Take action today
Whatever taking action looks like to you – from signing a petition, to attending a protest or non-violent direct action – together they’re all a vital part of creating the green and peaceful future we all need. To change the world, it’s going to take all of us having the courage to stand up for what we know is right. Begin that journey today.
Get involved with Greenpeace
There are lots of ways to get involved with Greenpeace. Create your own campaign, contact the Greenpeace office to see if you can volunteer or find a job in an office or onboard a ship.
We act with hope and determination. We take on the impossible. We are everyday people connected around the world, embarking on a billion acts of courage. Join us today:
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Greenpeace Community: Start your own petition
Create a petition for the environment and lead grassroots change for the health of Papatūānuku. Start your campaign today.
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Donate to Greenpeace
Take action for environmental protection. Please make a donation today. Greenpeace exists because this fragile earth deserves a voice. It needs solutions. It needs change. It needs action.
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Become a Greenpeace volunteer
Put your hand up to volunteer for Greenpeace Aotearoa! Sign up today and take action for the planet
Trending Petitions
By signing a petition, you demand solutions and show that you want change. Check out some of our current petitions below. Add your name today!
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Tell the government to protect hoiho penguins
Speak up today to support the call for zero bycatch of endangered hoiho penguin and protect their habitat.
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STOP LUXON’S TOXIC COVER-UP
Sign the open letter to demand the Luxon government to restart testing glyphosate levels.
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Don’t invest in ocean destruction
This is a warning to all potential investors in Manuka Resources: Don’t bankroll ocean destruction! Seabed mining will never take place in Aotearoa.
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Stop corporate intimidation!
Tell Energy Transfer and other corporate bullies: Stop your attacks on free speech.
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PETITION: Clean drinking water now!
Join us in calling on Environment Canterbury to commit to enduring freshwater protections that ensure safe drinking water and swimmable rivers for all.
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GAZA: Call for sanctions on Israel
Join the call for sanctions on Israel over Gaza genocide.
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Call on Chris Hipkins to take a stand against seabed mining
Any political party that takes environmental protection seriously must stand against Trans-Tasman Resources’ plan to seabed mine in the South Taranaki Bight.
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PETITION: Stop the corporate power grab RMA reforms
Add your name now to demand Chris Bishop abandon his dangerous RMA reform plan.
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PETITION: Time to resist
Now is the time to resist. Will you join the fight against the billionaire takeover?
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PETITION: Tax the super-rich to pay for climate action
We urge governments to tax the super-rich now and use those funds to support people and protect the planet.
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PETITION: Stop Fonterra using Palm Kernel
Call on Fonterra to end the use of rainforest-destroying palm kernel on its farms.
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PETITION: Choose a Clean Energy Future
We call on the Govt to embrace New Zealand’s Clean Energy Future, invest in solar and wind, and reject new fossil fuel facilities.
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Open Letter to Stop the Fast Track
Sign on to this open letter to industry now to help push more of them to opt out of the Fast Track.
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PETITION: Hands off the water protections
Call on Christopher Luxon to leave New Zealand’s freshwater protections alone
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Tell Prime Minister Christopher Luxon to stop the rollback of freshwater protection
Every New Zealander should be able to swim in clean rivers and know that the water coming out of their kitchen tap is safe to drink.
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Say no to new oil exploration
Sign the open letter to the oil industry – We will resist oil exploration
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PETITION: Create global ocean sanctuaries
Call on the Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters to create new global ocean sanctuaries and protect our blue planet.
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PETITION: Ban bottom trawling in the Hauraki Gulf
Call upon the Minister for Oceans and Fisheries to ban all forms of mobile bottom-contact fishing including bottom trawling, scallop dredging and Danish seining within the Hauraki Gulf Marine Park.
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PETITION: Make big agri-polluters pay for their emissions
Join our call to make companies like Ravensdown and Ballance pay directly for their fertiliser emissions.
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PETITION: Keep corporate sponsors out of COP climate talks
Join the call on the United Nations to reject corporate sponsorship of international climate negotiations.
