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Oscar winners, Wallace and Gromit creators, and Greenpeace launch heartbreaking new animated film about the plight of the oceans
London, 15 January 2020 – Oscar-winners Olivia Colman and Dame Helen Mirren, along with Game of Thrones’ Bella Ramsey and Stranger Things’ David Harbour, star in a new animation that…
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Support the petition to ban harmful pesticides to safeguard our health and environment
Increasingly, many Kenyan families have experienced the loss of a loved one to cancer or know someone who has succumbed to the illness. In 2019, we have seen several prominent…
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Greenpeace on Inga III: Congo’s natural Resources belong to the Congolese – not to Multinationals
Kinshasa, 28 October 2019 Greenpeace Africa welcomes a new report from Resource Matters and Congo Research Group confirming suspicions that the $14 billion Inga III hydroelectric project in the Democratic…
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Indigenous leaders interrupt global summit to tell top brands: “our survival is at stake”
Johannesburg, South Africa, 24 October 2019 – Today, Indigenous leaders targeted CEOs and senior management of some of the world’s biggest brands, including Nestle, Unilever and Mondelēz, at a summit…
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International Day of Rural Women: The case of Baka from South Cameroon – Sylvie Djacbou Deugoue
In Cameroon, about half of my country is covered by forests. Home to incredible biodiversity, they are also central to the lives and livelihoods of many communities including the Baka.…
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Facing a burning crisis
18 September 2019 We are in crisis mode. At times it seems that the whole world is in flames. Europe’s summer was the hottest on record. Fires in the boreal…
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Greenpeace Africa calls on African states to work towards an ambitious global treaty for the oceans
Dakar, September 11th, 2019 – Today, Greenpeace urged African governments to work towards a strong global treaty for the oceans that could help protect at least 30% of the high…
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“Protected Status of Mukula Tree is Good News for Africa’s Miombo Woodlands” – Greenpeace Africa
Kinshasa, 30 August 2019. Greenpeace Africa documented large scale fraudulent logging of mukula timber in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in August 2016. Today, the protected status of the…
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Greenpeace calls on Governments to act ahead of Fires hitting Africa’s Rainforest
Kinshasa, 27 August 2019. Since August 21, more than 6,902 fires in Angola and 3,395 fires in neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo have been documented, predominantly in the savanna area.…
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The airpocalypse in the room: Greenpeace Africa responds to budget vote speeches
11 July 2019, Johannesburg — Today, Minister Gwede Mantashe delivered his budget vote speech for the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy and Minister Barbara Creecy delivered her budget vote…
