Who are we?

The Organisations behind Be The Change

Oxfam:

Oxfam believes that in a world rich in resources, poverty is an injustice that needs to be addressed.  

We work with poor communities around the world, linking local-level action with international campaigns for basic rights to create a safer, fairer and more sustainable world.

Oxfam New Zealand works in the Pacific, Asia and Africa supporting people to access safe water and sanitation, to build sustainable livelihoods, to provide education and healthcare for their children, to adapt to the effects of climate change and to live free from persecution and violence.

We are there responding rapidly to emergencies caused by conflict and natural disasters, and helping keep survivors alive by supplying clean water and life-saving essentials.  Then we stay for the long-term to ensure communities can rebuild and break the cycle of poverty that made them vulnerable in the first place.

Oxfam's programmes around the world are already witnessing the serious impacts of climate change as demonstrated by worse food and water shortages, more health epidemics, and devastated agricultural livelihoods.  Climate change threatens to undermine decades of poverty alleviation and human development by NGOs such as Oxfam.  

Oxfam New Zealand is a member of Oxfam International.

Greenpeace NZ

Greenpeace stands for positive change through action. We defend the natural world and promote peace.

As a global organisation, Greenpeace focuses on the most crucial worldwide threats to our planet's biodiversity and environment.

We investigate, expose and confront environmental abuse by governments and corporations around the world.

We champion environmentally responsible and socially just solutions, including scientific and technological innovation.

We promote open, informed debate about society's environmental choices.

We use high-profile, non-violent direct action, research, lobbying, and quiet diplomacy to pursue our goals and raise the level and quality of public debate as the catalyst for change.

Greenpeace is an independent, not-for-profit organisation

The Greenpeace International office is based in the Netherlands. Greenpeace has over 2.6 million supporters worldwide and a presence in 41 regions and nations across Europe, the Americas, Asia and the Pacific.

Forest & Bird
Forest & Bird (The Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society of New Zealand) is New Zealand's largest national conservation organisation.

Forest & Bird is active on a wide range of conservation and environmental issues working to preserve and protect the native plants and animals and natural features of New Zealand. These include the protection of native forests, tussock grasslands, wetlands, coastlines and marine ecosystems, energy and resource conservation, sustainable fisheries and sustainable land management. Forest & Bird is also involved in South Pacific rainforest conservation work and is working to ensure the protection of Antarctica from environmental damage.

Forest and Bird's strength as an organisation comes from its thousands of members in over 50 branches throughout the country.  Much of the on-the-ground conservation work is done by volunteer branch members who run local campaigns and comprehensive conservation programmes in their regions.

A team of professional conservation staff with scientific, resource management and advocacy skills, based in Wellington, Auckland, Nelson, Christchurch and Dunedin, are involved in advocacy and lobbying work at all levels of local and central government.

Forest & Bird is an NGO and therefore relies on the support and generosity of the public through membership subscriptions, donations and bequests for its income to fund its conservation work.

Forest & Bird is the New Zealand partner of BirdLife International and works with a range of NGOs both within New Zealand, the Pacific and around the world on a wide range of conservation issues.