Paradise Lost - Illegal logging in the Paradise Rainforests

Photo essay | March 1, 2009

PNG's (Papua New Guinea) remote location suits illegal and unethical logging companies. It makes it very difficult to prove workers' claims of mistreatment and poor conditions. Conditions for PNG forest communities and logging workers were mostly undocumented - until now.

In September 2008, Greenpeace went to the heart of the forest to expose the impacts of logging on its people, the environment and our global climate.

Photographs and story by Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert.

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Picking Cotton

Photo essay | June 14, 2010 at 16:17

The choice between organic and genetically engineered cotton for farmers in South India. This photo-essay has been released to accompany a case study that shows the economic stability and benefit for Indian farmers of farming cotton organically... Read more >

Sinking Sundarbans

Photo essay | March 4, 2010 at 15:16

At the mouth of the Ganges River lies the Sundarbans - 20,000 square kilometres of Unesco protected Mangrove forest stretching between India and Bangladesh. It is home to 500 endangered Bengali tigers, countless crocodiles and around 4.3 million... Read more >

Rice is Life

Photo essay | May 12, 2009 at 15:06

Rice is Life - traditional rice farming in China For farmers of Southern China, rice is more than just food - it is the very basis of their culture, however, it's a way of life that could be under threat as the spectre of genetic... Read more >

Scraplife - e-waste in Pakistan

Photo essay | February 18, 2009 at 14:39

Thousands of tons of e-waste – such as discarded PCs, mobile phones and TVs - are dumped in Africa and Asia every year. Our research shows that some of this waste is exported to Pakistan.. In the Karachi district of Lyari, hundreds of... Read more >

Following the e-waste trail

Photo essay | February 18, 2009 at 14:19

Greenpeace has been investigating the immoral and illegal e-waste dumping in developing countries since 2002. After China, India, Pakistan and Ghana, this is the story of how one very broken TV managed to avoid being tested and recycled according... Read more >

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