Slaughtering the Amazon

Our three-year investigation into Brazil’s booming cattle industry - the largest source of deforestation in the world and Brazil’s main source of CO2 emissions - has found that some of the brands that we all know and love could be implicated in the widespread deforestation of the Amazon rainforest. The investigation also uncovers how the Brazilian government is bankrolling the destruction and is undermining its own efforts to tackle the global climate crisis.

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Pig Iron Occupation, Sao Luis.

Slideshow | May 29, 2012

Activists occupy Pig Iron shipment

Image | May 26, 2012 at 17:04

The day after President Dilma failed to fully veto controversial changes to Brazil's ‘forest code’, Greenpeace activists occupy a pile of pig iron and industrial cranes in the port of Sao Luis. While a second team of climbers occupy a cranes... Read more >

Banner Action at Yum! Headquarters

Image | May 24, 2012 at 14:51

Greenpeace activists place a banner on the front of a building at Yum! Brands international headquarters in Louisville. The banner exhibited a photo of an endangered Sumatran tiger and a message reading "KFC Stop Trashing My Home." Greenpeace... Read more >

Greenpeace Water Patrol, Tullahan River

Image | May 22, 2012 at 14:45

Greenpeace Water Patrol activists don protective suits to highlight water pollution in the Tullahan River The activists unfurl a banner that reads "We Have The Right To Know What's In Our Water!" The Tullahan River is one of the dirtiest rivers... Read more >

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