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Field visit to Atikamekw: the devastation of the logging industry has lasted too long

Blog entry by Nicolas Mainville | September 26, 2014 2 comments

Chief Christian Awashish notices the devastation of the logging on his ancestral land September 8, 2014 marks a historic day for Quebec, it’s the day when, for the first time in recent history, an indigenous nation has formally ...

Ontario nature shines a spotlight on caribou forest

Blog entry by Shane Moffatt, Forest Campaigner | September 15, 2014

Last week our friends over at Ontario Nature released a short video to inform the public of a vital piece of caribou habitat threatened by Resolute Forest Products. This pristine area, known as the St. Raphael Signature Site and...

FSC makes big strides

Blog entry by Judy Rodrigues | September 12, 2014

This week, Greenpeace has been squirreled away in meetings with members of the FSC's General Assembly, the membership body that makes decisions about how FSC is governed. To be frank, we've been pretty critical of FSC over the last few...

Greenpeace and Kimberly-Clark celebrate “wood” anniversary

Blog entry by Rolf Skar | August 5, 2014

It’s fitting that fifth year celebrations are known as “wood” anniversaries since that’s largely what this one is about. On August 5 th , Kimberly-Clark and Greenpeace will mark five years of the company’s new fiber buying policy ...

FSC voluntary forest certification in deep crisis

Blog entry by Tatiana Khakimulina | August 4, 2014

I have worked at Greenpeace Russia as a forest engineer for the past two years, focusing on monitoring logging activities by FSC certificate holders in the Boreal forest zone. I strongly believe that the FSC system is now in its...

Resolute’s transparency crisis over its operations in Canada’s forests

Blog entry by Nicolas Mainville | June 12, 2014

This week, The Nation (an aboriginal news magazine for the Cree and James Bay) released an in-depth exposé on Resolute’s ‘face-off’ over its suspended  Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certificates , the benchmark for responsible...

"Ignoring boreal forests could speed up global warming"

Blog entry by Shane Moffatt, Forest Campaigner | June 5, 2014

An interesting article by Paul Sutherland popped up  on Mongabay yesterday , discussing a new report in  Conversation Letters  that global temperatures may start to increase even faster if more is not done to protect our boreal forests...

Are you being SLAPPed? How corporations and governments try to silence public debate

Blog entry by Karianne Bruning, Legal Coordinator | May 23, 2014

The lawyers at Greenpeace International are a creative, dedicated team who tackle a wide range of duties. Part of our work is preparing legal strategies and defence for cases against Greenpeace International. We also monitor legal...

Greenpeace at Resolute’s AGM: will Richard Garneau be part of the solution?

Blog entry by Nicolas Mainville | May 23, 2014

We are at the Annual General Meeting of Resolute Forest Products, held for the first time in Saint-Félicien, in the heart of Quebec’s forest industry. We’re asking Resolute CEO Richard Garneau today if he will be part of the...

First hand account of the activists’ arrest in Mahan

Blog entry by Vivek Goyal | May 9, 2014 1 comment

I asked them why were they here, at this hour? They said, "You will find out soon." We woke-up to the sound of loud knocking on our door. It took us a few minutes to realize what was happening. It was around 12.00 at night. Ten...

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