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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PETITION: End oil sponsorship of the Olympics
Tell the International Olympic Committee to commit to ending fossil fuel sponsorship for good.
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PETITION: Luxon, no minerals deal with Trump
Call on Luxon to say no to Trump’s demands for critical minerals
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PETITION: Stop dairy expansion!
Call on the NZ Parliament to end dairy expansions now to protect public health and fresh water.
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Don’t invest in ocean destruction
This is a warning to all potential investors in Manuka Resources: Don’t bankroll ocean destruction! Seabed mining will never take place in Aotearoa.
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Stop corporate intimidation!
Tell Energy Transfer and other corporate bullies: Stop your attacks on free speech.
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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
Add your name now to demand Chris Bishop abandon his dangerous RMA reform plan.
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PETITION: Time to resist
Now is the time to resist. Will you join the fight against the billionaire takeover?
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South Pacific Seamounts Expedition
We embarked on an exciting journey to uncover the secrets of the deep. Find out more here and see what’s at stake!
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PETITION: Tax the super-rich to pay for climate action
We urge governments to tax the super-rich now and use those funds to support people and protect the planet.
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PETITION: Stop Fonterra using Palm Kernel
Call on Fonterra to end the use of rainforest-destroying palm kernel on its farms.
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PETITION: STOP THE LNG TERMINAL
We call on the Luxon Govt to embrace a Clean Energy Future for NZ by investing in solar and wind generation, and rejecting new fossil fuel generation, new oil and gas exploration and all plans for a new fossil gas import facility.
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Open Letter to Stop the Fast Track
Sign on to this open letter to industry now to help push more of them to opt out of the Fast Track.
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PETITION: Hands off the water protections
Call on Christopher Luxon to leave New Zealand’s freshwater protections alone
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Tell Prime Minister Christopher Luxon to stop the rollback of freshwater protection
Every New Zealander should be able to swim in clean rivers and know that the water coming out of their kitchen tap is safe to drink.
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PETITION: Create global ocean sanctuaries
Call on the Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters to create new global ocean sanctuaries and protect our blue planet.
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PETITION: Ban bottom trawling in the Hauraki Gulf
Call upon the Minister for Oceans and Fisheries to ban all forms of mobile bottom-contact fishing including bottom trawling, scallop dredging and Danish seining within the Hauraki Gulf Marine Park.
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PETITION: Make big agri-polluters pay for their emissions
Join our call to make companies like Ravensdown and Ballance pay directly for their fertiliser emissions.
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PETITION: Keep corporate sponsors out of COP climate talks
Join the call on the United Nations to reject corporate sponsorship of international climate negotiations.
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PETITION: Reject fishing industry greenwash
Right now, the commercial fishing industry is desperately trying to undermine ocean protection once again.
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PETITION: Stop deep sea mining
It’s time for New Zealand to take a stand. Join our call on the New Zealand government to back a global moratorium on seabed mining.
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PETITION: Ban seabed mining in Aotearoa
Seabed mining is a new threat to the oceans. Now is our chance to prevent the destruction before it’s too late.
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PETITION: Get nitrates out of our drinking water
Call on the Government to lower the limit for nitrates in drinking water to safe levels
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Taxing Power Bills to Fund Fossil Fuels? No thanks
Why the government’s LNG terminal is the wrong decision for Aotearoa.
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Trans-Tasman Resources rejects the Fast Track panel’s findings – but the evidence against seabed mining is crystal clear
Trans-Tasman Resources has withdrawn its Fast Track application to mine the seabed off Taranaki. Read the evidence of the experts who submitted for Greenpeace on how seabed mining would impact marine mammals, seabirds, the benthic ecology, sediment plume, along with feasibility and economics.
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Govt announces critical mineral ‘slush fund’ as TTR flees the fast track
Today, as seabed miners Trans Tasman Resources (TTR) withdrew from their failing Fast Track bid, the NZ government has announced a$80 million dollar ‘critical minerals slush fund.’ Greenpeace is questioning if this signals an invitation for TTR to have another bite at the cherry.
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Seabed mining company TTR gives up on the Fast Track process – Greenpeace
Trans-Tasman Resources have responded to the Fast Track Expert Panel’s draft decision, saying they will not propose any changes to conditions.
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Environment groups join forces to call for ‘environmental reset’
Aotearoa’s leading environmental organisations are urging all political parties to make nature and climate an election priority and calling for an urgent ‘environmental reset’ in the first 100 days of…
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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.