animal.environment based causes...there are other institutes in place to cover the issues of orhans and starvation. you should go hassle them about inadequacies....

[MissJadeGreen]

My opinion is not going to vanish just because those who support Greenpeace don't like it. Difference of opinion is inevitable, and vital. Greenpeace need to exist, just like oil and gas production needs to exist.

[kodiakfishaboy]

@constant765 I could not have wished for a more desirable archetype for my remonstration. In other words budy, your an answer to my prayers. What you just implied in your statement was that you would rather the starving families or formentioned parentless children of my arguement perished, than your precious little waddling friends. And that is the fundamental problem I have with green-peace organizations: Their ammoral valuing of an animal or tree's "life" over that of a human being.

[kodiakfishaboy]

@RudyBlueDog That maybe so, but I get fed up with green-peace making almost everything seem evil. The Rena was an accident and it's not like the captain purposly wrecked his vessel just to kill as much of your "countless assembly of small ghostly shadows" as he could, but greens are using it as propaganda for their pathalogical hatred of everything that is productive in any way ,

[phillibuster8787]

Greenpeace, I normally hate your marketing, but well done.

[RudyBlueDog]

@MissJadeGreen Doesn't sound to me like you supported them in the first place or you would have gotten what this video was about. Take your false umbrage elsewhere.

[RudyBlueDog]

@kodiakfishaboy How dare you think about starving families and orphans when cancer has not been cured.

I get so sick of hearing people make this kind of argument. There are a myriad of causes in the world. They all need attention. Promoting one cause isn't an indicator that that is the only cause cared about. Animals get far fewer resources than human causes, yet humans cause these problems. It's not asking too much that we fix the shit we cause. Less narcissism please.

[AllesMx]

OIL COMPANIES - ARE SHIT