Greenpeace Pictures of the Week

A dark cloud over Amazon, a billionaire flyby, and the deep arctic explored. Here are some of our favourite images from Greenpeace work around the world this week.

🇮🇪 Ireland – Greenpeace International activists flew a ‘Stop the Billionaire Takeoff’ message near Energy Transfer executive chairman Kelcy Warren’s Irish estate Castletown Cox in County Kilkenny to call attention to this Big Oil bully’s widely reported takeover of the nearby Waterford Airport, which he is expanding to allow the use of his private jet.

🥶 The Arctic – An underwater ROV (remote operated vehicle) is launched from a research vessel at Bamboo Coral Garden in the Arctic. Greenpeace is currently on expedition in the Arctic and will use underwater cameras to gather and document scientific evidence of the diversity, distribution and connectivity of fauna in Arctic deep-sea ecosystems in the mining area – with particular focus on vulnerable, rare, endemic and undescribed species – in order to trigger international, regional and national conservation protocols.

🥶 The Arctic – Images of underwater inhabitants of the Deep Arctic, captured during the current expedition. Pictured in order:
– Male sea spider, Boreonymphon is a genus of marine arthropods known as sea spiders (class Pycnogonida).
– Calanus finmarchicus is a species of copepod crustacean and an essential component of North Atlantic marine ecosystems, serving as a primary food source for fish, seabirds, and whales.
– Crinoid, a deep-sea echinoderm related to sea stars and sea urchins.

🇬🇧 U.K. – Greenpeace UK Activists transform a roundabout outside the front entrance of Syngenta’s HQ into a giant hazard symbol carrying the message “Syngenta poisons nature” with an arrow pointing directly at Syngenta’s building. Greenpeace has accused Syngenta of driving wildlife decline and threatening UK food security by making and selling pesticides that poison British wildlife. A recent Greenpeace report found that just one teaspoon of the Syngenta-made pesticide, Hallmark, was enough to kill 13 million bees.

🇹🇷 Turkey – Greenpeace Türkiye has published a report on “The hidden costs of coal in Türkiye”. Greenpeace activists showcased the facts revealed in the report and their call for a coal phase-out through a clean graffiti project in various neighbourhoods of Istanbul. Through a graffiti project where pressurised water cleansed specific sections of dirty surfaces to reveal the message, the demand “Phase out coal now!” appeared on the streets of Istanbul’s Kadıköy, Üsküdar and Rumeli Hisarı districts.

🇩🇪 Germany – Greenpeace Germany activists protest against Amazon cloud provider AWS’s unscrupulous business dealings with controversial companies at the “AWS Summit” held at the Hamburg exhibition halls, installing a sculpture of a globe controlled by servers in front of the trade fair building, on which installed screens display scenes of human rights violations and environmental destruction that could be caused in a similar manner by business partners of “Amazon Cloud Services.”

🇧🇪 Belgium – Greenpeace Belgium activists are taking action during DEME’s annual shareholders meeting in Zwijndrecht. They urge the company and their shareholders to stop investing in deep sea mining.

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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Ref: https://www.greenpeace.org/international/story/83692/greenpeace-pictures-of-the-week-2126/