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Great Bear Rainforest

Background | September 13, 2011 at 9:35

Ten years of difficult, dangerous and at times heartbreaking work delivers an agreement that put one third of Canada’s Great Bear Rainforest under full protection and binds logging companies to a strict ecosystem based management system for the rest.

Intact Forest Landscapes

Publication | June 29, 2011 at 10:37

Greenpeace released a new report compiling the latest science about the critical importance of intact forests and the devastating effect of pushing roads through them or logging them. The report goes further to show how to protect the intact...

Great Bear Rainforest

Feature story | April 4, 2013 at 14:00

How did we go from certain destruction to forest protection in Canada's Great Bear Rainforest? Follow the journey with our interactive Forest Solutions story.

Crisis for FSC™ in the Congo Basin?

Publication | May 25, 2011 at 17:23

Greenpeace and many other Forest Stewardship Council™ (FSC™) members and stakeholders are seriously concerned that an increasing number of FSC certificates are being granted around the world to logging companies that do not meet the international...

Logging in the Amazon

Background | November 21, 2005 at 14:27

Illegal and predatory logging plays a central role in the destruction of the Amazon. It is now generally accepted that illegal logging is the norm, rather than the exception in the Brazilian Amazon. Between 60 and 80 percent of all logging in the...

The World Bank and Congo deforestation

Feature story | August 30, 2007 at 0:00

Back in April, at the World Bank's spring meeting, there was much talk about the plight of the Congo rainforest. We'd just published a big report detailing how in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) logging titles were being granted in breach...

Alaskan rainforest faces decimation

Feature story | September 17, 2003 at 0:00

We've sent the largest ship in our fleet, the MV Esperanza, to Southeast Alaska to expose the impacts of industrial logging on the the Tongass National Forest (TNF), the largest forest in the US and one of the most diverse and irreplaceable...

Activists trapped by loggers

Feature story | October 18, 2007 at 0:00

Eight Greenpeace activists trapped in a Brazilian environmental protection agency (Ibama) office, for nearly two days, have finally managed to escape. Our team was forced to seek refuge in the Ibama Amazon base, after loggers blocked them from...

Finnish forestry: Destroying forests, destroying livelihoods.

Publication | September 8, 2003 at 0:00

Even in a wealthy, forest rich nation like Finland, industrial logging is jeopardising the survival of the country's last ancient or old-growth forests. These forests are crucial for maintaining biodiversity and the traditional livelihoods of the...

EU's new timber laws face early test

Blog entry by Raoul Monsembula | April 11, 2013

Last month Greenpeace Africa released a report on how the illegal logging sector in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is in a state of organised chaos, with numerous companies flouting regulations and threatening the country’s...

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