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The Coca-Cola Company and PepsiCo named top plastic polluters for the fourth year in a row
The Coca-Cola Company and PepsiCo are ranked as the world’s top plastic polluters for the 4th consecutive year according to Break Free From Plastic, whose latest global Brand Audit report…
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Trees don’t move – but sand dunes sure as hell do
35 years ago my mum was on a mission to plant pohutukawa trees at Pakiri beach, a peaceful spot two hours north of Auckland. She dreamed of having her mokopuna…
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Report indicates NZ trawlers dragged up over seven tonnes of protected coral
Greenpeace is calling for seamounts and similar ocean features to be protected from trawling, as the latest fishing bycatch data indicates the New Zealand fleet dragged up seven tonnes of…
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Vote toroa for bird of the year!
This year, we’re throwing our support behind the toroa in Forest & Bird’s Bird Of the Year competition. They’re in serious trouble and in need of our love and attention. In my work as the plastics campaigner here at Greenpeace Aotearoa, I see some of what our toroa contend with.
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Young Pasifika community leaders join call to ban seabed mining to protect moana
They are young, Pasifika and their message is clear: Ban seabed mining and protect the moana of the Pacific.
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I volunteer with Greenpeace Aotearoa because they are directly confronting problems
My name is Jenn Shulzitski, and I live near Blueskin Bay just north of Ōtepoti/Dunedin. Since I was a little girl, the wilderness has been my happy place, my play…
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Antarctica shows everything is possible when we work together – now we need leaders to make history again
30 years ago today, something remarkable happened. Governments around the world agreed to make the Antarctic off-limits to oil drilling and mining.
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Supreme Court slams door on seabed mining, time for a ban
Today the Supreme Court has unanimously dismissed Trans Tasman Resources’ (TTR) appeal of a 2018 High Court ruling which quashed the EPA’s decision in 2017 to give the Australian-led miners…
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NZ abstains on global seabed mining moratorium vote at IUCN
The New Zealand Government’s decision to abstain from voting in support of a deep sea mining moratorium at the IUCN World Conservation Congress has been met with sharp criticism from…
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Talley’s shifts blame for illegal bottom trawl onto skipper
Court papers have revealed that Talley’s deepwater fishing division, Amaltal, has shifted the blame for illegally bottom trawling in the Hikurangi Marine Reserve off Kaikōura, a year after the company…
