Oil company war profiteering, a deep arctic expedition, and a planned megafarm in Spain. Here are some images from Greenpeace work around the world over the past week.

U.K. – Greenpeace UK activists project the truth about the source of Shell’s huge profits onto their global headquarters by the Thames in London as well as next to a Shell petrol station. The projections include the messages “They Profit We Pay”, “War Profiteers”, “At Least We are Making Billions”, “War Profits HQ” and “Making a killing”.

Greece – Damaged component on board the ship Mystere, part of the Global Sumud Flotilla, found adrift by Greenpeace after the flotilla was illegally intercepted in international waters by Israeli forces as they attempted to break the long standing illegal blockade of Gaza.

Ireland – Greenpeace marine biologist and chief scientist Dr. Sandra Schöttner onboard a research vessel departing Ireland this week en route to the Arctic.

Greenpeace will deploy an ROV (Remotely Operated Vehicle) to a depth of 3000m to gather 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 expedition will be live-streamed via this page.

Senegal – Facing Down Bullies, a Greenpeace campaign push against the Energy Transfer SLAPP case against Greenpeace International and USA. Greenpeace Africa volunteers in Congo unite in solidarity, raising their voices against corruption, corporate greed, and authoritarianism. Together, we speak out and take action to defend our rights, freedoms, and environment – because power belongs to the people.

Spain- Greenpeace Spain opposes the construction of a large-scale poultry farm in San Clemente (Cuenca) that would house nearly a million hens.

Norway – Ahead of the 2026 Equinor AGM, Greenpeace Norway activists project messages on the head office in Stavanger, Norway to protest the obscene profits made since the start of the Iran war pushed up global oil prices.

Netherlands – Greenpeace Netherlands activists have disrupted the first-ever shareholder meeting of meat giant JBS in the Netherlands. At the Sheraton Hotel at Schiphol Airport, where the meeting took place, activists hung a banner dripping with fake blood that read: ‘JBS: Keep your bloody business out of Africa’. Activists entered the meeting hall, where Greenpeace Director Marieke Vellekoop personally served an information request to the JBS CEOs. This document formally signals that Greenpeace Netherlands is taking legal action against the company. The goal of the legal battle is to block JBS’s destructive expansion plans in Nigeria.

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My name is Elizabeth, a Pan-African food campaigner with Greenpeace Africa working to defend food sovereignty, ecological justice and community rights across the continent. A few months ago, Greenpeace Africa called out JBS, the world’s largest meat company, which has signed a $2.5 billion deal to import its dangerous business model to Nigeria.

That’s why last week I was in Amsterdam, where I watched as Greenpeace Netherlands and dozens of activists took over  the JBS’ first shareholder meeting since it became a Dutch company in 2025. The purpose? Deliver a Disclosure Letter, a first step toward legal action that could stop JBS’ aggressive expansion plans in their tracks.

The letter demands that JBS make public plans, impact assessments and consultations about its Nigeria expansion – and seeing JBS executives fleeing their own meeting made clear how desperate they are to avoid scrutiny. But they can’t escape our message: Keep JBS’ bloody business out of Africa. 

Outside the meeting, my colleague Ferdinand recorded a powerful message for JBS execs. They legged it before he could deliver it in person, but I hope you can take the time to watch it and share it on your own channels. Support from people like you is vital to keeping the pressure on as we move forward with our allies.

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When multinationals talk about new markets and “geographic diversification” in the Global South, what they often mean is taking control over land, water, food systems and livelihoods. Nigerians have seen first-hand the destruction that another infamous Dutch company, Shell, already wrought on their country: decades of environmental destruction, pollution and broken promises. JBS follows the same playbook: peddling empty promises, refusing transparency, and ignoring civil society.

JBS has not made public critical information about the impact their plans will have on local communities and on the land and the water they depend on – the things that matter for their immediate security – as well as globally through climate change and biodiversity loss.

But based on JBS’ track record – a business model characterised by massive emissions and linked to environmental destruction, corruption scandals and human rights violations – that expansion will come at an intolerable cost to people and planet. All to line their pockets. 

Well, not on our watch.

How we stop JBS’ expansion

JBS was warned last year, before it relocated its headquarters from Brazil to the Netherlands, that as a Dutch company it would need to play by Dutch law. Greenpeace Netherlands is now laying the foundation for a legal challenge in court to block JBS’ expansion plans. This is on the grounds that  by causing dangerous harm to climate, nature and human rights , it is in breach of Dutch law.

