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More than 30 Greenpeace volunteers work with local people constructing dams in peatland canals in recently cleared forest. This prevents the peatland from drying out and releasing huge amounts of carbon dioxide. Enlarge image

Indonesian forest destruction dammed

Our volunteers and local forest communities have halted swamp forest destruction in Sumatra, Indonesia, by damming five canals. The damming stops the peatland from drying out and releasing huge amounts of carbon dioxide.

Greenpeace activists abseiled off the top of the Crowne Plaza hotel in Port Moresby, where delegates were gathering for the start of the 42nd International Tropical Timber Organization's (ITTO) committee meeting. The activists unfurled a banner which read "ITTO Stop Forest Destruction". Unless something is done now to stop wholesale forest destruction there may be nothing left to save. Enlarge image

An urgent message from PNG forests

Delegates of the International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO) received a surprise message today. Greenpeace activists unfurled a huge banner reading "ITTO Stop Forest Destruction" outside their hotel.

Precious merbau timber is imported into China. Enlarge image

Merbau's last stand

Consumer demand for luxury flooring and furniture is driving a rare tree species to commercial extinction. And it will take more than the Australian government's global illegal logging fund to save it.

Aerial view of the Amazon forest. Enlarge image

Amazon win: huge soya port closes

The Brazilian Environmental Agency has closed a huge soya port in the Amazon rainforest until a proper environmental impact assessment is undertaken. This is a huge win for the Amazon and its people because the port, owned by US grain trading giant Cargill, is responsible for shipping massive quantities of soya arriving from deforested areas of the region’s rainforest.

Activists declare a forest crime scene outside a furniture retail outlet in Sydney. Enlarge image

Illegal timber found on the Australian market

The Paradise Forests of Papua New Guinea and Indonesia’s Papua are being destroyed through illegal and destructively logged timber, which is flooding the Australian market.

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.

In Indonesia, Greenpeace activists unfurl banners reading, "Stop ancient forest destruction" in front of the MV Ardhianto. The ship is carrying 6000 cubic metres of plywood to Japan and Korea. Enlarge image

Companies trashing Paradise Forests exposed

Over the next couple of days a massive 9,000 cubic metres of plywood will be loaded onto two ships bound for markets in Asia and the US. Activists in inflatables unfurled banners saying, “Stop ancient forest destruction” in Indonesian, Japanese and English in front of the ship MV Ardhianto, which is carrying 6,000 cubic metres of plywood to Japan and Korea. The remaining 3,000 cubic metres are heading to the US.

These Solomon Island protesters want protection for their forest resources. Enlarge image

Forest march to stop the loggers

It was the biggest protest ever held in Solomon Islands over illegal logging. Under a heavy downpour, 500 women, men and children came from the threatened forest wards of East and Central Bauro region. Gripping anti-logging banners, they marched to the town of Kirakira to present their petition demanding a halt to logging in two disputed land areas.

Forest Campaigner Nathan Argent chained to a palette of illegal rainforest plywood in London Enlarge image

Illegal logging destroys the world's last rainforests

The world's last rainforests are being destroyed through illegal and destructively logged timber, which is flooding markets throughout the world such as Australia and the UK.

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