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Dairy Conversion At John Key’s Electorate Office (c) Greenpeace / Marple

Following yesterday’s lockdown of corporate dairy expansion in the central North Island , Greenpeace continues on its mission to have New Zealand’s biggest climate crime solved….

As the sun rose over sleepy Helensville, we unfurled a truckload of Ready-Lawn around the outside of National Party leader John Key’s electorate office. Then came some pine trees, some two-dimensional cows and a smattering of stumps. Finally a billboard went up saying: “Would John solve this climate crime?”

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Would John Stop This Climate Crime

The cutting down of tens of thousands of hectares of forests to make way for mega-farms is scandalous given the current climate crisis, but it’s happening in New Zealand like we’ve never seen before. And we want to know what the National Party leader would do about it should he get into power. So we carried out this faux land conversion on his doorstep. Read more »

The CLIMATE CRIME message carved into fresh dairy pasture on newly cleared forest land

Early this morning Greenpeace activists took action to stop corporate dairy’s assault on New Zealand forests and the climate.

In the central North Island huge swathes of forest are being cleared to make way for industrial dairy mega farms.

Well before dawn this morning, in the forest near Tokoroa, several activists halted the sharp end of the logging operation by locking themselves to heavy equipment.

Meanwhile, on nearby land recently converted from forest to dairy pasture, another team have used rotary hoes to write CLIMATE CRIME in 5m-high letters into the fresh pasture.

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