Lighting up the Niagara Falls in Canada, standing up against the extreme right in France, and shining a light on plastic pollution in the Czech Republic, here are a selection of the best images from Greenpeace work around the world this week.
🌍 Global – Around the world, Greenpeace representatives have visited South Korean embassies calling for the release of five Greenpeace International activists who conducted a peaceful protest against plastic production and pollution during the INC-5 Global Plastics Treaty negotiations in Busan in December 2024, and who have since been unable to leave the country.
🇨🇦 Canada – Ahead of a federal election, Greenpeace Canada activists projected powerful messages on the world famous Niagara Falls, including “Don’t Trump Canada”, “Elbows up” and “RESIST”.
Greenpeace Canada is calling out politicians like Trump and Poilievre for spreading fear and division, while polluting industries like oil and gas seek to take advantage of a crisis they helped create. Greenpeace Canada is asking Poilievre and all political parties to protect people and the environment, not polluters and billionaires.
🇧🇷 Brazil – Indigenous people from the Munduruku and Guarani Kaiowá people were received by Minister Gilmar Mendes at the Federal Supreme Court (STF). During the meeting, they challenged the decisions that have been made by the Conciliation Board, created by the Court to debate the application of Law No. 14,701/2023, popularly known as the Temporal Framework Law, and asked that their rights be respected throughout the mediation and judgment process.
This meeting was an important victory for the Munduruku people after the mobilization that blocked the BR-230 highway in Itaituba, in the southwest of Pará, for two weeks.
🇫🇷 France – Greenpeace France volunteers demonstrated on April 12, 2025, for democracy and the “rule of law” in response to the far-right « Rassemblement National » party’s comments against the “tyranny of judges” following the conviction of Marine Le Pen (president of the Rassemblement National group in the National Assembly) for embezzlement of public funds.
🇨🇿 Czech Republic – Greenpeace Czech Republic installed a giant clock made from 750 used PET bottles – some of which the volunteers collected as waste in nature – near the Parliament building in Prague to remind the politicians they promised to introduce a deposit system for PET bottles and aluminum cans but so far they haven’t. And that they are running out of time because the elections are closing in.
🇧🇷 Brazil – Indigenous people from the Munduruku and Guarani Kaiowá people were received by Minister Gilmar Mendes at the Federal Supreme Court (STF) in Brasilia, to debate the application of the Temporal Framework Law, and to ask that their rights be respected throughout the mediation and judgment process.
🇦🇺 Australia – Greenpeace Australia Pacific Activists stage a ‘hazard clean-up’ activity outside the Liberal Party’s Federal Election launch in Sydney. Opposition Leader Peter Dutton plans to build 7 nuclear reactors in Australia, prolonging our use of coal and gas while endangering workers and community to the risk of contamination and accident with radioactive waste.
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