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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 can read a full breakdown of those here<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n

But just as swiftly – and in the true spirit of Aotearoa – the resistance began. New Zealanders stood up to defend nature.<\/p>\n\n

From the deep south of Te Wai Pounamu to the top of Te Ika-a-M\u0101ui, people have come together to defend nature, our democracy and our founding document, Te Tiriti o Waitangi. <\/p>\n\n

This Government is choosing to serve profiteering corporations – instead of the people they are elected to serve. But the resistance has taken root in every corner of the country. That should come as no surprise, because we are a country where courage is inherited, and standing up for what\u2019s right runs deep in our bones.<\/p>\n\n

Politicians who take money from polluting corporations, then rewrite the rules to serve those donors by gutting our democracy and environmental protections, may, like Shane Jones, call those who resist \u201cblood-sucking vermin\u201d. But we know who we truly are.<\/p>\n\n

We are the country that first gave women the vote. That stood against apartheid during the Springbok Tour. The tiny nation that defied global superpowers and declared ourselves nuclear-free. That stopped native forest logging, kicked Big Oil out of the country’s waters, and gave legal personhood to the Whanganui river, Te Urewera forest and Taranaki mountain.<\/p>\n\n

This is who we are. Even when the odds feel  hopeless, as they sometimes do today in the face of the most anti-environment government in New Zealand history, people across Aotearoa have always found the courage to stand on the right side of history. <\/p>\n\n

This timeline captures just some of the powerful and inspiring acts of resistance – marches, petitions, occupations, submissions, rallies, court cases and acts of civil disobedience – that are building a growing wave of opposition to this Government\u2019s anti-nature agenda.<\/p>\n\n

We\u2019ve done our best to capture the acts of resistance – big and small – that make up this movement. But we know we\u2019ll have missed some. If you spot something missing, please reach out – we\u2019ll continue to update this timeline as the movement grows.<\/p>\n\n

2023<\/h2>\n\n

21 October 2023:<\/strong> Hundreds of protesters gather in Aotea Square in Auckland, and other cities and towns, <\/a>calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. Rallies against Israel’s genocide in Gaza continued to be held weekly across Aotearoa<\/p>\n\n

2024<\/h2>\n\n

7 March 2024: <\/strong>The Government was met with immediate resistance to the introduction of one of its most appalling attacks on nature and democracy – the Fast Track Approvals Bill. On the very day they introduced the Bill (i.e the draft law),  Greenpeace activists installed a giant tap pouring cow effluent outside the Beehive, highlighting how fast tracking more mega dairy dams would lead to more water pollution.<\/p>\n\n

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Greenpeace Aotearoa installed a giant, working dairy effluent tap on the lawn of Parliament in response to the Luxon Government’s introduction of the Fast-track Consenting Bill, which is expected to remove barriers to the dairy industry polluting fresh water.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

13 March 2024: <\/strong>In Taranaki a hearing reconsidering Trans-Tasman Resources (TTR\u2019s) application to mine the seabed in the South Taranaki Bight was held. The Aussie mining company had tried and failed for more than ten years to get approval for its seabed mine. It was rejected repeatedly, including by the highest court in the land, the Supreme Court. <\/p>\n\n

Local iwi and hapu, Greenpeace, Kiwis Against Seabed Mining, local communities, boaties, surfers, the fishing and offshore wind industries – all continued to stand strong against seabed mining and protesters gathered to<\/a> make their opposition known to TTR and the EPA. <\/p>\n\n

Within days, TTR had pulled out of  the EPA hearings and gambled on the Luxon government\u2019s freshly-announced Fast Track consenting process. <\/p>\n\n

April 2024: <\/strong>The Fast Track Bill galvanised widespread and sustained opposition throughout Aotearoa. 27,000 people<\/a> made submissions on the Fast Track Approvals Bill – with more than 90% opposed. In the same month, hundreds of kids<\/a> went on strike from school and marched on Parliament to protest against climate change and the Fast Track Approvals Bill<\/p>\n\n

There was a victory too. In Mangawhai-P\u0101kiri, mana whenua and the local community fighting to stop offshore sand mining<\/a> by McCallum Bros won a major case in the Environment Court – upholding the rejection of the company\u2019s consent to continue dredging the coastline. It\u2019s a powerful example of people power prevailing over corporate exploitation.<\/p>\n\n

