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The Press The fate of the hoiho - among the world’s rarest penguin species - rests with two ministers.

The Hoiho is one of the world's rarest penguin species - only found in New Zealand - they are in trouble - dying in fishing nets, and starving.

“We are watching extinction happen, colony by colony."

- Matt Hall, director of Research and Legal at ELI.

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Fishing changes threaten ocean and industry | E-Tangata “We’re left to fend for our moana by ourselves, calling for reinforcements but being given scraps.” — Nicola Rata-MacDonald.

More objections to proposed reforms to fisheries laws.
"After all, if there are no more fish, there’s no longer a fishing industry."

Nicola Rata-MacDonald, chief executive, Ngāti Manuhiri Settlement Trust, co-chair of the Hauraki Gulf Forum.

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Enough words. It's time for action. Email the PM and demand the NZ Government enact real, meaningful sanctions now.

Demand our Govt take a stand 👉🏽 Email the PM now: greenpeace.nz/c1dm9f

Demand real sanctions on Israel now

Palestinians are being starved to death. Netanyahu has just announced plans to forcibly seize Gaza city while Israeli forces starve Palestinians

This is genocide. Yet the NZ Government refuses to impose real and meaningful sanctions on Israel.

We’ve all seen the images. Palestinians starved by Israeli forces, as Netanyahu vows to seize Gaza City by force. This is genocide.

Yet New Zealand’s Govt hides behind statements & refuses to sanction Israel. Enough delay, it’s past time for action. #FreePalestine. 1/2

Did you know methane emissions from Fonterra and the global livestock industry are 80 times more potent than CO2?

It's time to take action. Let's pressure world leaders to regulate these industries and stop their destructive practices and growth.

Take action NOW: greenpeace.nz/b95joo
#toomanycows

Climate pollution from intensive livestock farming is cooking the climate - meat and dairy giants like Fonterra are some of the biggest climate polluters!

Join us in holding the intensive livestock industry accountable: greenpeace.nz/b95joo #nzpol #toomanycows

We've written to Mayor Ben Bell of Gore District Council to invite him to work with us on addressing nitrate contamination of drinking water by intensive dairy.

If you think access to safe healthy drinking water is a fundamental human right, take action now: greenpeace.nz/ahtaez #nzpol #water

🚨BREAKING: Greenpeace activists just exposed the Big Oil lobbyists inside UN #PlasticsTreaty talks partnering with oil producing countries to try to sell out the treaty.
Tell world leaders and ministers: Deliver a strong treaty that cuts plastic production now www.greenpeace.org/PlasticsTreaty

Luxon's Council of Cronies - who you know, not what you know - Greenpeace Aotearoa Luxon's ignoring science and putting lobbyists into positions of power to help out the dairy industry. Here's the full story.

Luxon and his Government have given the dairy industry unprecedented power. That's because in Christopher's council of cronies, it's all about who you know - not what you know. Here's the full story 👇
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#nzpol

Govt’s anti-climate policies should be top of hazards list in latest briefing document - Greenpeace Aotearoa Greenpeace says the Govt's Briefing on Building Resilience to Hazards is deeply ironic, as its policies are pouring fuel on the fire of climate change.

PRESS RELEASE: Govt’s anti-climate policies should be top of hazards list in latest briefing document www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pre... #nzpol #climate

Sign the petition here, calling for cameras on boats footage to be made public
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Jones moves to green light ocean destruction through reforms Greenpeace says moves to weaken ocean protection through dodgy fisheries “reforms” will be met with strong opposition, as Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones announces he wants to proceed with…

PRESS RELEASE:
Just announced, Minister Shane Jones wants to push through controversial fisheries reforms that will give the fishing industry carte blanche on ocean destruction and weaken transparency and public input.

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Greenpeace turns on NZ First over its support for corporate land grab bill During today’s public submission hearings on the ACT Party’s Overseas Investment Amendment Bill,  Greenpeace took direct aim at NZ First, highlighting the hypocrisy of NZ First’s support for the Bill…

Why is NZ First supporting the corporate land grab bill, ACT Party’s 'Overseas Investment Amendment Bill'? Watch the Greenpeace oral submission to select committee yesterday here: greenpeace.nz/bg9zha

Bathurst Resources employees threaten Stockton anti-coal activists - Greenpeace Aotearoa Environmental organisations are condemning Bathurst Resources' intimidation of anti-coal activists occupying Stockton Coal Mine.

PRESS RELEASE: Bathurst Resources employees issue threats, fire warning shots at coal activists www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pre... #nzpol
@350nz.bsky.social @coalactionnz.bsky.social

World in $1.5tn ‘plastics crisis’ hitting health from infancy to old age, report warns Plastic production has increased more than 200 times since 1950 and hits health at every stage from extraction to disposal, says review in the Lancet

The world is in a “plastics crisis” causing disease and death from infancy to old age.
#GlobalPlasticsTreaty
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Why drilling for fossil fuels is not expected to fix our energy crisis The government is touting oil and gas exploration as the answer. But there are grave doubts it will work.

