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Greenpeace protest deep sea mining at UN Ocean Conference
Nice, France, 11 June 2025 – Greenpeace France activists today deployed a large banner reading “three million people stand against deep sea mining” outside the UN Ocean Conference (UNOC) in…
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Coral killers – the bottom trawling image that shocked the world
On June 12 2005 Greenpeace captured evidence that bottom trawling was destroying deep sea coral in the Tasman Sea. This is the story of that photo.
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The true story behind the bottom trawling photo that shocked the world
20 years ago today, Greenpeace captured an image of bottom trawlers hauling up a giant piece of ancient coral in the Tasman Sea. The image sent shockwaves around the world - but how did we get it? And 20 years later, where are we at with the campaign to ban bottom trawling?
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Protected corals destroyed in six-tonne bycatch “disaster” from a single bottom trawl
BREAKING: It’s been revealed that a New Zealand bottom trawling vessel has pulled up six tonnes of protected stony coral in a single trawl – making it the worst reported case of coral destruction in New Zealand waters in over a decade.
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Greenpeace calls for international action to release the Madleen aid vessel
Greenpeace calls upon the international community to urgently uphold international law and ensure the immediate release of the Freedom Flotilla humanitarian vessel the Madleen along with its crew.
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2024 Annual Impact Report
In 2024, in the midst of a global climate and biodiversity crisis, we faced the full force of a new New Zealand Government determined to strip away environmental protections.
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Is New Zealand dairy farming the most efficient in the world?
New Zealand politicians, including the Prime Minister, regularly claim that our country’s dairy industry is “the most efficient” in the world. This is a common refrain, particularly when anyone –…
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Messages to Fonterra
We asked people from across Aotearoa to send messages that they wanted to share with Fonterra. And we received an overwhelming number of messages from people who are deeply concerned about Fonterra's environmental destruction.
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A defining moment in history: 40 years ago, the Marshall Islands fought to protect their future and defied the US
This is the story behind “Operation Exodus” - a ship called Rainbow Warrior and an island community, versus a huge colonial power that discredited the act as “manipulation” for Greenpeace’s anti-nuclear agenda.
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Greenpeace activists aboard the Rainbow Warrior disrupt industrial fishing operation in South Pacific
Greenpeace activists have disrupted an industrial longlining fishing operation in the South Pacific Ocean, seizing almost 20 kilometres of fishing gear and freeing nine sharks, including an endangered mako, near…
