Tag: Greenpeace NZ
Special report: Dreams, dollars and destruction of a Papuan rainforest
Melanie Reid's video story on the Tanah Merah megaproject. Video: Newsroom
SPECIAL REPORT: By Melanie Reid and Bonnie Sumner of Newsroom
Newsroom.co.nz
An Auckland property developer is...
Davey Edward, Rainbow Warrior campaigner in Rongelap, dies at 68
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
A former Rainbow Warrior campaigner and Greenpeace International technical manager, Davey Edward, has died in Perth, Australia. He was 68.
Edward had...
Case #017 RNZ podcast – The bombing of the Rainbow Warrior
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
On 10 July 1985 the Greenpeace flagship, the Rainbow Warrior, was sunk at an Auckland wharf.
Two French secret agents planted two limpet...
Climate Commission report gives NZ dairy industry ‘free pass to pollute’,...
By Katie Todd, RNZ News Reporter
Critics have hammered the Climate Change Commission's agriculture goals in New Zealand, saying it has missed the mark on...
25-tonne deep sea mining robot ‘stuck’ on Pacific Ocean seabed during...
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
One of the world’s first deep sea mining pilot tests has resulted in a huge machine being stuck on the seafloor...
Oil companies get caught spying on NZ children and the story...
COMMENT: By Martyn Bradbury
Less than 24 hours after New Zealand investigative journalist Nicky Hager’s latest extraordinary story of how oil companies have been spying...
How Pacific environmental defenders are coping with the covid pandemic
SPECIAL REPORT: By Sri Krishnamurthi of Pacific Media Watch
In this new covid-19 world, environmental and climate crisis defenders are developing new ways to cope...
French nuclear tests: ‘I bury people nearly every day, what was...
By Matthew Scott, reporting for the Pacific Media Centre
The day began with a video, showing a disparate collection of arresting images - the drowned...
35 years on, Tahiti’s Temaru likely guest in Rainbow Warrior rewind
Flashback: Tagata Pasifika's John Pulu talks to Oscar Temaru in 2016.
By David Robie
One of the champions of the South Pacific’s nuclear-free and independence campaigners,...
NZ’s ‘toothless’ Zero Carbon Bill has no bite, says Greenpeace chief
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
New Zealand's Zero Carbon Amendment Bill has no ability to enforce its climate change targets, warns Greenpeace Aotearoa's chief, a former...
Journalist tells of Rainbow Warrior bombing, Pacific fallout on ABC
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Pacific environmental and political journalist David Robie has recalled the bombing of the original Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior 33 years ago...
Bentley Effect doco aims to ‘inspire’ NZ fight against oil, gas...
The Bentley Effect ... "inspiring celebration of the power of community". Video: The Bentley Effect Movie
By Kendall Hutt in Auckland
In 2010, gas exploration in...
Keep your ‘green pledges’, NZ ecology groups warn key political leaders
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
A "supergroup" of New Zealand environmental organisations has sent an open letter to the leaders of four key political parties, warning...
NZ law student takes government to court over climate policy ‘failure’
Hamilton law student Sarah Thomson speaking about her court case against the NZ government. Video: Greenpeace NZ
A New Zealand law student is battling the...
NZ ‘oil ministry’ charges Greenpeace chief, 2 other Amazon Warrior protesters
Russel Norman swimming in front of the deep sea oil exploration ship Amazon Warrior. Video: Greenpeace NZ
Greenpeace NZ executive director Russel Norman has been...
Greenpeace activist swimmers halt seismic oil exploration ‘Beast’
Three Greenpeace activists -- including Greenpeace NZ executive director Russel Norman -- today swam in front of the 125m Amazon Warrior, nicknamed "The Beast".
The...
LIVE: Greenpeace NZ’s chief warns Amazon Warrior over ‘cataclysmic’ climate change
Greenpeace NZ executive director Russel Norman speaking to the master of the Amazon Warrior. Video: Greenpeace NZ
The Greenpeace New Zealand boat Taitu has "intercepted"...
New Greenpeace vessel key to ‘do or die’ battle against oil...
By Kendall Hutt in Auckland
In light of news of President Donald Trump’s executive order today -- undoing integral climate change policies implemented under former...
NZ climate change protesters blockade oil conference in Taranaki
Climate change protesters blockaded the Petroleum Summit in the New Zealand city of New Plymouth today where the government was expected to announce the...
HSBC accused of being ‘dirty banker’ financing palm oil forest destruction
This undercover footage by Greenpeace shows bulldozers destroying Indonesian rainforest. HSBC, one of the biggest banks in the world, is accused of lending millions...
Greenpeace video shows NZ oil seismic blasts ‘betrayal’ over climate change
The Schlumberger seismic survey vessel, Amazon Warrior, seismic blasting approximately 120 nautical miles off the East Coast of New Zealand's North Island. Video: Nigel...