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Peace Prize goes green

Peace Prize goes green

Feature story | October 8, 2004 at 0:00

Wangari Maathai has planted tens of millions of trees, opposed genetically modified organisms and titanium mining in her native Kenya, and won numerous awards for her environmental activism. She has also been beaten, harassed, and imprisoned for...

Stop Herakles Farms' project

Stop Herakles Farms' project

Action | May 16, 2013 at 15:30

A US corporation is planning to plow down a massive area of rainforest in Cameroon for a monster palm oil plantation, destroying the forest, biodiversity, and the livelihoods of local forest communities.

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Palm Oil's New Frontier

Palm Oil's New Frontier

Publication | September 5, 2012 at 7:00

The world's biggest palm oil producers and investors have been turning their attention to Africa in recent years, seeking to acquire land to grow oil palms in what some experts have dubbed the "next frontier" of industrial agricultural production.

Wangari Maathai - Africa's 'Mama Trees' passes away

Wangari Maathai - Africa's 'Mama Trees' passes away

Feature story | September 26, 2011 at 12:50 4 comments

Greenpeace is deeply saddened by news of Professor Wangari Muta Maathai's passing away. It is a sadness we are sharing with people right across the African continent, and the world.

Africa's rainforest depend on cutting out corruption

Press release | February 5, 2005 at 0:00

Greenpeace doubts that the well-intentioned pledges to protect the Congo Basin's forests made by African heads of state and French President Jacques Chirac at the Brazzaville 'forest Summit' today will be followed by actions (1).

Golden Rice

Golden Rice

Background | March 1, 2013 at 15:00

The so-called 'Golden' rice marketed by the biotech industry is a rice variety genetically engineered (GE) to produce pro-vitamin A. Its proponents say this GE rice could solve the problems of Vitamin A deficiency (which can lead to blindness) in...

Greenpeace statement on the passing of 'Mama Trees' Wangari Muta Maathai

Press release | September 26, 2011 at 12:17

Greenpeace is deeply saddened to hear of the passing away of 'Mama Trees' Wangari Muta Maathai.

Greenpeace exposes Greek link to ancient forest destruction in Liberia

Greenpeace exposes Greek link to ancient forest destruction in Liberia

Press release | April 15, 2002 at 0:00

Greenpeace activists from Greece, Germany and Switzerland exposed yet another example of ancient forest crime by boarding the vessel "MV Zini" in the port of Kalamaki, Corinth and protesting against the unloading of logs from Liberia's last...

Action on illegal logging Italy

Action on illegal logging Italy

Press release | October 11, 2005 at 0:00

Today 30 Greenpeace activists boarded a ship carrying rainforest timber at the Italian port of Livorno. Eight activists, dressed as gorillas, climbed two of the ship’s cranes to prevent its cargo from being unloaded.

Is the Dutch Government Using Illegally Produced Wood ?

Press release | April 24, 2003 at 0:00

Greenpeace activists today branded the pier in The Hague harbour, which is presently being renovated using timber the Dutch government imported from Cameroon. Twenty activists participated in this protest by painting "Wrong Wood" behind the...

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