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What is Straterra?
Straterra is a group that represents the mining industry in New Zealand. Its members include mining companies and well-known organisations such as Deloitte and Beca. Straterra runs campaigns to persuade the public about mining and tries to influence the government to help miners. Straterra lobbies on behalf of wannabe seabed miners Trans-Tasman Resources.
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Crashing Fonterra
Greenpeace went to Fonterra’s AGM and Shareholders’ Meeting last week, calling out Fonterra’s reliance on palm kernel.
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Greenpeace calls on Fonterra investors to consider big picture with giant puzzle
As Fonterra’s external investors meet at the corporation’s Auckland HQ, Greenpeace supporters have pieced together a giant puzzle revealing the cost of Fonterra’s use of palm kernel as cow feed - rainforest destruction and loss of rare wildlife in Southeast Asia.
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Guardians of the Ocean: the Pacific Islanders fighting Deep Sea Mining
Luckily for the world, there are people who’ve long known what deep sea mining puts at stake and have been fighting against it from all over the Pacific. To chart…
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Thousands call on government to drop Hauraki Gulf Bill changes
Alongside our allies, Greenpeace has today handed in a petition to parliament calling for the government to drop amendments that would allow commercial fishing in highly protected areas of the…
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Drinking water at 100 rural schools contaminated with cancer-causing nitrate
Greenpeace says it is deeply concerned about levels of nitrate in rural school drinking water, as a shocking new report has revealed that rural children are twice as likely as…
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Greenpeace confronts Fonterra AGM attendees with rainforest destruction, dying orangutans
Greenpeace has greeted Fonterra with images of deforestation and dying orangutans as shareholders arrive for their annual general meeting at the Devon Hotel in New Plymouth. The organisation is calling…
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Seabed miners lose attempt to limit Greenpeace protest at sea
An appeal court in the Netherlands has rejected attempts by seabed miners in the Pacific to limit the right to protest at sea. The Amsterdam Court of Appeal dismissed a…
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Time to address the cow in the room at COP29
As COP29, the UN climate conference, kicks off in Azerbaijan, Greenpeace says world leaders must hold agri-business to account for its climate pollution.
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How Greenpeace got SLAPPed by Big Oil for over $300,000,000
Are you a climate activist? A citizen concerned for the environment? If so, this guide to SLAPP cases might be just for you!