This week in Greenpeace pictures

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Aug 25, 2017 · 3 min read

Every day, people from all over the world fight to ensure a green and peaceful future for our planet. From the Arctic to Indonesia, here’s a look at some of the top Greenpeace images this week

Arctic Sunrise protests Arctic oil drilling in Barents Sea

4 people in kayaks have reached Statoil’s rig, the Songa Enabler. They are bringing a huge globe with messages from people around the world urging the Norwegian government to end its Arctic oil expansion. The Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise is in the Norwegian Arctic to document, expose and challenge the Norwegian government and Statoil’s aggressive search for new oil in the Barents Sea. Statoil has just started their drilling operations at the Korpfjell site using the rig called Songa Enabler. The Arctic Sunrise is carrying activists from all over the world, who are ambassadors for the People Versus Arctic Oil movement
The Greenpeace Volunteers Group Cologne protests with a bicycle tour, called Tour en Rouge from Cologne to RWE power plant Niederaussem against brown coal mining at Hambach near Cologne. The bicycle tour is part of a protest series — the climate camp at the lignite mining ground belonging to the energy concern RWE. In red colour clothes and with red banners they set a red line against the exploration and usage of fossil fuel energy. The banners and flags read: “Future instead of lignite!” and “1,5° is the limit! Stop global warming!”
Activists occupy a JP Morgan Chase location and create an art installation inside the branch, using the names of 150,000 people who have signed a petition calling on Chase to stop financing tar sands pipelines

Projection for transport turnaround onto German Chancellery in Berlin

Greenpeace activists demonstrate for a transport turnaround with a projection onto the German Chancellery. The environmental activists project the question: ”Ms. Merkel, for how much longer?” and a globe covered in car exhaust onto the chancellery

Solar eclipse 2017 in Washington D.C.

People watch the solar eclipse in Washington, USA
Thirty Greenpeace volunteers bring a parade of a dozen giant tropical sea creatures to BP’s head office in London, to protest their plans to drill for oil near the Amazon Reef. The procession swam down the Mall, around Trafalgar Square and then Piccadilly to St James’s Square, where the oil company is based. They delivered a petition with over a million signatures asking BP not to drill near the reef, along with a map to show the company where the reef is

Orangutans at BOS Nyaru Menteng Orangutan Rescue Center in Indonesia

A documentation of orangutan that are living in the rehabilitation center at Borneo Orangutan Survival (BOS) Foundation in Nyaru Menteng, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia

VICTORY!: Action against Nickleodeon theme park in Palawan

Viacom International Media Network, owner of the Nickelodeon brand, decided to finally cut ties with Coral World Park for the proposed underwater theme park in Coron, Palawan!

Arctic Sunrise protests in the Barents sea

The Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise is in the Norwegian Arctic to document, expose and challenge the Norwegian government and Statoil’s aggressive search for new oil in the Barents Sea. The Arctic Sunrise is carrying activists from all over the world, who are ambassadors for the People Versus Arctic Oil movement

And from the Archives…

Rice farmers photography project in China, Jan 2005
Shy mollymawk, during trawling documentation in Pacific Ocean, June 2004
Manta Ray off the Coast of Nusa Penida, July 2014

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