That is why Greenpeace Netherlands has given JBS three weeks to release the files that could help expose the true scale of the damage its expansion will cause. Under a new Dutch law, if JBS doesn’t hand them over, Greenpeace Netherlands can petition a Dutch court to compel it to do so. And in those files, dear friends, we believe is the information that would allow JBS’ dangerous $6 billion announced expansion plans , nearly half of which is earmarked for Nigeria , to be assessed and challenged in the Dutch courts.

Stopping their plans will leave space for the real solutions for nature and food sovereignty Africa needs.

And the success of a campaign like this relies on the support from people like you. 

JBS is already “active” in Nigeria

In its agreement with Nigeria’s government, JBS has pledged to build six giant meat-processing plants that would permanently alter Nigerian food production. These plans are framed as a solution to “food insecurity.” But let’s be clear about what this really is: a massive corporate takeover that threatens to lock in spiralling emissions for decades, drain water sources, and upend the food sovereignty that millions of families depend on.

After its expansion plans were splashed across Dutch media last week,  JBS told journalists that it isn’t “active” in Nigeria yet and that “they will inform shareholders when they are”.  This type of evasive statement is absolutely typical for JBS. But let’s be frank: you don’t announce a $2.5 billion deal unless you mean business. And what limited information is public gives a strong indication of just how far their plans have advanced already.

In Niger state, the government has already publicly pledged a staggering 1.2 million hectares of land – an area the size of the Gambia – for this expansion. And as the Governor of Ogun state acknowledged last year in the presence of JBS’ billionaire bosses Josley and Wesley Batista, JBS has already dispatched a “technical team to Nigeria to conduct feasibility studies” to expand into his state.

So while available evidence suggests business assessments and massive land deals are being made, actual formal and official information on what and where is unavailable. JBS cannot be allowed to continue operating in the shadows. 

To be clear, the challenges facing Nigeria’s food production are real. Shrinking grazing corridors, land degradation, and resource-driven conflict are serious, genuine threats that demand urgent action. But as civil society organisations in Nigeria have argued, the response to a system under stress should be properly supporting local farmers and communities and restoring nature. Not transferring food sovereignty away from communities who depend on this land to an unaccountable foreign corporation.

People have a right to know exactly what deals are being struck in their name. And what’s more, they should have the right to choose a different food future.

The time of Billionaire impunity is over – climate justice can’t wait

While civil society organisations in Nigeria are raising their voices to demand agency over the future of the land, Greenpeace Africa is pressing for a legal framework to ensure giant polluters can finally be held accountable for the damage they cause to the Global South, no matter where they are based in the world.

That is why, in March this year, Greenpeace Africa petitioned the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights to deliver a ruling  declaring as much. This would be a critical milestone in challenging the impunity with which corporations operate in Africa. 

Like Ferdinand said, “Make no mistake: JBS is the new Shell”. Because behind their promised development lies a business model that thrives on corruption, treating both nature and food not as fundamental rights, but as extractive resources to line the pockets of wealthy international elites.

The billionaires need to know that the era of corporate impunity on this continent is over. JBS was given 21 days to release the files and they now have 7 days left. The clock is ticking.

Elizabeth Atieno is a food campaigner at Greenpeace Africa

This blog was updated on 15 May to include a video from Greenpeace Africa about the action in the Netherlands.

Would you like to live next to a facility that slaughters 100 million chickens a year? I wouldn’t.

I’m Dániel Nyitray, a campaigner at Greenpeace International. Recently, I traveled to Croatia to join a community fighting an unimaginable threat: a massive meat factory mega project that aims to slaughter, in just one small town, four times more chickens than the entire country currently produces.

The Spirit of Sisak

In a country of fewer than 4 million people, concentrating a 100-million-chicken industry in one region is not “farming”, it’s an industrial invasion. After a 5,000-person rally in the capital, Zagreb this February, a grassroots coalition of 12 affected communities, supported by Zelena Akcija (Friends of the Earth Croatia) and Animal Friends Croatia, organized a follow-up protest in the town of Sisak.

