Greenpeace volunteers take on climate change with spades and shovels

Our office in New Zealand has turned their hands to extreme gardening. The island nation is well known for its burgeoning agricultural industry and now the government is converting 25,000 hectares of forest into large-scale intensive dairy farms.

They are currently clearing in Tahorakuri forest on the central north island and the Ministry for Agriculture and Forestry estimates that 445,000 hectares of forest are at risk of being destroyed and converted primarily for dairy farms. So our office there got their spades out.