8 May 2024:<\/strong> Ng\u0101ti Toa marched on Parliament <\/a>in opposition to the Fast Track Approvals Bill, delivering a box of submissions against the bill and performing the haka Ka Mate. <\/p>\n\n

8 June 2024:<\/strong>Tens of thousands<\/a> of people took to the streets of T\u0101maki Makaurau on 8 June to protest against the Luxon government\u2019s war on nature and the Fast Track Bill.<\/p>\n\n

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Over 20,000 people turned out in Auckland\u2019s Aotea Square for the \u2018March for Nature\u2019 down Queen Street to protest the Luxon Government\u2019s fast-track bill and \u2018war on nature\u2019.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

The Fast Track Bill originally aimed to give absolute power to three government ministers to approve individual consents. The loud widespread opposition to the Bill led to the government backing down on that issue, amendments <\/a>to the Bill took decision-making power away from the ministers and gave them to expert panels. <\/p>\n\n

26 August 2024: <\/strong>Around  100 people attend a h\u012bkoi to w\u0101hi tapu (sacred) Lake Rotok\u0101kahi in protest against the route of a sewerage pipeline<\/a>.  The pipeline\u2019s path risks environmental damage to the lake and would desecrate a sacred or w\u0101hi tapu area, where about 120 tipuna died in the Mt Tarawera eruption in 1886. <\/p>\n\n

September 2024:<\/strong> In ongoing opposition to TTR\u2019s proposed seabed mine and the threat it would be included in the Fast Track law, Greenpeace activists occupied<\/a> the Wellington offices of mining lobbyist Straterra.  The five activists drew attention to Straterra\u2019s role in lobbying the Luxon government on behalf of TTR and other mining companies. Five activists were arrested, four of them convicted of trespass.<\/p>\n\n

2 October 2024: <\/strong>Hundreds of locals marched<\/a> through the small Taranaki town of P\u0101tea, part of the growing protest against TTR\u2019s proposed seabed mining just off the coast of P\u0101tea.<\/p>\n\n

9 October 2024:<\/strong> Greenpeace activists protesting the dairy industry\u2019s climate pollution scaled <\/a>Fonterra\u2019s Te Rapa dairy factory unfurling a 160 square metre banner reading \u2018Fonterra\u2019s methane cooks the climate.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n\n

21 October 2024:<\/strong> The local community in Waimate <\/a>continues to protest against a dangerous proposed fast track project, a waste incinerator that would burn 20 per cent of the South Island’s waste and release toxic pollution into the air.  Since then, the Waimate incinerator<\/a> company has hit fundamental obstacles in its bid to get fast track consent.<\/p>\n\n

11 November 2024: <\/strong>The H\u012bkoi m\u014d te Tiriti<\/a> began in Northland in protest over the treaty principles bill, pushed by the ACT party which sought to unilaterally rewrite New Zealand\u2019s founding treaty between M\u0101ori and the Crown.  The H\u012bkoi gained momentum<\/a> and people as it moved through Aotearoa.  <\/p>\n\n

\"The \u00a9 Echo Valley \/ Greenpeace<\/div>” class=”wp-image-67194″\/>
The H\u012bkoi m\u014d Te Tiriti crosses the Auckland Harbour Bridge on day three of the h\u012bkoi, which is making its way to Parliament in protest of the Government’s Treaty Principles Bill.
\u00a9 Echo Valley \/ Greenpeace<\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

19 November 2024:<\/strong> A historic day of mass protest in Aotearoa – the hikoi m\u014d te Tiriti arrived in Wellington where tens of thousands of M\u0101ori, P\u0101keha and Tau iwi marched on Parliament<\/a> demanding the Government honour Te Tiriti and scrap the Treaty Principles Bill.<\/p>\n\n

7 November 2024: <\/strong>Another victory <\/a>for the community opposing sand mining on P\u0101kiri beach. They were awarded costs by the Environment Court of $500,000 which the company McCallum Bros has to pay. The award is among the largest-ever awarded by the court.<\/p>\n\n

