Press contacts at Greenpeace Aotearoa
These contacts are intended for journalists and media inquiries only.

Emma Page – Communications lead, Oceans and Fisheries, Seabed and Deep Sea Mining
021-207-5172 | [email protected]
Niamh O’Flynn – Head of Public Engagement & Brand, Energy, Plastics, General Media Enquires
021-027-33785 | [email protected]
Rhiannon Mackie – Communications lead, Climate, Fresh Water and Agriculture
027-244-6729 | [email protected]
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Greenpeace free nitrate water testing programme heading to Gore
Greenpeace Aotearoa is headed to Gore this November to provide free drinking water testing for nitrate contamination.
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Greenpeace urges WHO to update decades-old drinking water guidelines over nitrate health risks
Greenpeace is calling on the World Health Organization to review the international drinking water standards for nitrate.
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Greenpeace ‘officially renames’ new Talley’s supertrawler ahead of maiden voyage to NZ
Activists protesting destructive bottom trawling have renamed Talley’s new supertrawler in Spain today, ahead of the ship’s maiden voyage to New Zealand.
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New ECan groundwater report confirms Canterbury’s nitrate emergency is worsening
Environment Canterbury’s latest groundwater quality survey confirms that Canterbury is still in a nitrate emergency.
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NZ’s controversial methane targets could spark global race to the bottom, enable cover-up of 10 billion tonnes of climate pollution this decade
New research has slammed an alternative greenhouse gas accounting metric, backed by agribusiness lobbyists.
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NZ Govt accused of acting as “industry mouthpiece” after bid to open deep-sea coral hotspot to trawling in Tasman Sea
Environmental groups are calling out the New Zealand Government for attempting to reopen a coral hotspot to bottom trawling, despite recent scientific findings proving the site is home to diverse deep sea life.
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NZ Food Safety told the public pesticide residue levels were safe, while internal assessments said the opposite
Documents released by Greenpeace today show that the NZ Food Safety agency failed to raise alarms over unsafe levels of pesticide residue on food.
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Election candidates to debate fresh water in Christchurch
Greenpeace has announced that it will host an election debate on fresh water in Christchurch on October 19th, titled ‘the Great Freshwater Debate’.
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Greenpeace Aotearoa joins complaint to EU over NZ’s climate policy regression
The complaint addresses Government reversal of climate policies, which Greenpeace has labelled a ‘race to the bottom on environmental regulation’.