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May 06

The first eco-timber shipment. Enlarge image

Our legacy in Lake Murray

After three months, our Global Forest Rescue Station (GFRS) in remote Papua New Guinea has come to an end. The GFRS was established when Lake Murray tribes invited Greenpeace to help protect their ancient forest. Volunteers from around the world took up the invitation, and went to live and work alongside the Kuni, Begwa and Pari tribes.

Plywood from the Paradise Forests is unloaded in Yokohama Enlarge image

Slice of Paradise arrives in Japan

First we intercepted the MV Ardhianto when it was loading a thousand cubic metres of destructively logged plywood in Sorong harbour, Papua. Today, as the ship prepared to unload a slice of the Paradise Forests in Yokohama harbour, Japan, our activists were there to again demand a ban on the trade in illegal timber.

Anne Kajir, environmental award winner and lawyer, fights for the Paradise Forests. Enlarge image

Award winner says, "Stop plundering my forest"

Many Australians would be shocked to learn that their new timber deck or outdoor furniture could well be made with stolen timber from some of the last remaining rainforests on the planet. Young lawyer, Anne Kajir, who has just won a Goldman Award, the world’s top grassroots environment prize, wants us to know just that.

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