28 November 2024: <\/strong>Members of Taranaki iwi Ng\u0101ti Ruanui and Greenpeace activists took the campaign against seabed mining across the Tasman to Sydney. Rukutai Watene, Peeti Wharehoka-Watene and six Greenpeace activists interrupted the AGM<\/a> of Manuka Resources, the owners of Trans-Tasman Resources and took the floor to outline the reasons the hap\u016b opposed seabed mining in their rohe. The AGM was shut down.<\/p>\n\n

\"Rukutai
Rukutai Watene and Peeti Wharehoka-Watene of Ng\u0101ti Ruanui, along with six Greenpeace activists interrupted the Sydney AGM of Australian mining company Manuka Resources, the owner of Trans-Tasman Resources, telling shareholders that he and his hap\u016b will continue to resist seabed mining in their rohe.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

3 December 2024:<\/strong> The Fast Track Bill continued to spark protests. University students<\/a> in Wellington marched against the Bill. Organisers said the bill would allow the government to make decisions about the sustainability of young people’s futures without giving them a say.<\/p>\n\n

2025<\/h2>\n\n

14 January 2025: <\/strong>Submission period closes on the Treaty Principles Bill with a record breaking 300,000 public submissions made, with 90% opposed to it. <\/p>\n\n

26 January 2025: <\/strong>1500 people rallied at Ruak\u0101k\u0101 Beach<\/a> in Northland against a fast track proposal to extract up to 8 million cubic metres of sand from the Bream Bay seabed. The same company  behind the failed attempt to continue sand mining in Mangawhai-P\u0101kiri, McCallum Bros are the company trying to secure this fast track consent.<\/p>\n\n

31 January 2025: <\/strong>Protests continue against the Fast Track –  Minister for mining Shane Jones was greeted by protesters in Waihi<\/a> as he announced coal and gold would be added to the critical minerals list. The announcement highlighted the Luxon government\u2019s obsession with filthy fossil fuels and its desire to turn Aotearoa into a country full of open-cast mines. <\/p>\n\n

25 February 2025: <\/strong>Lake protectors from the Protect Rotok\u0101kahi group occupied the site of a proposed  controversial pipeline at Lake Rotok\u0101kahi in Rotorua, preventing construction from beginning. Seven people were arrested<\/a> for refusing to move.<\/p>\n\n

3 March 2025: <\/strong>Protesters climbed<\/a> onto the Rolleston building of an international weapons company NIOA, which has links to the Israeli Defence Force in Gaza, demonstrating against its New Zealand expansion. <\/p>\n\n

16 March 2025:<\/strong> A flotilla of more than 50 watercraft<\/a> converged from Whang\u0101rei Heads to Langs Beach to oppose the proposed fast track sand mining project in Bream Bay.  <\/p>\n\n

6 April 2025: <\/strong>Greenpeace activists occupied part of Port Taranaki<\/a> to protest against the use of palm kernel expeller (PKE) in New Zealand dairying.  They locked themselves in the building while others attached a 70-metre banner reading \u2018Anchor Rainforest Killer\u2019 to the roof.  PKE is used as a cow feed on Fonterra farms and is linked to illegal palm plantations and deforestation of paradise rainforests in Southeast Asia.<\/p>\n\n

\"Taranaki,
Taranaki, New Zealand – Greenpeace Aotearoa activists have occupied the storage facility of Fonterra\u2019s biggest palm kernel supplier and locked themselves to pillars stopping a ship from Indonesia carrying 30 thousand tonnes of palm kernel expeller from unloading.





\u00a9 Greenpeace<\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

10 April 2025: <\/strong>Another win. The Treaty Principles Bill is resoundingly rejected and voted down <\/a>by all political parties, except for ACT. <\/p>\n\n

20 April 2025:<\/strong> Seventy people occupied <\/a>the site of a proposed fast-tracked coal mine on the unique and fragile Denniston Plateau, home to many endangered species. The protesters occupied the site for many days and vowed to continue to take action against the mining company, Bathurst Resources, if it tried to expand its coal mine operations in the area.<\/p>\n\n

26 May 2025<\/strong>:A win! The Environmental Defence Society secured a procedural Fast Track win<\/a> – forcing the EPA to publicly release all information provided to it without delay. Previously, the EPA only published fast track application information once it was deemed complete and within scope.<\/p>\n\n

