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We work together to usher in a greener, fairer and more peaceful future for all. One where people and planet do not suffer at the expense of corporate profit or the elite few. One where the ways we feed and fuel our world work with nature, and not against it. Join the movement.
What You Can Do
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Rainbow Warrior Auckland Open Days 2025
This July, the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior returned to Aotearoa, 40 years after French Government agents bombed the original ship in Auckland.
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Volunteer with Greenpeace
Join a team of passionate volunteers & demand change today. Find out about volunteering in one of New Zealand’s largest environmental organisations.
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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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Greenpeace desktop and mobile calendar downloads
Here’s a small gift for June 2024 – a digital calendar you can use on your desktop or phone. This month, we’ve chosen a beautiful shot of a humpback whale in the Indian Ocean.
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Monthly wallpaper downloads
For January’s digital wallpaper, please enjoy featuring a vibrant pink peony flower
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Greenpeace desktop and mobile calendar downloads
Here’s a small gift to start 2023 – a digital calendar and wallpaper you can use on your desktop or phone. For October, we’ve chosen a majestic polar bear, photographed north of Svalbard.
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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
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Donate
Donate to Greenpeace today. We take no money from corporations or governments. Our independence and ability to speak and act freely is our greatest strength. To maintain that freedome, we rely on the generosity of people like you to keep us in action.
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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.
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Tell big companies to drop dirty palm oil
The time is up for forest-destroying products. We’re calling on big brands like Unilever, Nestlé and Mondelez to keep their promises about dirty palm oil
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Save the Amazon
Losing the Amazon means losing the home of indigenous and traditional communities, precious habitats, and the fight against climate change. Losing the Amazon means losing the home of indigenous and traditional communities, precious habitats, and the fight against climate change. Preserving rainforests can contribute to solving the climate crisis we’re facing. That’s exactly what indigenous…
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BRIEFING: Stop the First Domino – Annex 1 Countries, the Methane Threat to 1.5C and “No Additional Warming”
In the lead-up to COP30, Greenpeace warns big emitters are backsliding on climate by adopting the concept of ‘no additional warming’.
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Greenpeace submission on the Government’s draft Fuel Supply Resilience Plan
New Zealand can become energy independent and resilient to global fuel shocks by reducing our reliance on fossil fuels and transitioning our transport network and economy to clean, renewable alternatives.
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BRIEFING Methane and GWP*: how the livestock lobby’s creative accounting undermines equity and threatens to derail climate action
Agribusiness lobby groups are running a coordinated global campaign to cripple efforts to reduce methane emissions
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Greenpeace Aotearoa submission on the Proposals to Amend the New Zealand Food Notice: Maximum Residue Levels for Agricultural Compounds
We thank you for the opportunity to provide comment on these proposals.
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Gene Technology Bill Submission
In the early 2000s, the GE Free NZ movement successfully fended off the release of Genetically Engineered organisms into our food and the environment. We insisted on a precautionary approach…
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Greenpeace Submission to the Methane Review Panel on the Review of Methane Science and Target
Given that nearly half of New Zealand’s greenhouse gas emissions come from agriculture, the main source of which is methane from the livestock sector, it is imperative for methane emission reduction to occur in this sector in order for New Zealand to achieve its climate commitments under the Paris Agreement.
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REPORT: Turning down the heat
Pulling the climate emergency break on big meat and dairy
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Greenpeace notice of appeal against Hiringa hydrogen-to-urea Energy
Have a read of Greenpeace’s appeal, backed by the hapū of Ngāruahine in South Taranaki.
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2025: A year of wins, action and resistance
2025 was a year of people power, hard-fought wins, and standing up against political and corporate harm.
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Mining rules rolled back – wetlands and biodiversity hotspots in the firing line
The Government confirms a major rollback of environmental protections, clearing the way for mining in and around wetlands, significant natural areas, and highly productive soils.
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Luxon’s putting Aotearoa up for sale – in the dead of the night
What is the Overseas Investment Amendment Bill and why have you barely heard of it?
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Three Greenpeace activists removed by police from Fonterra nitrate pollution protest during shareholder meeting
Three Greenpeace activists have been removed by police from Fonterra’s downtown Auckland offices for protesting nitrate pollution.
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Greenpeace dumps 2 metric tonnes of slime at Fonterra HQ before shareholders meeting
Greenpeace activists have upset Fonterra’s Shareholders’ Fund meeting at the dairy giant’s Auckland HQ this morning, establishing a ‘nitrate emergency quarantine zone’ around the building and dumping 2000 litres of…
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Speaking up for the hoiho penguin
Hoiho, the New Zealand yellow eyed penguin, is one of the rarest penguins in the world. But its South Island population is collapsing.
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Govt abandons NZ’s climate credibility with shameful methane bill
“Utterly shameful”. Greenpeace Aotearoa condemns the Government’s new methane targets following first reading in Parliament.
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Denmark moves to lower limits on nitrate in drinking water – when will NZ follow suit?
Denmark’s Environment Minister is making moves to dramatically lower the legal limit for nitrate in drinking water.
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Dangerous Fast-Track changes made as nature is reaching breaking point – Greenpeace
Greenpeace says the passing of the Fast-Track Approvals Amendment Bill last night makes an already damaging law even more dangerous for Aotearoa’s environment.
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Can’t see the water for the well – crony capitalism and the RMA
The Government’s two bills to replace the Resource Management Act will accelerate the destruction of nature and embed the crony capitalism endemic under this Government.