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Secret recording confirms NZ First blocking ocean protection
Following confirmation from Stuart Nash that NZ First is blocking ocean protection, it’s time to exclude them from fishing and ocean protection decisions, says Greenpeace.
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Leaked phone call exposes NZ First control of fishing policy
A leaked recording of a phone call made by Fisheries Minister Stuart Nash confirms that NZ First is controlling critical elements of the Government’s fishing policy, in particular the decision to stop cameras on fishing boats.
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Dolphin Threat Management Plan promising, but not transformational
The Māui and Hector’s Threat Management Plan, released today by the Government, makes some promising steps towards protecting the most endangered dolphin species in the world, but is not transformational.
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Super soil and damning dams: how can Kiwi farmers cope with drought?
Paddocks full of dry, brown grass. Urban drinking water dams shrunk to puddles. Farmers frustrated and scared amid the stress of not having enough food for their animals. Right across…
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Dead albatross may save us
Greenpeace has released a heart wrenching video detailing the last days of a Toroa (Southern Royal Albatross) - which died after eating an entire plastic drink bottle.
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Submission on the COVID-19 Recovery (Fast-track Consenting) Bill
We've been calling on the Government to Build Back Better in New Zealand's Covid recovery. Now there has been a development.
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Fonterra slammed in new global emissions report
Fonterra has been named and shamed as one of 13 global dairy companies causing the climate crisis to worsen, in a damning new report by the United States-based Institute of…
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Fast-track Bill dodges Govt climate test
Greenpeace says the Government is dodging its own guidelines to push through a new fast-track covid law.
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2019 Greenpeace NZ Annual Impact Report
For Greenpeace New Zealand, 2019 was the year to deal with some unfinished business with the oil industry. We had achieved a historic win in 2018 with the government ban on issuing new oil and gas exploration permits (except onshore Taranaki). It was a long hard-fought campaign but, all of us together, we did it.
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No one is safe until we all are: Global solutions for our global biodiversity crisis
Protecting our ecosystem means protecting ourselves. The leading driver of emerging diseases is land use change. Deforestation and land-clearing for agriculture, resource extraction, and human settlement bring human populations into contact with wild animals and put us at risk.