6 May 2025:<\/strong> Charges were dropped<\/a> against climate protesters after the jury could not reach a unanimous decision. The protestors had staged sit downs and stuck their hands to roads in Wellington, abseiled above Mount Victoria tunnel and hung banners above State Highway 1.<\/p>\n\n

16 May 2025: <\/strong>More than 3,100 submissions<\/a> are made on the Government\u2019s plans to increase minimum residue levels for glyphosate by a 100-times on wheat, barley,  and oats. Not a single submission supports the proposal.<\/p>\n\n

23 June 2025:<\/strong> <\/strong>159,000 people submitted <\/a>on the <\/strong>ACT Party\u2019s Regulatory Standards Bill, dubbed the Treaty Principles Bill 2.0 and widely opposed across civil society. A number second only to the submissions against the TPB. 98.7% of submitters are opposed to the Bill which was condemned as a threat to democracy, the treaty and the environment.<\/a> The Bill seeks to impose a set of the ACT party\u2019s principles on future lawmakers that explicitly exclude the Treaty, equity and environmental protections and instead prioritise corporate property rights above all else. The Bill also seeks to create a new unprecedented expectation that the Government compensate corporations if regulations designed to protect people or nature affect their profits. <\/p>\n\n

10 June 2025: <\/strong>Across the North Island, over a thousand people took to the beaches and hundreds take part in a paddle ou<\/a>t into the ocean to protest Seabed mining<\/p>\n\n

28 June 2025:<\/strong> Greenpeace activists<\/a> confronted Talley’s bottom trawler Amaltal Atlantis<\/em> on the Chatham Rise, painting the message \u201cocean killer\u201d on its hull. When heavy trawl nets are dragged across the seafloor and over seamounts, they bulldoze ancient corals and kill precious marine life including fur seals, dolphins and seabirds.<\/p>\n\n

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Greenpeace Aotearoa activists confront the Talley\u2019s bottom trawler Amatal Atlantis on the Chatham Rise, painting \u201cocean killer\u201d on its hull to protest destructive bottom trawling.\nThe Rainbow Warrior is off the coast of Aotearoa campaigning for an end to New Zealand’s destructive bottom trawling in New Zealand waters and the Tasman Sea.<\/figcaption>
\u00a9 Paul Hilton \/ Greenpeace<\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

17 July 2025: <\/strong>The Hauraki Gulf Alliance called again for a bottom trawling ban<\/a> in the Hauraki Gulf. They deployed a massive \u2018Ban Bottom Trawling\u2019 banner on the deck of the Rainbow Warrior, <\/em>demanding an end to destructive bottom trawling in the Hauraki Gulf Marine Park.<\/p>\n\n

23 July 2025: <\/strong>Greenpeace activists give Gore\u2019s iconic brown trout statue a makeover<\/a> in protest after residents of Gore were issued a do-not-drink notice after their town water supply exceeded the legal limit of 11.3 mg\/L of nitrate contamination.<\/p>\n\n

27 July 2025: <\/strong>Two brave climate activists set up home in a coal bucket <\/a>on Stockton Mine\u2019s aerial ropeway in protest against Bathurst Resources application under the Fast Track process to carry out more mining on the Denniston Plateau. They spend three weeks in the buckets, braving bracing conditions, and corporate intimidation tactics.<\/p>\n\n

8 August 2025: <\/strong>Climate activists protest outside ANZ banks nationwide and shut down<\/a> the Dunedin branch. They were protesting against ANZ lending to coal mining corporation Bathurst Resources which is attempting to get fast track consent to mine the Denniston Plateau. <\/p>\n\n

16 August 2025: <\/strong>Northlanders gathered in Whang\u0101rei to confront Shane Jones over two wildly opposed fast track projects<\/a>: the Bay of Islands Marina and the Bream Bay sand mining.<\/p>\n\n

12 August 2025: <\/strong>A win! The Environmental Protection Agency declined<\/a> to send the Te Kuha coal mine down the fast track process, after it failed to meet seven of the application criteria. The environmentally destructive proposal had already been rejected multiple times by courts<\/a>, including the Supreme Court. <\/p>\n\n

12 August 2025: <\/strong>A shark and a dolphin got into the Seafood NZ <\/a>conference in Nelson to deliver a strong message to the  that more ocean protection was needed. <\/p>\n\n

