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Coalition Warns Of Plan To Open Tens Of Millions Of Hectares Of DRC’s Forests To Timber Industry
Tuesday, 7 July 2026, 7:17 am | Greenpeace
The coalition stresses that, rather than expanding an extractive model with limited long-term benefits, the DRC has a unique opportunity to strengthen community forestry, improve forest governance and secure community land rights. More >>
Greens’ Policy Announcement A Win For Fresh Water And Oceans, But Labour Must Follow
Monday, 6 July 2026, 4:53 pm | Greenpeace
Nitrate contamination in drinking water has been linked to several health risks, including bowel cancer and preterm birth. More >>
March For Nature Launched To Protect Conservation
Friday, 3 July 2026, 8:02 am | Greenpeace
Greenpeace Executive Director Dr Russel Norman says the Conservation Amendment Bill is the latest in a series of attacks on nature that has brought growing public frustration to boiling point. More >>
Greenpeace Slams Issuing Of High Seas Permit For Tasman Sea Bottom Trawlers
Thursday, 2 July 2026, 1:58 pm | Greenpeace
"This vessel, with a history of bulldozing coral out in the biodiverse Tasman, could be out there right now causing more destruction. We are calling for this to stop," says Greenpeace oceans campaigner Ellie Hooper. More >>
Government Makes A Dog’s Breakfast Of The Conservation Consultation - Greenpeace
Thursday, 2 July 2026, 10:53 am | Greenpeace
Greenpeace is encouraging everyone concerned about the future of public conservation land to make a submission before the new deadline. More >>
Potaka Announcement Not Enough, Scrap Conservation Bill Says Greenpeace
Thursday, 25 June 2026, 2:45 pm | Greenpeace
"People across Aotearoa have spoken out in droves to defend the conservation estate and the Government are now scrambling around trying to fix their unfixable bill," says Greenpeace Aotearoa campaigner Gen Toop. More >>
New Map Highlights Mining Threat Associated With Controversial Conservation Reforms
Wednesday, 24 June 2026, 7:57 am | Greenpeace
"Our map shows that some of Aotearoa's most irreplaceable & world-renowned areas sit above minerals that mining corporations would no doubt love to plunder," says Greenpeace campaigner Gen Toop. More >>
March For Peace (Auckland)
Friday, 19 June 2026, 9:47 am | Greenpeace
The march is a public response to what organisers call a dangerous shift in domestic priorities and escalating imperial aggression. More >>
Jones Fails To Force Through Fisheries Amendment Bill Before Election, Following Public Backlash
Thursday, 18 June 2026, 1:58 pm | Greenpeace
Greenpeace and allies say the delay is the result of mass public outcry from ordinary New Zealanders, recreational fishers, legal experts and environmentalists. More >>
LNG Terminal Will Make Electricity More Expensive, Polluting And Unreliable
Tuesday, 9 June 2026, 9:26 am | Greenpeace
"It is ordinary New Zealanders who will end up paying for this terminal if it ultimately proceeds," says Dr. Russel Norman, Greenpeace Aotearoa Executive Director. More >>
Seamount Closures For World’s Largest Orange Roughy Fishery As Population Plummets
Friday, 5 June 2026, 4:54 pm | Greenpeace
Barry Weeber for ECO says it's time to learn from the lessons of the past and get serious about permanently protecting all orange roughy spawning areas including on seamounts and features. More >>
Danish Govt To Lower Drinking Water Nitrate Limit, Greenpeace Calls On NZ To Follow
Friday, 5 June 2026, 11:43 am | Greenpeace
Greenpeace Aotearoa says that New Zealand should follow in Denmark’s footsteps, calling nitrate contamination a ‘hidden public health crisis’ and warning that it will worsen if action isn’t taken. More >>
Budget 2026: Where Are The Solutions To Climate, Biodiversity And Fuel Crisis?
Thursday, 28 May 2026, 4:44 pm | Greenpeace
The Budget has money to repair state highways being damaged by extreme weather events but no plan or money to cut the climate pollution that is causing the damage. More >>
Southland Nitrate Investigation Delaying The Inevitable
Thursday, 28 May 2026, 9:56 am | Greenpeace
Greenpeace Aotearoa freshwater campaigner Will Appelbe says "The people of Southland don’t need more reports - they need urgent action to reign in intensive dairying and protect people's health from the nitrate crisis." More >>
Vision Versus Reality - Thousands Of Protected Animals Killed In One Year Of Trawling
Tuesday, 26 May 2026, 8:24 am | Greenpeace
The data, covering the latest full fishing year (24-25), shows trawl operations were responsible for the deaths of over 1,000 seabirds and hundreds of marine mammals, alongside the destruction of tonnes of habitat building coral. More >>
Govt Forced To Admit Its Fossil Gas Story Was Always A Fairytale
Monday, 25 May 2026, 4:21 pm | Greenpeace
It's time to stop the Government’s $200m subsidy to fossil gas exploration and the multi-billion subsidy to the LNG import facility. If fossil gas can’t compete in the market then why should taxpayers subsidise it? More >>
Anti-War Aotearoa And Greenpeace Announce A March For Peace
Friday, 22 May 2026, 9:45 am | Greenpeace
The groups are urging the Government to implement fully independent foreign policy grounded in Te Tiriti o Waitangi, diplomacy, and international law. More >>
New Fuel Crisis Scorecard: Coalition Flunks, Labour Offers Few Commitments
Tuesday, 19 May 2026, 5:55 pm | Greenpeace
One of the most striking findings was that all the current governing parties continue to back the proposed LNG import terminal, despite the soaring imported gas prices and widespread warnings against it from a range of experts including the OECD. More >>
26,000 Strong Petition Urges No Minerals Deal
Tuesday, 19 May 2026, 3:03 pm | Greenpeace
Greenpeace illustrated the public opposition to the deal with a depiction of Luxon and Trump riding a US branded missile. More >>
Lumsden Water Supply Nitrate Contamination Above Preterm Birth Risk Level
Monday, 18 May 2026, 2:51 pm | Greenpeace
The New Zealand College of Midwives recommends that pregnant people exposed to drinking water nitrate above 5 mg/L ‘consider accessing an alternative water source’. More >>
