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Clean Energy Now: 60 staff and volunteers of Greenpeace Africa create a human banner to mark 100 days until the UN Climate Summit in Copenhagen.

Kumi Naidoo

During the opening of its first office in the continent, Amadou Kanoute, Executive Director Greenpeace Africa stresses Africa is in a position to leapfrog dirty development and become a leader in helping to avert catastrophic climate change and protect the natural environment.

Salonga National Park Aerial - Democratic Republic of the Congo. A river flows through the Salonga National Park, located in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the Congo River basin. It is Africa's largest tropical rainforest reserve. With its 33.350 km2, the park is larger then Belgium. The park's wildlife is under threat from large scale illegal poaching operations. Logging is expanding in the rainforest southwest of the park's boundaries.

Greenpeace activist displays a banner at the European HQ of the World Bank in Paris. 40 million people depend on the DRC's rainforest. Few benefit from logging. The World Bank admits that in the last three years, none of the forest area taxes paid by companies have reached forest communities. Published as the World Bank Report, it concludes that efforts by the Bank to control the logging industry are failing while the rainforest is being sold off under the illusion that logging alleviates poverty.

A woman from a forest dependant community gathers firewood. Beyond environmental impacts, logging in this region exacerbates poverty and leads to social conflicts.

Greenpeace activists protest outside the opening of the France Afrique Summit in Cannes, a conference of heads of state of France and Africa. The activists climbed a crane and hung a banner reading "Non-pillage des Forêts Africaines," which translates to English as "Don't Plunder Africa's Forests." Greenpeace is calling on Chirac and leaders of other donor countries to stop promoting industrial logging in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Beyond environmental impacts, logging in this region exacerbates poverty and leads to social conflicts.

Greenpeace activists protest outside the opening of the France Afrique Summit in Cannes, a conference of heads of state from France and Africa. Following today's protests, President Chirac announced his support to maintain the moratorium on industrial logging in the Democratic Republic of Congo until the DRC government is able to fully manage its forests. Beyond environmental impacts, logging in this region exacerbates poverty and leads to social conflicts.

Police at a Greenpeace protest at the Admiralty Arch wing of the Cabinet Office in London. Greenpeace were protesting the use of illegally logged rainforest timber in the building's refurbishment.

Greenpeace board the cargo ship Happy Ranger.

Humpback whale and calf off the coast of Tonga

Humpback whale off the coast of Tonga

Over 50 Greenpeace activists from the Climate Defenders Camp on the Kampar Peninsula take action against deforestation

Over 50 Greenpeace activists from the Climate Defenders Camp on the Kampar Peninsula take action against deforestation.

Over 50 Greenpeace activists from the Climate Defenders Camp on the Kampar Peninsula take action against deforestation - unfurling a 20 x 30 meter banner in a freshly destroyed area of rainforest that read ‘Obama you can stop this’, urging him to take strong leadership and work closely with other Heads of State to help avert a climate crisis by ending global deforestation, responsible for about a fifth of global greenhouse gas emissions.

Over 50 Greenpeace activists from the Climate Defenders Camp on the Kampar Peninsula take action against deforestation - unfurling a 20 x 30 meter banner in a freshly destroyed area of rainforest that read ‘Obama you can stop this’, urging him to take strong leadership and work closely with other Heads of State to help avert a climate crisis by ending global deforestation, responsible for about a fifth of global greenhouse gas emissions.

Kumi Naidoo, Executive Director of Greenpeace International.

Activists wearing “Tax” hats unveiled the whale with supporting banners reading: "Amakudai", "waste of tax", "useless public interest corporation”.