From a scorched mountain range in Spain to a giant polar bear in South Korea, here are a selection of images from Greenpeace photographers around the world this week.
🇪🇸 Spain – A 16-day heatwave has exacerbated the fires that have ravaged Spain, making this summer one of the worst on record.
This is the toll of the flames in recent weeks, which have destroyed almost 400,000 hectares. Greenpeace Spain, with the help of photographer Pedro Armestre, has documented the extent of the destruction in the Communities of Galicia and Castile and León from the air, even reaching areas that have not been previously documented.
🇧🇪 Belgium – Amazonia travelling letters at Place du Luxembourg in front of the European Parliament in Brussels. Greenpeace bring the Amazon to the heart of Europe through a powerful street-level action: giant AMAZONIA letters touring major cities. Through emotional messages, video projections, and Indigenous voices, the action calls for urgent climate justice and forest protection ahead of the historic COP30 in Belém.
🇰🇷 South Korea – Greenpeace Seoul hosted the second edition of the pop-up campaign ‘WEarth: The Voice of Earth’ at Hyundai Department Store in Bucheon. Unlike the first event in June, which took place in central Seoul, this popup targeted department store visitors and families, creating an approachable way for new audiences to connect with Greenpeace. Participants joined activities such as the ‘Yeolbat-gom’ (angry polar bear) photo zone, recording voices for the Earth, making eco-friendly moss planters with recycled coffee grounds, and a children’s climate talk by science communicator Dr. Jungmo Lee.
🇵🇭 Philippines – Rep. Javi Benitez delivers a powerful speech in Congress, outlining the risks of climate change and the impacts on local communities of extreme weather events in the region, ahead of the re-filing of the Climate Accountability Bill.
🇿🇦 South Africa – Greenpeace activists and communities living in some of South Africa’s most polluted regions staged a powerful peaceful protest outside the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE) in Pretoria to denounce South Africa’s deadly air pollution crisis and demand urgent governmental action.
Greenpeace has been a pioneer of photo activism for more than 50 years, and remains committed to bearing witness and exposing environmental injustice through the images we capture.
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