The Australian Labor government has finally committed to bring in laws to ban illegal and destructive timber coming into Australia. After ten years of campaigning, unscrupulous logging companies will get the message loud and clear.

The biggest names from Australia’s timber industry joined leading social justice and environment groups today to welcome the federal government’s announcement of new laws to ban illegal timber imports.

Today, six Greenpeace activists dressed as orang-utans swung by Nestlé’s headquarters. They urged the global food giant to stop using palm oil from destroyed rainforests. Demand for palm oil is destroying Indonesia’s rainforests. It threatens...

Greenpeace activists dropped from the ceiling and unfurled two large banners directly over the heads of Nestlé shareholders today. They were at the multinational’s annual general meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland. Their aim: to get shareholders to...