As I stepped off a 10-hour bus ride from Budapest to Sisak, the energy was already electric. Sisak is a town of 40,000 people still bearing the scars of a major earthquake from five years ago. Despite the economic hardships the locals refused to be bribed by the empty promise of “new jobs.” We are all too familiar with the empty promises of big corporations; they are masters at promising the moon and the stars until the facility is built, only to become the worst neighbors imaginable.

The organizers held a short press conference, where the sheer number of media microphones showed the massive public interest. No wonder: they have the support of a nationwide famous singer, and Hollywood actor Goran Višnjić (ER’s Doctor Luka Kovac) sent a video message of solidarity. When the crowd started moving through the narrow streets, the sight of 3,000 people marching together was truly uplifting.

My favorite moment? A famous local musician leading the crowd in a folk song, rewritten to protest the mega-farm. When it was my turn on stage, I shared that their struggle isn’t isolated, it is part of a global network of “site battles” spanning from Mexico to Nigeria, from Spain to New Zealand. I closed with a line I practiced all morning: “Hvala, ali ne megafarmama!” (Thanks, but no mega-farm!)

If you want to raise your voice against Big Ag’s toxic greed and its destructive meat and dairy mega-projects, sign our petition here.

Big Ag’s Global Playbook of Dirty Tricks

Why are we so worried? Beyond the ethical nightmare of industrial slaughter, these projects are “Extractive Machines.” They pollute groundwater with nitrates (increasing cancer risks), pollute the soil and air, and overwhelm local infrastructure with stench, dust, and heavy traffic.

But Big Ag doesn’t play fair. They follow a “dirty playbook” similar to Big Oil. They target regions with high unemployment or weaker regulations, hoping the community is too desperate to fight back.

We see the same “Salami-Slicing” tactic everywhere: In Croatia the investor split the project into 20 separate permits to bypass a Cumulative Environmental Impact Assessment. We’ve seen this before: similar has happened for example in Spain, where a developer split a massive pig project into 25 units to dodge regulations. But, even this way, we’ll stop it!

In Mexico, my colleague Carlos reports a devastating situation in the heart of the Selva Maya forest: hundreds of industrial pig farms have invaded this beautiful rainforest, with the majority of them built without any legal permits, contaminating the biggest underground water reserve in Mexico.

Similarly, my Spanish colleague Luís has been fighting for years to stop the spread of these “animal factories.” When confronted, the factory farm industry tried to silence him with a lawsuit. While they have secured significant victories in the past, they are currently locked in a fresh battle alongside local residents in San Clemente, a little village in the forgotten, but beautiful Spanish countryside. Its new facility is designed to cram one million hens and produce over 235 million eggs a year.

Industrial meat and dairy production is even expanding its toxic model into new frontiers. JBS, the world’s largest meat empire, is planning a massive megafarm project for Nigeria. For decades, JBS has been the market leader in Brazil’s beef industry, which is the primary engine behind the destruction of the Amazon rainforest. In addition to being directly implicated in corruption scandals, JBS has through its supply chain relationships, been linked to severe human rights abuses and to cattle grazed illegally on indigenous lands. Now, to line the pockets of its billionaire shareholders, it is trying to expand this destructive model into Sub-Saharan Africa. Nigeria has already seen first-hand the devastation fossil fuel companies like Shell cause to their environment, human rights and the climate. Now, JBS is gearing up to follow. So local communities are fighting back.

Unfortunately, this list goes on and on. The pattern is undeniable: Big Ag corporations are aggressively pushing these mega-projects across the globe, completely disregarding the interests of local communities. Their goal is clear: to maximize profit at any cost, showing total indifference to the suffering of animals, the health of our food and water sources, the destruction of nature, and the lives of the people who live there.

Not Here, Not Anywhere

This isn’t just about chickens; it’s about Community vs. Extraction. Big Ag views our land as a commodity to be exploited and discarded. But the people of Sisak reminded me that our land is our heritage.

Our land is not just a commodity to be extracted, it is our heritage and the source of our life. 

But right now, Big Ag is sacrificing our home for selfish extraction. From the savannas of Nigeria to the villages of rural Europe, corporate mega-projects are bulldozing local livelihoods to feed an industrial machine that only serves a few. We are taking a stand to protect our land, our culture, and our right to a better world for future generations.

Not here, not anywhere.

Help us stop Big Ag’s expansion, sign our petition.

Dániel Nyitray is Global Campaign Lead for Big Ag at Greenpeace International based in Hungary.