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State House Should Embrace Clean Energy Alternatives
Nairobi, 11 July 2019 –Responding to the news that State House has advertised a tender for the supply of charcoal, Greenpeace Africa’s Campaigner, Claire Nasike has said: “With a…
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Meat Laced with Lethal Chemicals Exposes a Broken Food System
Nairobi, 16 July 2019: In response to the expose by NTV revealing that meat sold in local markets is laced with dangerous chemicals to make it look fresh for longer,…
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DRC: Greenpeace Africa welcomes the criminal conviction of three wildlife traffickers
Kinshasa, 9 July 2019 – Following the conviction of three wildlife traffickers to a term of five months imprisonment and the payment of damages of $ 5,000 by the Tribunal…
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Greenpeace: moratorium can help stop senseless whale deaths
28 June 2019, Johannesburg: Responding to news that a second humpback whale has died off the coast of False Bay from being entangled in octopus fishery nets, Melita Steele, Senior…
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Coal Kills: Activists in Kenya Shout it Out Loud
It’s a cold morning in Nairobi as Kenyan citizens head to their respective jobs in a bid to build the nation. In the capital’s ‘Uhuru Park’ at the Freedom Corner…
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Media expedition to understand the Congo Basin forest’s peatlands
Kinshasa, June 14, 2019 – Greenpeace Africa and scientists from the Universities of Leeds (UK) and Kisangani (DRC) are organising an expedition to the peatlands of the Congo Basin forest,…
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Using Zai pits to harvest scanty rain water
The 2019 March to May long rains have been scanty, unreliable and inconsistent. In Ikombe, Machakos county, Muthama; a seasoned farmer, embarked on early planting of kidney beans in order…
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Biodiversity loss: urgent need for forest, ocean protection and dietary change
Paris, 6 May 2019 – The UN’s biodiversity report warning of mass species loss due to human impacts must spark urgent action to protect the world’s forests and oceans and…
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Greenpeace Africa volunteers handover Plastic Ban petition to top political parties
27 April 2019, South Africa – Greenpeace Africa volunteers from across South Africa visited the head offices of each of South Africa’s top political parties to deliver a petition calling…
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Plastic monsters from around the world return home to Nestlé
Something amazing happened this past month. Plastic monsters came to life around the world, rising up from dirty landfills, climbing over piles of trash, and even swimming up and out…