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Celebrating 10 years of saving the Amazon Rainforest

Climate meeting in Bonn: save the forests, but don't cheapen carbon

If we're to have a hope of saving our planet from runaway climate change, we need to make it expensive for industry to emit carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gasses, and we need to make it profitable for countries like Brazil, Indonesia, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to preserve their tropical rainforests. Sounds angelically simple, but we need real leadership at the Bonn climate conference to get the devil out of the details.

Cattle ranching biggest driver of Amazon deforestation

At the World Social Forum in Belém in the heart of the Amazon we’ve released evidence confirming cattle ranching to be the biggest driver of Amazon deforestation. Greenpeace Brazil has produced a series of maps which show in greater detail than ever before the direct links between cattle ranching and forest destruction in the Amazon state of Mato Grosso.

Putting soya impacts on the map

Monitoring the effects of deforestation on the Amazon is a difficult undertaking. The Amazon is huge and it's extremely difficult to keep tabs on what's happening in the remote fringes of the rainforest. News of illegal logging and the spread of soya plantations can take a long time – if ever - to reach the authorities.

Save the Planet: now… or NOW

The Arctic Sunrise has embarked on a tour of Brazil to warn against the impacts of climate change and highlight the important role Brazil can play in fighting it.

Hackers help destroy the Amazon rainforest

High-tech smuggling operations may not be what you'd normally associate with the ongoing clearance of the Amazon rainforest, but logging companies intent on plundering it for timber have been using hackers to break into the Brazilian government's sophisticated tracking system and fiddle the records.

Landmark Amazon soya moratorium extended

We've received good news about the ongoing campaign to protect the Amazon rainforest: the landmark two-year-old "soya moratorium", brought about after we demonstrated that the rainforest was being cleared to make way for soya farming, has been extended for another year.

Amazon destruction for Soya halted - for now

Despite a recent increase in deforestation in the Amazon, there is a glimmer of hope that the destruction can be halted.

Amazon deforestation on the rise again

After three years of declining Amazon deforestation, rates of loss have now doubled to new record levels. Increased demand for products like soya and beef is driving the destruction.