Greenpeace has given new meaning to a statue in New Zealand, occupied an airport for 36 hours, and celebrated Valentine’s Day with a political march. Here are a few of our favourite images from Greenpeace work this week. Comment below which you like best!

New Zealand – Greenpeace Aotearoa turned the iconic Rakaia salmon statue into a cartoon-style ‘dead fish’, adding crosses for eyes and a speech bubble reading ‘Fonterra killed my family’, in a protest over dairy industry pollution. The town of Rakaia had recently made headlines after a local fishing competition announced that they would no longer be competing over fish size due to the drop in salmon numbers. Instead, anyone who caught a fish would be entered into a raffle for prizes.

The Netherlands – Activists from Greenpeace Netherlands occupy the main terminal of Lelystad Airport, Netherlands. The group is calling on the new government to cancel plans for opening the airport to commercial leisure traffic.

Closing Lelystad Airport creates space for something much better. The activists are visualising this through an artwork made of Post-its in the main building. On these Post-its, alternative plans for the airport are written, submitted by people via an idea box.

France – Greenpeace France proclaims its love for places embodying values ​​threatened by the rise of the far right.

One month before the municipal elections of 15 and 22 March 2026 (a crucial vote for the future of local solidarity), Greenpeace France volunteers mobilised on Valentine’s Day to publicly affirm their commitment to places essential to local life: spaces of solidarity, culture, rights, and ecology.

They aim to raise public awareness of a major political issue: the rise of the far right and its concrete consequences on local life.

The volunteers went to Place de l’Amarre and the Grand Marché in Toulon to talk with passersby.

Italy – On the day of the first meeting of the ‘Board of Peace’ for Gaza, Amnesty International Italy and Greenpeace Italy brought a giant screen in front of government building (Palazzo Chigi) and the Ministry of Defense (Farnesina Palace), displaying images of Israeli bombings since last October’s ceasefire agreement, to denounce the continued violations of the truce in the Gaza Strip. The screen also displayed messages such as: ‘Does this look like a truce to you?’, ‘130 days of ceasefire, 600 Palestinians killed’, and the demands of ‘Enough weapons to Israel’ and ‘Stop the genocide in Gaza’ addressed to the Meloni government and the international community.

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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