{"id":86666,"date":"2026-10-23T20:31:44","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T18:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/?p=86666"},"modified":"2026-10-23T23:03:45","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T21:03:45","slug":"greenpeace-pictures-of-the-week-2643","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/story\/86666\/greenpeace-pictures-of-the-week-2643\/","title":{"rendered":"Greenpeace Pictures of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Demanding action from world leaders at CBD COP17 in Armenia, protesting a gas project in Australia, and calls for Big Tech regulations in Brazil, here are a few of our favourite images from Greenpeace work around the world this week.<\/p>\n\n

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

\ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddf2 Armenia – Activists send a message to world leaders at the Conference of the Parties (COP17) to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). The 17th UN Biodiversity Conference, CBD COP17, takes place in Yerevan, Armenia, from 19-30 October, 2026. Greenpeace is at the CBD to demand governments address gaps in the implementation of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KM-GBF) with concrete action, close the biodiversity finance gap, ensure quality of 30×30, from forests to the high seas, by safeguarding ecosystem integrity and respecting rights, and maximise synergies between climate and biodiversity action.<\/p>\n\n

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

\ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddf2 Armenia – Greenpeace International and Indigenous Peoples and local communities from around the world deployed an artistic installation to the centre of the UN Biodiversity Conference to demand delegates at CBD COP17 to recognise and respect the rights and roles of Indigenous Peoples and local communities as the foundation for achieving global biodiversity targets.<\/p>\n\n

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

\ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddfa Australia – Greenpeace activists deploy massive 14m x 12m banner that reads ‘Stop Woodside’s Dirty Gas. Save Scott Reef.’ upon a Floating Production Unit at Woodside\u2019s Scarborough gas project over 200km off the coast of Exmouth in peaceful protest of Woodside’s reckless plans to drill for oil and gas at Scott Reef.<\/p>\n\n

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

\ud83c\uddf2\ud83c\uddfd Mexico – The results of a water quality study conducted by Greenpeace Mexico in August 2026\u2014involving community-based monitoring and laboratory analysis at 17 sampling sites, including wells and *cenotes* (sinkholes) across 6 locations in the state of Yucat\u00e1n\u2014confirmed contamination by organic matter, harmful bacteria, excess nutrients, and indicators of porcine fecal matter. Two additional studies, carried out in 2024 and 2026 by the *Red en Defensa del Agua y el Territorio Maya To\u2019one Ja\u2019o\u2019on* (“We Are Water” Network) across five overlapping sites in 5 municipalities, confirmed\u2014using the “Pig2Bac” method\u2014that the source of the contamination is large-scale pig fecal matter. These analyses were performed at the laboratories of Johns Hopkins University (United States) and the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). <\/p>\n\n

In response to these findings, the organisation carried out a symbolic intervention at one of the *cenotes* sampled last August. Through this action, they issued a firm call to the relevant environmental authorities to implement a moratorium, enforce strict regulations, or shut down this type of industry, while also demanding comprehensive protection for the Mayan Forest (both its surface and its subterranean environment). <\/p>\n\n

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

\ud83c\udde7\ud83c\uddf7 Brazil – Less than a week before the elections, Greenpeace Brazil joined hundreds of activists and civil society organizations at Meta\u2019s headquarters in S\u00e3o Paulo (Meta Platforms is an American multinational technology company) in a peaceful protest to send a clear message: Meta, keep your hands off our election! Thousands of complaints compiled by the CTRL+Z organization exposed serious failures on Meta\u2019s platforms that are interfering with Brazil\u2019s elections, manipulating social media, and threatening our democracy. We don\u2019t need anyone meddling in our choices. We urgently need regulation of Big Tech! Brazil decides Brazil\u2019s future.<\/p>\n\n

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\u00a9 Greenpeace \/ Carlos F. Rodriguez Lopez<\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

\ud83c\uddea\ud83c\uddf8 Spain – A massive mobilisation of civil society and institutional groups including Greenpeace Spain is demanding that the Regional Government of Andalusia immediately revoke the permits for toxic discharges into the river\u2019s estuary.<\/p>\n\n


Organisations warn of the risk of turning the Guadalquivir into a \u201csewer for mining waste\u201d through the discharge of more than 115,000 million liters of water contaminated with heavy metals. These discharges threaten protected areas of high ecological value, such as Do\u00f1ana and the Natura 2000 network, and also pose a threat to public health due to their impact on fisheries, agriculture, and the drinking water we obtain from aquifers.<\/p>\n\n

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

\ud83c\udde9\ud83c\uddea Germany – Greenpeace agriculture experts measure nitrate levels in surface waters near Karlstadt in der Main-Spessart constituency, represented in the federal parliament by Alexander Hoffmann(CSU). The environmental campaigners take a water sample from the local stream and analyse the results on site.<\/p>\n\n

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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.<\/p>\n\n

To see more Greenpeace photos and videos, please visit our Media Library<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

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