The Green Party is urging New Zealanders to cut links to ANZ unless the banking group stops supporting a huge tropical rainforests logging company.

The first protest ran from 8am to 9.30am today (Monday) outside the ANZ branch in lower Lambton Quay, Wellington, and featured tropical trees, a “grim reaper”, an “orangutan”, bankers with giant chainsaws and “cheques” handed out to the public. The site was chosen as it has adjacent ANZ and National Bank branches; both New Zealand banks are owned by the ANZ Banking Group based in Australia.

Greens Co-Leader Russel Norman says the party is starting a campaign outside selected ANZ branches with colourful protests highlighting the banking corporation’s links to Rimbunan Hijau and other firms destroying the last “paradise forests” of South East Asia and the Pacific.

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