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Clean water for Otago: Greenpeace submission to the Otago Regional Council
Everyone deserves rivers they can swim in and fresh, clean drinking water that won’t make them sick. But to get there we need local and central government making strong plans…
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Herea ki te taiao (Tied to nature)
Starting mahi at a new place can be complex under the best of circumstances. Starting mahi in a completely new type of organisation, under a level 4 lockdown, during an…
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Greenpeace calls for full Māui habitat protection as survey reveals further decline
A leaked Government report has revealed Māui dolphin numbers have declined further over the past five years, prompting Greenpeace to renew their call to protect the dolphins’ full habitat range.
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Indigenous Peoples are fighting for their rights in Brazil’s capital. Here’s why a win for them is a win for all of us
6,000 Indigenous leaders have gathered in the Brazilian capital of Brasília this week to fight for their lands and lives. Here’s what’s going on, and how you can help.
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The global water cycle has become more intense, and that makes New Zealand’s wet regions wetter, and dry ones drier
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has delivered a sobering update on how much the Earth has warmed and how the climate system is responding.
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Greenpeace activists deliver message to Talley’s bottom trawling ship
Thursday, August 12, Port Dunedin: Greenpeace activists have this evening underlined the call for bottom trawling to be banned on seamounts, confronting Talley’s ship the Amaltal Explorer as it headed…
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Power blackouts the inevitable result of decades of underinvestment in renewables
Greenpeace is calling on the Government to urgently unlock new investment in distributed solar, wind power and battery storage following news that unprecedented electricity demand caused blackouts in parts of…
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INVESTIGATION: Plastic waste exports from New Zealand
A Greenpeace investigation has revealed that some of New Zealand’s recycled plastic may end up dumped and burned illegally in Malaysia.
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A significant number of New Zealanders overestimate sea-level rise — and that could stop them from taking action
Following a recent storm surge in Wellington, some media coverage expressed surprise that 30cm of sea-level rise – an unavoidable amount projected to happen by the middle of this century…
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Enviro NGOs call for ‘under one’ nitrate pollution limit for water
Four of New Zealand’s leading environmental organisations are urging the Government to defend native species and human health by setting a nitrate pollution limit of under 1mg per litre for…
