We give this fragile Earth a voice
Greenpeace is independent. We don’t take donations from corporations or governments. We campaign globally for the environment.
Our mission is to ensure Earth’s ability to nurture life in all its diversity. We confront big issues with creativity. We use non-violent action. We seek to bring about systemic change.
Our vision
We believe a billion acts of courage can spark a brighter future. To that end, we try to model courage and share stories of bravery. We invite people out of their comfort zones – to act with us.
A green and peaceful future is our mission. It’s being built today.
Here in Aotearoa, we seek to bring to life a vision of a land and an ocean full of diversity and life. They should be free of pollution and protected, for all to enjoy. Our rivers should be clean again and our food produced in harmony with nature.
We want our homes, Marae, schools, businesses, and transport powered by renewable energy. And our towns, cities, and transport designed for people and communities.
We seek to change how food is produced on land and at sea. We should restore and regenerate nature, instead of polluting and depleting it. We are working to bring the fishing industry into line. It threatens precious marine life.
We also strive for a new circular economy. We want to end the throwaway culture by replacing single-use packaging with refill and reuse systems. We will not tolerate industries that rely on single-use plastics.
History
In 1971, our founders set sail to an island in the Arctic. Their mission? To stop a nuclear bomb. They never made it, but it was a journey that would spark a movement and make history.
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Te Tiriti o Waitangi
We seek to affirm Te Tiriti o Waitangi and have a constitutional policy that provides a foundation for guiding Greenpeace Aotearoa’s relationship with hapū and iwi Māori in its work in Aotearoa.
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Board and Governance
Our governance structure has been critical to Greenpeace's success as a global campaigning organisation, and to our success in Aotearoa New Zealand.
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What we're working on
Take action
PETITION: Clean drinking water now!
Join us in calling on Environment Canterbury to commit to enduring freshwater protections that ensure safe drinking water and swimmable rivers for all.
Say no to increased glyphosate food residue limits
The Govt is trying to allow 100 times more glyphosate residues on our food and rewrite the rulebook to fast-track more toxic agrichemicals into our food system.
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.
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…
This is how we win, together.
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Forty years of resistance in the Pacific
On 10 July 2025 in a dawn ceremony led by Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei, we commemorated the 40th anniversary of the state-sanctioned bombing of the original Rainbow Warrior in Auckland, and…
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Russel Norman on the significance of the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior after 40 years
Russel Norman speaks on the significance of the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior, 40 years on.
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Oppose mining in fragile ecosystems: Submission guide to stop RMA changes
It’s been revealed that in the latest in Luxon’s war on nature the mining industry didn’t just get a seat at the table – they basically grabbed the pen and rewrote the rules for their own profits.
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Fortieth anniversary of the Rainbow Warrior bombing
On July 10, 1985, at 11:48 p.m. and 11:51 p.m., two extremely powerful bombs planted by the French secret services sank the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior in Auckland Harbour in…
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You can’t sink a rainbow and you can’t silence hope
40 years since the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior.
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The Metals Company: 5 things to know about the company trying to start deep sea mining
What makes The Metals Company (TMC), a little-known company that isn’t even making any money, a threat to the ocean, international conventions, transparency and the clean energy transition?