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    Food&Farming

    Fonterra milking us dry and selling us out

    Fonterra doesn’t care about New Zealand. That’s Greenpeace Aotearoa’s message following the confirmation of sale of Fonterra’s consumer brands.

    Rhiannon Mackie
    30 October 2025
  • A person in a white hazmat suit spraying crops.
    Press release
    Food&Farming

    Greenpeace welcomes glyphosate ruling, urges NZ Food Safety to restart food safety testing

    Greenpeace welcomes a decision by New Zealand Food Safety to maintain maximum glyphosate residue levels on wheat, oats and barley at their current level of 0.1mg/kg, but now calls on…

    Russel Norman
    30 October 2025
  • March against Genetic Engineering in Auckland. © Greenpeace / Fotopress
    Story
    Health Food&Farming Biodiversity

    The Gene Tech Bill – Too Risky Even for Fonterra and NZ First

    The Luxon Government wants to remove GE safeguards and let GMOs free. Greenpeace isn’t the only one who is ringing the alarm bells.

    Gen Toop
    16 October 2025
    2 min read
  • Dairy cows behind bars in a milking shed
    Press release
    Climate Change Food&Farming

    Luxon “goes full Trump” with climate-denying methane backdown

    The NZ Government will rewrite NZ's once bipartisan climate change law to weaken methane targets and exclude agriculture from the ETS.

    Rhiannon Mackie
    12 October 2025
  • Projection onto the Fonterra headquarters in Auckland, showing a modified Fonterra sign reading “The nitrate emergency: It starts here”
    Press release
    Food&Farming Freshwater

    ‘Nitrate emergency starts here’: Greenpeace brings water crisis back to Fonterra’s HQ

    Greenpeace has taken rural New Zealand’s nitrate emergency straight to the top, by projecting a modified Fonterra sign reading “The nitrate emergency: It starts here” onto the dairy giant’s Auckland…

    Rhiannon Mackie
    9 October 2025
  • Giant replica of a Fonterra farm sign reading "Warning! Nitrate Emergency” outside the controversial Wongan Hills dairy conversion in the Kaituna Valley - Canterbury’s first complete dairy conversion this year.
    Press release
    Climate Change Food&Farming Freshwater

    ‘Nitrate emergency starts here’: Greenpeace pins blame on Canterbury dairy conversions

    ‘The Nitrate Emergency: it starts here.’ That’s what a freshly-installed Fonterra farm sign said outside Canterbury’s first complete dairy conversion this morning. Greenpeace installed the modified Fonterra sign saying that…

    Will Appelbe
    3 October 2025
  • Panoramic aerial view of a cow milking shed in New Zealand.
    Press release
    Climate Change Food&Farming

    International organisations condemn ‘no additional warming’ approach as NZ methane target decision looms

    Nearly 100 organisations have launched an open letter to governments calling for binding targets to cut industrial agricultural emissions.

    Rhiannon Mackie
    30 September 2025
  • Press release
    Food&Farming Freshwater

    $26b in dirty money: Fonterra cashes in after contaminating drinking water

    Dirty money: that’s what Greenpeace is calling the $26 billion in revenue brought in by dairy giant Fonterra over the last financial year.

    Rhiannon Mackie
    25 September 2025
  • Story
    Food&Farming Freshwater Health

    What Environment Canterbury’s Nitrate Emergency Declaration means for the region

    Regional council Environment Canterbury has declared a Nitrate Emergency.  But what does this mean for drinking water protections?

    Will Appelbe
    22 September 2025
    6 min read
  • Press release
    Food&Farming Freshwater

    Greenpeace applauds ECan for declaring nitrate emergency, calls for candidates to pledge real action

    Greenpeace is welcoming Environment Canterbury’s decision to declare a nitrate emergency, calling it a long-overdue acknowledgement of a worsening health crisis. But the organisation warns that real action must follow,…

    Rhiannon Mackie
    17 September 2025
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