For two years, we’ve been telling industry and Government that NZ has too many cows, and that big irrigation is killing our rivers and ruining our soil. We’ve fought for an end to Government funding for big irrigation schemes, and this year we won. Take a look at the history of our agriculture campaign.
A timeline of the early days of the Greenpeace agriculture campaign
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Govt rejects climate advice less than a week after deadly floods in Asia kill over 1400
The Government has today announced it is rejecting all of the Climate Change Commission’s recommendations.
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Greenpeace says Government’s war on nature has sparked a powerful nationwide resistance
Greenpeace says the Luxon Government’s “war on nature” has been met with an unprecedented wave of resistance from tens of thousands of New Zealanders over the two years since the coalition…
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Defending Nature – Acts of resistance to the Luxon Government’s war on nature: a timeline
The National-ACT-NZ First coalition was sworn in in late November 2023 – and wasted no time launching an all-out war on nature, unleashing a relentless onslaught of anti-environment initiatives. You…
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Ashburton town supply water sample nears national health limit for nitrate; almost double levels associated with reproductive risk
Greenpeace testing on Sunday revealed that a sample of Ashburton town water supply had reached nitrate contamination levels of 9.65mg/L.
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Plastic pollution: The crisis choking the oceans and marine life
Plastic waste invades every corner of our planet, and threatens sea life. But there’s still hope for a future free from plastic pollution.