Greenpeace Pictures of the Week

Protesting a megafarm development in northeast Croatia, calls for economic and climate justice in Thailand, and calls for forest protection in Poland, here are a few of our favourite images from Greenpeace work around the world this week. © Maja Bota Strbe / Greenpeace Croatia – 12 Greenpeace activists have scaled three barns at a controversial megafarm development in northeast Croatia, painting a 500m2 slogan reading ‘Stop This Shit’ in protest at the threat that animal waste from the facility poses to a nearby biosphere reserve. © Patipat Janthong / Greenpeace Thailand – During the IMF-World Bank Group Annual Meetings 2026 (Oct 12–18) in Bangkok, Greenpeace Thailand activists called for economic and climate justice. Action took place in Bangkok’s business district with signs and shirts demanding ‘Tax The Super Rich,” alongside joining a public coalition protest urging international financial institutions and governments to prioritise people and the planet over profit. While communities suffer from climate crisis impacts, fossil fuel expansion, and rising economic inequality, major polluters and the wealthiest elite continue to profit from an unfair financial system. Greenpeace urges the IMF to move away from austerity policies and instead support taxing the super-rich and big polluters’ windfall profits, while advocating for a fair global tax system via the UN Tax Convention. © Max Zielinski / Greenpeace Poland – On October 15, 2026, on the anniversary of the Polish parliamentary election, a huge banner was hung on the building opposite the Civic Platform headquarters. It depicts Prime Minister Donald Tusk holding a saw alongside the text “Where are those saw-free forests?”. Greenpeace activists wanted to remind the Prime Minister of his promise to protect 20% of the most valuable forests from logging. To date, only a quarter of that promise has been fulfilled. © Greenpeace / Shayne Robinson South Africa – Greenpeace Africa’s NVDA (Non-Violent Direct Action) during the African Energy Week, in Cape Town, South Africa. Following reports that fossil fuel companies had created their own wine labelled ‘Drill Baby Drill’, Greenpeace Africa brought their own drinks to the party with a giant bottle named ‘Pay Baby Pay’. The conference is a forum where oil and gas companies and interests gather to discuss the promotion of fossil fuel investments instead of alternatives and renewable energy. © Daniel Müller / Greenpeace Germany – Greenpeace activists protest against the destruction of ecologically valuable forests outside the Ikea store in Hamburg-Altona. Two oversized figures, styled after the stick figures from Ikea’s assembly instructions, are positioned with saws as if they were cutting down the trees in front of the store. At the same time, Greenpeace climbers have unfurled a banner on the furniture store’s facade reading “Ikea is destroying protected areas.” A Greenpeace report confirms that wood from a protected Natura 2000 site in the Romanian Carpathians is being processed for the world’s largest furniture retailer. Due to its high ecological value, the forest should be strictly protected from deforestation in the future. © Johanna de Tessières / Greenpeace Belgium – Activists from 17 countries together with the PeopleVsGas coalition supported by Greenpeace Belgium and other organisations protest in Brussels. They demand a short term emergency plan to shield people from increasing energy costs, and to establish a clear roadmap for Europe to phase out fossil gas by 2035. European policymakers are set to take crucial decisions for the bloc’s energy future. 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. To see more Greenpeace photos and videos, please visit our Media Library .