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WATCH: "Just thought it would always be here." Ngaio Tiuka, Ngāti Kahungunu's Director of Environment & Natural Resource Unit, tells us how Hawke's Bay - Te Matau-a-Māui - waterways are being sucked dry by too much irrigation. #ReturnToTheRivers #nzpol youtube.com/watch?v=7prqI3…

NORTH CANTERBURY: Join us next week on Saturday 6th September for a free screening of our new documentary, Something in the Water, followed by a Q&A event focused on clean water! Register to come along here: community.greenpeace.org.nz/events/freshwa… We can't wait to see you! #canterbury #nzpol #water

The Environment Canterbury elections are fast approaching - and we need your help to make fresh water a priority! Head to greenpeace.nz/votewater to get involved, order posters and flyers, or find events near you! #nzpol #toomanycows

Alternative drinking water sources are being sought by councils as nitrate pollution worsens - but one academic warns authorities they cannot “engineer their way” out of a looming crisis. #drinkingwater thepress.co.nz/environment/36…

Watchdog just finished our 20 day marathon to submit under Fast Track against the Waihi North Project including the proposed mine under Wharekirauponga - learned so much more about how bad the risks to environment and economically shaky this project is !

💚“If politicians won’t stand up for nature, we will.” 💚  That was Forest & Bird Chief Executive Nicola Toki a year ago at the March for Nature, where 20,000 New Zealanders marched down Auckland’s Queen Street opposing the Fast-track Amendment Bill.  Now, in the last few months, we’ve seen:  🌊 500 people on the water protesting a South Taranaki seabed mining project  🏖️ protests against two projects proposed for Northland  ⚒️ protesters in coal buckets objecting to a massive coal mining expansion in kiwi habitat on the West Coast    The Fast-track Approvals Act tries to silence our voices – cutting public consultation – but it won’t succeed, with thousands of New Zealanders across the motu already standing up for the places and species they love.   Nature matters. And everyday Kiwis should defend their right to be heard, to protect the land, and shape a future where nature can thrive.  From conservation to advocacy, there are many ways to support Forest & Bird’s huge range of mahi: forestandbird.org.nz/support-us  📷March for Nature, June 2024, credit Kirk Serpes.

Anne Salmond asks who is #NZ “Government working for, and why? In the case of industrial #forestry, is it ratepayers taxpayers, or international forestry companies that pay no tax, and expatriate their profits?” Incomprehensible changes to forestry regs: newsroom.co.nz/2025/08/23/ann…

Anne Salmond: Who is this Government working for? On a range of environmental and legal measures involving forestry, the coalition Government seems to be doing the opposite of what people and communities need, writes Dame Anne Salmond newsroom.co.nz/2025/08/23/ann…

That river your kids swim in every summer? The stream that runs through your neighbourhood? The lake your whānau picnics beside? They’re in trouble. Most of our rivers and lakes are polluted. Some swimming spots are too risky to enter. Our native freshwater species are disappearing fast. 🌿 76% of our freshwater fish are threatened 🦆 90% of wetlands are gone 🚱 Nitrate pollution in drinking water is on the rise But here’s the hopeful bit: councils can turn things around. They decide how much pollution is too much. They shape the future of development and farming. They can protect and restore the places we all love. 🗳️ This local election, ask your candidates: 💬 “What will you do to clean up our rivers and lakes?” 💬 “How will you protect [insert local river/lake] for future generations?” Because when we vote to protect water, we vote to protect life. #VoteNature #YourVoteYourBackyard #HealthyWaterways #LocalElectionsNZ #Kaitiakitanga #ProtectWhatYouLove

"This recent onslaught confirms that the Government’s environmental credentials are completely in tatters." thepost.co.nz/politics/36079…

“What this means is that ongoing, severe pollution is being made legal at the stroke of a pen & that appears to directly contradict our obligations under our EU Free Trade Agreement." choosecleanwater.org.nz/in-the-media/p…

Govt is allowing pollution of our waterways by amending the RMA to waive consent requirements - a backward step to undermine water standards. Ministers are stacking up pollution for future Govts & future generations to clean up. #pollutioncoststhefuture rnz.co.nz/news/political…

It's it caving or is it capture? This Govt's position on environmental policy is almost indistinguishable from major polluting industries.

"The late changes were a 'conspicuous example of how far vested interests are controlling this Govt'. 'Where pollution has gone too far, the answer is to fix the pollution, not change the law so it becomes legal.'" newsroom.co.nz/2025/08/13/las…

This Government is in bed with polluters. Changing the law to allow more pollution, more contaminated drinking water, more dead estuaries, more choking algal blooms, more sewage overflows, more dead fish, more threatened wildlife... rnz.co.nz/news/political…

“Evidence base supporting this proposal is extremely poor." Luxon promised evidence-based policy but is producing policy that, not only lacks an evidence-base, goes against expert evidence. NZ's freshwater must not be destroyed as the Gov has proposed. thepress.co.nz/nz-news/360772…?

PRESS RELEASE: Govt subsidies for dirty dairy dams will lead to polluted drinking water greenpeace.org/aotearoa/press… #nzpol

In today’s NZ Herald #nzpol

Call on Chris Bishop to stop the corporate power grab in his RMA reforms: no to companies suing govts for protecting nature, no to erasing Te Tiriti, no to putting profits and property before people and the planet. greenpeace.nz/hdw6qe via @greenpeacenz

"Very difficult to evaluate disparate packages of ideas that do not appear to have any coherent strategy." “Evidence base supporting this proposal is extremely poor." “A ‘pet’ solution in search of a problem rather than evidence-based policy making.” thepress.co.nz/nz-news/360772…?