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Our oceans are finally getting the top-table attention they deserve
Last month, as a result of our campaign, Boris Johnson gave public backing to an Antarctic Ocean Sanctuary. This was a big deal: he was the first Foreign Secretary around…
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Dairying in the Mackenzie – how far is too far?
When it comes to extremes we all have different limits. And sometimes we have to reach those nasty edges to appreciate they do exist. Extremes have been reached with the…
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Rich lister props up failing irrigation schemes, threatens NZ’s rivers
It’s been revealed that a rich-lister Gary Rooney looks set to bail out the ailing South Canterbury irrigation scheme, Hunter Downs. Rooney also bailed out another Canterbury irrigation scheme, the…
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Plastic pledge is rubbish
Greenpeace warns that today’s announcement of the “Beat Plastic Pollution” declaration is an industry-led false solution for tackling the scourge of plastic pollution in our oceans. Today, World Environment Day,…
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2012 Compliance Risk Profile of the Sub-Antarctic Southern Blue Whiting Fisheries
“2012 Compliance Risk Profile of the Sub-Antarctic Southern Blue Whiting Fisheries” (dated December 2013) by the Ministry of Primary Industries Compliance and Response Branch. This report was based largely on…
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Another leaked MPI report reveals industrial scale underreporting of fish
Greenpeace is renewing its call for a full and independent inquiry into New Zealand’s Fisheries Management System after releasing yet another leaked internal Government report, this time showing industrial scale…
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Misery at sea: human suffering in Taiwan’s distant water fishing fleets
This report makes for shocking and harrowing reading. Its findings should concern everyone connected to the seafood industry – from consumers, to workers and vessel operators, and those who manage…
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Budget 2018: Greenpeace asks why Govt is to spend $800m subsidising agricultural pollution
This Coalition Government has made a number of good decisions for the environment recently but it is set to continue to spend over $800 million a year subsidising greenhouse gas pollution from the agriculture sector by not bringing agriculture into the Emissions Trading Scheme.
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This Far, No Further
Investigations by Greenpeace have shown industrial fishing fleets using destructive bottom trawling are invading previously pristine areas of the Barents Sea in the Norwegian Arctic. As climate change steadily diminishes…
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2016 Greenpeace NZ Annual Impact Report
When Clair Patterson, a geochemistry professor at the California Institute of Technology, was trying to estimate the age of the solar system in the 1940s,he tried to measure the age…
