A stranded whale, incomplete infrastructure, and a call for peace. Here are a few of our favourite images from Greenpeace work around the world this week.

USA – As another perilous threat to Iran looms from behind White House gates, Greenpeace USA activists took a banner to the Capitol calling for the immediate removal of President Donald Trump for war crimes. NO WAR calls are coming from across the nation while Trump schemes up more ways to steal oil under the guise of a senseless war that would not only put American’s lives at risk, but is already threatening the livelihood of all.

Brazil – The 22nd edition of the Free Land Camp (ATL 2026) takes place from April 5 to 11 in Brasília. As Brazil’s largest Indigenous mobilisation, this year’s gathering is held under the theme “Our future is not for sale: we are the answer,” bringing together thousands of Indigenous leaders from across the country to discuss land demarcation, confront the climate crisis, and defend democracy, while also fostering cultural exchange among hundreds of Indigenous peoples.

Argentina – In the hours leading up to a debate in the Chamber of Deputies, Greenpeace Andino activists staged a peaceful protest outside the National Congress in Buenos Aires to demand that the bill seeking to amend the current Glacier Law not moved forward, as it puts the country’s main freshwater reserves at risk. The proposal seeks to open unique glacial areas to mining.

Germany – Aerial footage shows a humpback whale stranded close to the Island Poel in the Baltic Sea off Germany. Greenpeace is on the ground and supporting the ongoing efforts to help the whale to safety.

India – Through creative intervention themed around the Scream, where citizens scream their frustrations about wasteful infrastructure projects in Bangalore, the incomplete pillars at R. R. Nagar, Bangalore were highlighted by putting up stickers and banners criticising these unfinished projects.

Poland – Polish coal mines illegally leak enormous amounts of climate-killing methane. Their total climate impact is already larger than the EU’s single largest climate killer, Belchatow power plant. Greenpeace activists have scaled the 54 meter high shaft of the Knurów-Szczygłowice coal mine to protest against these illegal activities. The government of PM Donald Tusk should fully implement the EU methane regulation in order to stop the leakage.

The banner reads “Dangerous Methane is leaking from here.”

South Africa – Greenpeace Africa activists join the 2026 Human Rights Festival at Conhill, Johannesburg.

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Beirut, Lebanon, 8 April – I am writing this with a heavy heart and trembling hands, still processing what my family, my team, and my country lived through today.

This morning, my daughter was sitting at her desk, headphones on, focused on an online exam. Then, without warning, the windows rattled and the sound of bombing tore through the air. Within seconds, her screen filled with the terrified faces of her classmates, students and teacher alike – some crying, some running, some frozen in shock, each of them feeling the strikes land near their homes. It broke my heart to see her dissolve into tears, terrified and disoriented, her world turned upside down in a matter of seconds.

What was happening was a massacre.

At least 254 civilians have been killed and 1,165 others wounded across Lebanon this day. The Israeli military carried out over 100 air strikes in just 10 minutes, hitting Beirut, Mount Lebanon, Saida, the South, and the Bekaa simultaneously, without warning. Beirut hospitals are inundated. In a country of fewer than five million people, 254 killed and over 1,165 injured in a single afternoon is catastrophic. These are families. These are defenceless kids and parents.

This took place just hours after a US-Iran ceasefire was announced, a moment of fragile hope that Israel immediately, deliberately shattered by declaring Lebanon excluded from any truce.

I am relieved to confirm that all Greenpeace MENA team members and their families are safe. We have been in contact with every colleague throughout the day.

However, I want to be honest with you: the threat has never felt closer. Strikes hit densely populated civilian neighbourhoods across Beirut, not just the southern suburbs, but central districts, coastal areas, and communities where our team members live. There is widespread panic, fear, and deep frustration across Lebanon tonight. The government has announced tomorrow, April 9th, as a national day of mourning.

Sadly, what we are seeing is the Gaza doctrine expanding to Lebanon: systematic, deliberate, and total destruction of civilian life and infrastructure, carried out with complete impunity.

Since March 2nd the Israeli military has killed over 1,500 people in Lebanon and displaced more than 1.2 million people. Civilian infrastructure is being destroyed, and the Israeli government now occupies a large part of Southern Lebanon. And today, the single deadliest assault since this war began was carried out in the shadow of a ceasefire.  

We fear, and we must say this plainly: this could be the beginning of another genocide in our region. After decades of Israeli occupation, war crimes, ethnic cleansing, settlement expansion, the genocide in Gaza, and now massacres and systematic destruction of Lebanon, all while the world watches in silence, the pattern is undeniable. International law is not being bent. It is being broken, openly, daily, with no consequences.

This impunity is the problem. And impunity will not end without action.

In the midst of this darkness, I want to take a moment to express my deep pride and gratitude that Greenpeace’s Arctic Sunrise ship is joining the Global Sumud Flotilla to provide logistical support. This is a powerful act of solidarity, a bold, visible statement that our movement stands with the people of this region who have endured decades of injustice and occupation. It matters enormously, and I am proud that Greenpeace has the courage to stand on the right side of history.

And yet, today more than ever, I believe these brave acts of solidarity, as vital and meaningful as they are, are not sufficient on their own. The scale of what is happening demands more. 

We must demand world governments move from  silent complicity or words of condemnation towards real accountability. They must hold the Israeli government accountable under international law, impose arms embargoes and meaningful sanctions that create genuine political and economic consequences.

The people in Lebanon and the Middle East deserve an immediate and permanent ceasefire and a just peace grounded in international humanitarian law.

I hope this nightmare ends soon, but I know it will only end when governments of the world do more than watch from the sidelines. 

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