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PETITION: Reject fishing industry greenwash
Right now, the commercial fishing industry is desperately trying to undermine ocean protection once again.
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PETITION: Stop deep sea mining
It’s time for New Zealand to take a stand. Join our call on the New Zealand government to back a global moratorium on seabed mining.
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PETITION: Halve the dairy herd
Call on the Government to halve the dairy herd to reduce the impacts on freshwater, biodiversity, climate and people’s health.
More you can do for Peace
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GAZA: Call for sanctions on Israel
Join the call for sanctions on Israel over Gaza genocide.
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PETITION: Freeze russian oligarch assets in Aotearoa
In the name of peace, call on the New Zealand Government to freeze the assets of Russian billionaire oligarchs to pressure Vladimir Putin to call off the Russian Military invasion of Ukraine.
More you can do on plastics
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PETITION: Ban Single-use Plastic Bottles
Call on the NZ Government to ban unnecessary single-use plastic bottles* in NZ, and to incentivise reusable and refillable alternatives.
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PETITION: Demand a Global Plastics Treaty
Call on the NZ Government to stand firm and support a strong global plastics treaty.
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PETITION: Ban NZ’s plastic waste exports
Sign on now to call for a ban on plastic waste exports from New Zealand
More you can do on oceans
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PETITION: Support the creation of global ocean sanctuaries
From destructive fishing and mining, to climate change – the threats facing our oceans are growing greater by the day. We urgently need a network of ocean sanctuaries across the globe to protect them.
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PETITION: Ban bottom trawling in the Hauraki Gulf
Call upon the Minister for Oceans and Fisheries to ban all forms of mobile bottom-contact fishing including bottom trawling, scallop dredging and Danish seining within the Hauraki Gulf Marine Park.
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PETITION: Stop deep sea mining
It’s time for New Zealand to take a stand. Join our call on the New Zealand government to back a global moratorium on seabed mining.
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PETITION: Ban seabed mining in Aotearoa
Seabed mining is a new threat to the oceans. Now is our chance to prevent the destruction before it’s too late.
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PETITION: Ban bottom trawling on seamounts
Join the call to demand that the NZ Govt bans bottom trawling on seamounts and similar deep sea features, and stop issuing permits for bottom trawling in international waters.
More you can do on climate
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Say no to new oil exploration
Sign the open letter to the oil industry – We will resist oil exploration
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PETITION: Stop Fonterra using Palm Kernel
Call on Fonterra to end the use of rainforest-destroying palm kernel on its farms.
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PETITION: Choose a Clean Energy Future
We call on the Govt to embrace New Zealand’s Clean Energy Future, invest in solar and wind, and reject new fossil fuel facilities.
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PETITION: Save the Amazon
Add your name to tell the Brazilian government to save the Amazon Rainforest and protect the lands of Indigenous and traditional communities.
More you can do on fresh water
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PETITION: End intensive winter grazing
Join us to call on Prime Minister Luxon and the Government to go further than the Climate Commission’s inadequate recommendations and cut climate pollution from NZ’s biggest polluter: industrial dairying.
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Tell Prime Minister Christopher Luxon to stop the rollback of freshwater protection
Every New Zealander should be able to swim in clean rivers and know that the water coming out of their kitchen tap is safe to drink.
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PETITION: Get nitrates out of our drinking water
Call on the Government to lower the limit for nitrates in drinking water to safe levels
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PETITION: Clean drinking water now!
Join us in calling on Environment Canterbury to commit to enduring freshwater protections that ensure safe drinking water and swimmable rivers for all.
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Defending Nature – Acts of resistance to the Luxon Government’s war on nature: a timeline
The National-ACT-NZ First coalition was sworn in in late November 2023 – and wasted no time launching an all-out war on nature, unleashing a relentless onslaught of anti-environment initiatives. You…
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Plastic pollution: The crisis choking the oceans and marine life
Plastic waste invades every corner of our planet, and threatens sea life. But there’s still hope for a future free from plastic pollution.
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People of the world vs COP30
Outside the official negotiations of the COP30 international climate talks taking place right now in the Brazilian Amazon multitudes of people are speaking up for a just climate future.