23 August 2025:<\/strong> Greenpeace activists board a Talley\u2019s<\/a> fishing vessel in Nelson in protest against bottom trawling. The three activists were arrested after unfurling a banner reading \u201cOcean Killer\u201d.<\/p>\n\n

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\u00a9 Bryce Groves \/ Greenpeace <\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

9 Sept 2025: <\/strong>Greenpeace projected images <\/a>of destroyed coral onto a Wellington building, ahead of an international fisheries meeting.<\/p>\n\n

13 September 2025: <\/strong> 20,000 people march<\/a> through Auckland in a March for Humanity, calling for a ceasefire in Gaza and sanctions to be imposed on Israel. <\/p>\n\n

15 September 2025: <\/strong>Six Christian clergy chained themselves<\/a> to Finance Minister Nicola Willis’ electorate office in Wellington and refused to move for 32 hours in protest against the slaughter of civilians in Gaza. <\/p>\n\n

17 September 2025: <\/strong>Cantabrians rallied outside<\/a> Environment Canterbury (ECan) protesting against nitrate contamination as a result of intensive dairy farming.  On the same day, another win! ECan declared a Nitrate Emergency <\/a>in Canterbury.<\/p>\n\n

29 September 2025:<\/strong> Greenpeace projected a message onto the New Zealand stock exchange building<\/a> in Wellington as Manuka Resources announced it was listing on the NZX. The message warned New Zealand investors and financial institutions to boycott Manuka Resources and not to bankroll its destructive seabed mining project in the South Taranaki Bight. A new petition<\/a> warning companies was launched to coincide with the projection.<\/p>\n\n

3 October 2025: <\/strong>\u2018Nitrate emergency starts here<\/a>\u2019 – a freshly-installed Fonterra farm sign is installed outside Canterbury\u2019s first completed dairy conversion of 2025. Despite the council declaring a nitrate emergency, Government rollbacks on freshwater laws have allowed dairy conversions to resume.<\/p>\n\n

10 October 2025:<\/strong> A win! Waikato Regional Council advanced its plan<\/a> to close the vast majority of the Coromandel\u2019s coast to bottom trawling fishing. <\/p>\n\n

7 October 2025:<\/strong> A win (with reservations)!! The Hauraki Gulf Protection Bill passes law<\/a> – a significant milestone for ocean protection. But bottom trawling and commercial fishing operations were still permitted in most areas. <\/p>\n\n

13 October 2025: <\/strong>Another win! After facing fierce opposition, NZ First announced <\/a>it will not support the Gene Tech Bill – the government’s proposal to radically deregulate genetic engineering and GMOs. Without NZ First\u2019s support, the bill is dead in the water.<\/p>\n\n

16 October 2025:<\/strong> Veteran M\u0101ori rights activists delivered a 20,000 strong<\/a> petition against the Marine and Coastal Area (Takutai Moana) Act (MACA). The Act seeks to rob M\u0101ori of customary rights to the marine and coastal area and has been condemned as tantamount to raupatu or confiscation,  Just days later on 20 October 2025, protestors across the country take to the beaches and burn copies of the bill in protest.<\/p>\n\n

28 October 2025: <\/strong>Workers, unions, and iwi gathered across the motu for R\u0101 Whakamana<\/em>, a nationwide day of solidarity between iwi and unions calling on the government<\/a> to honour Te Tiriti. <\/p>\n\n

30 October 2025: <\/strong>Ng\u0101tiwai travelled to Aorangi and Tawhitirahi <\/a>(Poor Knights Islands) aboard their waka hourua to raise their flags and erect a pou whenua rejecting the Crown\u2019s continued attempts to raupatu their takutai moana through the recently passed amendments to the Marine and Coastal Area (Takutai Moana) Act (MACA).<\/p>\n\n

30 October 2025:<\/strong> A win! The Government backs down<\/a> on its proposal to permit the hundredfold increase in the allowable residue of glyphosate on wheat, oats and barley.<\/p>\n\n

20 November 2025:<\/strong> A win – or is it an own goal? NZ First leader Winston Peters pledges to repeal <\/a>ACT’s Regulatory Standards Bill – only two days after his party voted for it in parliament! Cue accusations from David Seymour that Winston Peters is planning to go with Labour<\/a> at the next election. <\/p>\n\n

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