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US Pharmacy Giant Rite Aid Is Destroying Canada’s Boreal Forest

Blog entry by Amy Moas | July 21, 2015

Earlier this year, Greenpeace  initiated a public campaign spotliighting  Rite Aid, the third largest drugstore chain in the United States. By not properly managing where its paper comes from, the company has been making the wrong...

Ban on logging: Cree First Nation more committed than ever to protect their last...

Blog entry by Nicolas Mainville | July 14, 2015

Cree Nation of Waswanipi and Greenpeace erected a blocade at the edge of the Broadback Valley in 2010, calling for a full protection of this last intact forest In an unprecedented move yesterday, the Cree First Nation of Waswanipi ...

Podcast: India cracking down on environmentalists & what is a climate sink?

Blog entry by Mary Ambrose | July 1, 2015

The first story in this podcast is complicated. Really complicated. But I'm going to keep it simple. It starts in India. At the moment, many non governmental organizations (NGOs) are  being leaned on by the Indian Ministry of Home...

Kwakwaka’wakw & Greenpeace: An Inevitable Alliance

Blog entry by Julia McIntyre-Smith with Eduardo Sousa | June 12, 2015

Indigenous peoples are bound to the land; a connection created when our ancestors first walked the earth has been passed down from generation to generation. The desire to protect Mother Earth is innate within many indigenous peoples-...

Who's to blame? Time to pull out the mirror Resolute

Blog entry by Richard Brooks | June 9, 2015

Resolute Forest Product ’s  announced today the temporary closure of two paper machines at its Dolbeau and Alma paper mills in Quebec. The company management chose to blame Greenpeace for these closures. I think that is...

APRIL, pulp and paper giant ends its deforestation

Blog entry by rto | June 4, 2015

Indonesian paper giant APRIL just agreed to stop pulping the rainforest. With so many companies trying to put deforestation behind them, will Indonesia's President Jokowi follow their lead? We've achieved so much together. ...

What did 10,000 tweets say to Resolute Forest Products?

Blog entry by Richard Brooks | May 29, 2015

Five Greenpeace activists trekked to Augusta, Georgia, USA from several corners of North America to deliver some simple messages to the senior management and board of Resolute Forest Products, Canada’s largest logging company at their...

Chief Forester of Quebec issues alarming report on future of caribou

Blog entry by Nicolas Mainville | May 29, 2015

Quebec’s Chief Forester, an independent body appointed by the government to provide oversight and direction to the province’s forestry industry, released an alarming report last week showing that the future of woodland caribou in...

Join our Thunderclap: Say it Loud for Real Solutions in the Boreal Forest

Blog entry by Marie Moucarry | May 28, 2015

So far, over 56,000 people from all over the world have joined our #StandForForests movement and told Canada’s largest logging company Resolute Forest Products that they want the Boreal Forest to be better protected, respected and...

Return to Sonora: TimberWest in the Great Bear Rainforest

Blog entry by Eduardo Sousa | May 21, 2015

It was exactly 2 years ago today that I published a   blog on Sonora Island   - the southernmost end of the Great Bear Rainforest, within the traditional territories of Kwakwaka'wakw and Coast Salish peoples. In that blog I...

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