Every day, people from all over the world fight to ensure a green and peaceful future for our planet. From Korea to Australia, here’s a look at some of the top Greenpeace images this week:
Vigil in honour of impacted families; citizens of Brumadinho paid homage to those affected by the collapse of the tailing dam in Córrego do Feijão district
Farmers near Brumadinho, in the city of Mário Campos, who relied on the Paraopeba River to water their crops, are left with no options since January 25th, when a tailing dam from an iron ore mine from Vale, a Brazilian mining company, collapsed, flooding with almost 13 million m³ of toxic mud the district of Córrego do Feijão, in the city of Brumadinho, in Minas Gerais state. Hundreds of people are dead or missing. The Paraopeba River was contaminated for kilometers, and thousands of people had their life impacted
Greenpeace activists protest against the removal of piglet tails and castration of male piglets without anaesthetics in front of the Ministry for Agriculture in Berlin. The environmental activists display the increasing number of pigs suffering with a large counter, which kicked-off at the beginning of the Chinese New Year of the pig. Banner reads: End Animal Suffering Ms Kloeckner!
Photos of diving near Ceduna, South Australia to discover and research the Great Southern Reef. The research activities are part of the Making Oil History Ship Tour 2018–19 with the Rainbow Warrior III
Music video by Australian music artist Vera Blue for the song ‘Like I Remember You’ filmed onboard the Rainbow Warrior during its Make Oil History Tour
Greenpeace is an independent global campaigning organisation that acts to change attitudes and behaviour, to protect and conserve the environment and to promote peace.
