Greenpeace International executive director Jennifer Morgan​ said in a statement that as they mark 50 years since the first Greenpeace voyage, biodiversity loss is accelerating, the climate emergency is deepening and inequality is growing. We need healthy farms for healthy land, healthy water and a healthy climate,” he said. Greenpeace Aotearoa is also running campaigns aimed at stopping seabed mining here and in the Pacific, protecting ocean biodiversity from industrial fishing and eliminating single-use plastics. Marten van Dijl/Greenpeace Victor Pickering, a Greenpeace International activist from Fiji, displays a banner reading “Our Pacific, Not Yours to Destroy!”In conjunction with the 50th anniversary, the organisation released an updated history of Greenpeace in New Zealand. Making Waves II is written by author and former Greenpeace campaign manager Michael Szabo, and continues the story from the original Making Waves book written by him and published in 1991.

Source: Stuff September 14, 2021 17:00 UTC