From an air pollution protest in South Africa to a blockade in New Zealand, to a garbage mountain protest in Germany, here are a few of our favourite images from Greenpeace’s work around the world this week.

🇸🇪 South Africa -Greenpeace activists and communities living in some of South Africa’s most polluted regions staged a powerful peaceful protest outside the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE) in Pretoria to denounce South Africa’s deadly air pollution crisis and demand urgent governmental action.

🇩🇪 Germany – Greenpeace activists stage an impressive image for more environmental protection. A kayak disguised as the Titanic heads straight for an iceberg of packaging waste around three meters high in the harbour basin of Muenster. The scene is accompanied by activists on stand-up paddleboards with banners. The action is part of a campaign for a municipal packaging tax and is intended to send a strong signal for more environmental and resource protection.

🇩🇪 Germany – In front of the Ministry of Defence, Greenpeace Youth protests with a five-square-metre banner reading ‘We don’t want to march into our future’, together with the German Peace Society – United War Resisters (DFG-VK), against the foreseeable reintroduction of compulsory military service.

🇳🇿 New Zealand – During the second day of the meeting of the Global Ocean Treaty Preparatory Commission, Greenpeace held an event at the United Nations Headquarters in partnership with activists, scientists and indigenous community members. Together, they made the case for large new protected areas of the high seas in the Atlantic and across the globe, which could help to reach the 30 by 30 target. The event, featuring panellists from Bermuda, Nigeria, and Canada, demanded integrity in recognising and empowering local and Indigenous rights, allowing for co-governance rooted in both scientific and traditional knowledge. This grounded, inclusive approach will ensure these Marine Protected Areas are both ecologically robust and socially just.

🇸🇪 Sweden – “Amazonia” travelling letters projection show at Gustaf-Adolfs Square in Gothenburg.
Greenpeace brings the Amazon to the heart of Europe through a powerful street-level action: giant AMAZONIA letters touring major cities. Through emotional messages, video projections, and Indigenous voices, the action calls for urgent climate justice and forest protection — ahead of the historic COP30 in Belém.

Greenpeace has been a pioneer of photo activism for more than 50 years, and remains committed to bearing witness and exposing environmental injustice through the images we capture.

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