Protect
At the heart of our work is the knowledge that a healthy environment is essential to a green and peaceful world. We work to protect biodiversity in all its forms, from great global forests and oceans, to mighty rivers and plains. We aim to safeguard and restore the essential ecosystems for a healthy planet and all who call it home.
What you can do
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Contact your electorate MP
Our local Member of Parliament (MP) represents us, and acts in our name. Use the list of MPs below to contact your own local MP on the environmental issue that you’re passionate about.
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PETITION: Stop the corporate power grab RMA reforms
The Luxon Government has launched another attack on nature and Te Tiriti o Waitangi. Former Big Tobacco lobbyist turned Minister, Chris Bishop, is planning to rewrite our core environmental protection law – the RMA – to gut protections for nature, erase the Treaty of Waitangi, and turn land ownership into a license to pollute. And…
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PETITION: Time to resist
Billionaires and corporations are attempting a takeover of democracy to stifle dissent and limit our efforts to protect nature and the climate. Using their vast fortunes, they lobby to weaken regulations meant to protect people and the planet, fund candidates who serve their interests, and gain control of the media to shape the stories we…
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A Dirty Deal for Dirty Water – Government’s $56m irrigation subsidy blasted by Greenpeace
Greenpeace is blasting the Government’s latest $56 million irrigation subsidy, calling it a ‘dirty deal for dirty water’.
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Greenpeace International begins groundbreaking Anti-SLAPP case to protect freedom of speech
In a landmark test case of the European Union’s new legislation to protect freedom of expression and stop abusive lawsuits, Greenpeace International has overnight challenged the US oil pipeline company,…
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Wildly inaccurate figures used to justify ‘Shane’s $200 million fossil fuel slush fund’
A Cabinet paper justifying the Government’s $200 million subsidy for new gas fields used wildly inflated and inaccurate gas price figures.
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Stop Luxon’s freshwater pollution plan – submit before 27 July!
Right now, the Government is pushing ahead with plans to rewrite the rules that protect our lakes, rivers and drinking water. Their proposals would give more power to corporate polluters…
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Letter to Prime Minister Luxon urging sanctions on Israel over Gaza genocide
Dear Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Rt Hon Winston Peters,
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Greenpeace Aotearoa Submission on GCSL’s resource consent applications to build and operate a waste-to-energy incinerator in Te Awamutu
This is a submission by Greenpeace Aotearoa on the publicly notified application by Global Contracting Solutions Limited (GCL) to establish and operate a waste-to-energy incineration power station in Te Awamutu.
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How the Global Ocean Treaty can boost climate action
In December 2019, Greenpeace International released 30×30 In Hot Water: The climate crisis and the urgent need for ocean protection. This makes the scientific case for creating a network of marine…
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Achieving the 30×30 target through the Global Ocean Treaty
Through the Global Ocean Treaty, the global community can deliver the 30×30 target and ensure the long-term health and sustainability of the ocean beyond borders.
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Gambling with the deep sea: Those betting on mining the Arctic
The Norwegian government has announced a decision to open up a vast area of its continental shelf in the Norwegian and Greenland Seas to deep sea mining.
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EXPERT BRIEFING: Govt undoing protections for drinking water safety
After the world’s largest recorded campylobacteriosis outbreak occurred in Havelock North in 2016, the National-led Government established a formal inquiry into what went wrong and lessons for the future. This…
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30×30: From Global Ocean Treaty to Protection at Sea
This report details the cumulative threats facing our oceans and includes a new global analysis of high seas fishing activity. It details how ocean warming, acidification, pollution and the emerging…
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NES-Drinking Water and Nitrate Contamination – Greenpeace briefing to Ministers
Greenpeace’s briefing to Ministers on NES-Drinking Water and Nitrate Contamination. Healthy water for all.
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Greenpeace Aotearoa submission on Taumata Arowai Proposed Drinking Water Standards
Everyone should have access to clean and safe drinking water. But instead of protecting drinking water, the Government is proposing an increase of highly toxic substances in drinking water. Here is the Greenpeace submission.