Health and Safety

Emergencies
In an emergency, call 111. An ambulance will be located at the corner of [xx street] to assist with medical emergencies.

General Health and Safety
With COVID cases on the rise again, it’s important to protect each other. Please stay home if you’re unwell. This is a long fight, and there will be more opportunities to protest the Government’s war on nature in the future.

Accessibility

In Aotea Square, we will have sign language interpreters and a designated accessible area with seating, right in front of the stage and near the accessible entrance to the square.

If you need to be dropped off close to the march, you can use the Q theatre car park on Greys Avenue.

If you have any questions or concerns, you can contact us on [email protected] or find one of our friendly volunteers in high vis.

Map of Aotea Square

What is the March for Nature?

With a broad coalition of environmental and community groups, Greenpeace is organising a march for June 8 to oppose the fast track bill. We’ve called it the March For Nature. 

It will start at 1pm from Aotea Square in Auckland and head down Queen Street.

This demonstration is a peaceful protest against the Luxon Government’s War on Nature and against the one-stop shop for environmental destruction that is the fast track approvals bill.

Why do we need to protest the fast track legislation?

The vast majority of people in New Zealand care deeply about protecting nature. But the fast track consenting bill the Luxon Government has introduced could be the single worst law ever passed for the environment.

It’s a war on nature, and it undermines democracy and Te Tiriti o Waitangi.

We cannot stand by and allow the forests and oceans of Aotearoa to be turned into open-cast mines, their rivers and lakes turned into sewers, or precious wildlife to be condemned to extinction.

That’s why we’ve announced the March for Nature.

What is the fast track approvals bill?

The fast-track approvals bill is at the heart of this Government’s systematic war on nature, which includes an attack on environmental protections critical to preserving fresh water, forests, oceans, and wildlife. 

The fast-track legislation would give just three Ministers the power to approve or deny development projects. The draft Bill is designed to grant almost unrestricted power to these Ministers to grant consents for projects they perceive to be significant. It is wider open to corruption; it comes at the expense of the environment; and it ignores the concerns of local communities and tangata whenua. 

How can we stop the fast track bill?

No tactic on its own can win, but we have seen before that big marches can have a great impact. When the John Key Government announced that it would open conservation land to mining, we organised a similar protest. It was huge, and the Key Government soon backed down. 

We’ve already shown the strength of opposition to the bill, gathering more than 15,000 submissions from Greenpeace supporters telling the government why the fast track is the wrong track. Now we’re ready to escalate.

There are moments in every campaign where the energy builds to a point that a march can be big and effective, and now is one of those times!