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Our message was clear: Hands Off conservation land!
Snapshots from the March for Nature, Auckland on 19 September 2026
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Q&A: New Zealand complicity in US deep sea mining
Everything you need to know about New Zealand’s involvement in helping the USA’s push for deep sea mining in the Pacific.
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We love nature and we will fight to protect what we love
Russel Norman, Greenpeace Executive Director, spoke to thousands at the March for Nature on 19 September 2026. This is his speech.
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Burdening NZ with $22 billion debt for Uncle Sam’s Wars?
Do we really want to spend $22 billion on warships whose only function is to slot into the US war machine?
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Raiding the IVL again to pay for the bed tax
The International Visitor Conservation and Tourism Levy (IVL) is being raided yet again by the Government, this time to replace the bed tax it had previously promised to consider.
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Dairy corporations have poisoned the well in Canterbury
Notes for my presentation to the Canterbury Regional Council
Breaking news, updates, and commentary from Greenpeace campaigners and issue experts.
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Greenpeace boards Government-owned vessel in deep sea mining protest
Greenpeace activists are occupying a New Zealand state-owned research vessel in Wellington this morning. The Tangaroa has just finished deep sea mineral exploration work for an American company, Glomar, that is vying to start mining in the Pacific as soon as 2027.
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Fonterra profits, rural families pay the price
Fonterra has announced a whopping $3.4 billion in profits, while rural communities can’t safely drink the water coming out of their kitchen taps.
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Environment Canterbury throws rural NZ ‘under the tractor’
Greenpeace says Environment Canterbury (ECan) has thrown rural households ‘under the tractor’ on the nitrate crisis.
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RMA reaction: Government demolishes cornerstone of environmental protection
The replacement RMA laws will allow companies to cause more pollution, contamination and environmental degradation in Aotearoa.
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Updated numbers: 35k marched for nature
More than 35 thousand people joined today’s March for Nature, to demand that the Government scrap the Conservation Amendment Bill.
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Opportunity climate policy a step in the right direction
Greenpeace Aotearoa has welcomed Opportunity’s policy to cut agricultural methane as a vital step toward tackling NZ’s biggest source of pollution.
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AI is worse for the environment than you think – here’s why
The System Shift podcast dives into one of the biggest climate blind spots of AI: the energy hunger behind AI chipmaking.
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Watch the documentary: Something in the Water
Something in the Water tells the story of people in Canterbury, NZ who are standing up for safe drinking water and swimmable rivers.
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Rainbow Warrior bombing: Call to continue fight against nuclear weapons
Samantha Hayes visited the Rainbow Warrior in Auckland this week.
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40 Years on: The Legacy of the Rainbow Warrior & Indigenous Resistance
Forty years after the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior, the spirit of resistance sails on. From anti-nuclear activism to climate justice, the push for transformation is inextricably tied to tino…
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Oral submission on the Regulatory Standards Bill
Greenpeace campaigner Gen Toop delivers the Greenpeace submission on the Regulatory Standards Bill.
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VIDEO Taking action to stop bottom trawling
Over the past two weeks the Rainbow Warrior has been at sea off the coast Aotearoa, documenting bottom trawlers and standing up for ocean protection.Greenpeace activists confronted two bottom trawlers…
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