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French illegal timber imports driving gorillas to extinction

Feature story | December 15, 2005 at 0:00

We don't believe gorillas and forest people should be made homeless by the European construction and furniture industries. That's why we dumped three tonnes of tropical timber in front of France's Agricultural Ministry, crushing fake gorillas, to...

Tonnes of rainforest timber dumped at the French Agricultural Ministry building

Press release | December 15, 2005 at 0:00

Greenpeace activists today dumped three tonnes of tropical timber in front of the Agricultural Ministry building to protest against the flood of illegal timber from the world's last rainforests into France and Europe. Volunteers held banners...

Greenpeace sting exposes pirate loggers

Feature story | December 22, 2005 at 0:00

How do you get a shipment of illegal logs out of the Amazon and to market in São Paolo? A team of Greenpeace activists risked their lives to go undercover to show -- for the first time -- exactly how it's done.

Kimberly-Clark: destroying ancient forests

Press release | November 3, 2005 at 0:00

Environmentalists demonstrated in over 160 Canadian and American cities today against Kimberly-Clark as part of an International Day of Action to Save the Boreal Forest (1). Kimberly-Clark, the world's largest tissue product manufacturer, is...

Working together - our partners in Paradise

Background | October 9, 2007 at 13:19

Greenpeace is working with several non-government organisations (NGOs) and local groups on the eco-forestry initiative in Lake Murray. These groups include:

Slice of paradise arrives in Japan

Feature story | May 11, 2006 at 8:25

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...

The Numbers Game

Feature story | March 28, 2006 at 0:00

Imagine a football pitch as you've seen it many times. It's a bit less than one hectare in area. Now imagine that same football pitch packed end-to-end with a pile of wood around twice the height of Mt. Everest. That's the amount of forest that...

Long wait for "immediate" action

Feature story | March 10, 2006 at 0:00

More than four years ago, East Asian governments promised to take “immediate” steps to stop illegal logging. Yet the Paradise Forests are no better off than they were on September 13, 2001 when delegates to the East Asia Forest Law Enforcement...

Saving Paradise

Feature story | March 1, 2006 at 0:00

In the remote Paradise Forests of Papua New Guinea, illegal and destructive logging continues to threaten both the local communities and the fragile ecosystem. So we have launched a major initiative to help indigenous communities establish their...

Samba in the Forest: two steps backward, one step forward.

Feature story | February 14, 2006 at 0:00

An area twice the size of Belgium has been given greater protection in the Amazon after a Presidential decree. This is around the same area of the Amazon that was lost to deforestation over the past three years.

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