The Luxon government is gambling with gas, making it harder for NZ meet climate change targets.
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#nzpol #climatechange

Forty years of resistance in the Pacific On 10 July 2025 in a dawn ceremony led by Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei, we commemorated the 40th anniversary of the state-sanctioned bombing of the original Rainbow Warrior in Auckland, and…

READ: Forty years of resistance in the Pacific

The Rainbow Warrior bombing was the French government’s brutal attempt to silence Greenpeace’s growing influence. It failed. That spirit of resistance lives on in opposition to the threat of seabed mining.

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Luxon opens the door to billions in taxpayer-funded oil field decommissioning costs In an act of climate denial, the Luxon Government is today planning to pass legislation to try to restart offshore oil and gas exploration, but they are also slipping in…

The Luxon government's plans to restart oil drilling means we could pay billions for the clean up.
#ClimateCrisis
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Government subsidies for dirty dairy dams will lead to polluted drinking water - Greenpeace Aotearoa Greenpeace is calling on the Government to scrap subsidies for irrigation dams like the Ruataniwha Dam - or risk polluted drinking water.

PRESS RELEASE: Government subsidies for dirty dairy dams will lead to polluted drinking water www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pre... #nzpol

Forty years of resistance in the Pacific On 10 July 2025 in a dawn ceremony led by Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei, we commemorated the 40th anniversary of the state-sanctioned bombing of the original Rainbow Warrior in Auckland, and…

Deep sea mining is another form of colonisation and extraction, driven by greed, powered by distant governments and corporations.
#StopDeepSeaMining #ProtectTheOceans
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Now the NZ taxpayer will again have to foot the bill for cleaning up the mess left behind by oil companies.
#FossilFuels #ClimateJustice

Govt rolls back clean-up liabilities for offshore drillers Five years after the taxpayers got left with a $300m clean-up bill for an oil field, Shane Jones is weakening the rules put in place to prevent a repeat.

Fossil fuels Minister Shane Jones is undoing offshore oil and gas clean-up liability reforms made in the wake of the Tui oil field disaster.
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The Post The seabed of the South Taranaki Bight might look like a desert of black sand, but there are plenty of smaller species living in it, a researcher says.

Wind turbines off the coast of Taranaki could act as artificial reefs and have a positive impact on biodiversity. The opposite of Trans-Tasman Resources' destructive seabed mining plans.
#BanSeabedMining #ProtectTheOceans

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Introducing the dairy tycoons - they're making millions while cooking the climate.

Take action against the intensive dairy industry's destruction of the climate - greenpeace.nz/b95joo #nzpol #climate

New Zealand isn’t just failing to act on ocean protection, it’s actively undoing progress 'Representing Aotearoa at the UN Ocean Conference, I felt embarrassed by our lack of leadership and our inaction.'

New Zealand is not backing ocean protection. Embarrassing. And the world is noticing.

We're the only country still carrying out destructive bottom trawling the High Seas of the South Pacific.

#ProtectTheOceans #BanBottomTrawling

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Elation as Whanganui gets voice in fast-track seabed mining decision 'We’ve had to fight tooth and nail just to get this far,' says councillor.

Whanganui District Council is named a relevant authority in Trans-Tasman Resources' fast-track application process for its seabed mining project.
#BanSeabedMining #ProtectTheOceans
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Stop Bishop's freshwater pollution plan - submit before 27 July! The Luxon Government has a freshwater pollution plan which will worsen water quality. Make your submission against these changes now!

This weekend (till midnight Sunday 27 July) is the deadline to have your say on the Government's proposals to roll back protections for freshwater - protecting NZ's precious streams, rivers lakes, aquifers.

Speak up against the proposed removal of freshwater protections! ✍🏼 greenpeace.nz/j6fdgi

‘We were heard’: the Pacific students who took their climate fight to the ICJ – and won In a packed court thousands of kilometres from home, Cynthia Houniuhi saw years of work come to fruition with the landmark ICJ opinion on climate harm

‘We were heard’: the Pacific students who took their climate fight to the International Court of Justice – and won .
#ClimateJustice
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Minister seeks advice on restricting seabed mining A select committee unanimously found changes are needed to ensure seabed mining doesn't prevent the development of offshore wind farms.

Seabed mining is incompatible with the development of an offshore wind industry.
#BanSeabedMining #ProtectTheOceans

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Dairy pollution is contaminating people's drinking water. Fed Farmers are opposing every measure to protect freshwater, and pushing the Government to remove existing protections on freshwater.