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Danzer Group illegal logging evidence

Caught on the spot in Cameroon’s rainfores an abandoned Wijma (GWZ) log illegally cut lies outside Wijma’s valid cutting permit. The log has been fraudulently marked using the code of Wijma’s valid cutting permit VC 09-04-59. Enlarge Image

Illegal logging in Cameroon

Imagine looking up and seeing a thick canopy every shade of green, rays of sunlight streaming through leaves as birds twitter and chirp. The humidity is so thick it hangs like a fog over the damp plants on the ground. Something moves in the distance, you can't see what it is, maybe a gorilla? More likely an illegal logger who has come to take it all away.

A Greenpeace campaigner watches as plywood is loaded on to a Maltese bulk carrier, The Greveno, anchored near the mouth of Lamandau River, on the west side of Tanjung Puting National Park, Kalimantan Enlarge Image

Indonesian illegal logging

The Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior discovered barges loaded with hundreds of logs soon to be exported from Indonesia and suspected to have been extracted illegally. The logs come from a region that includes the Tanjung Puting National Park -- home of dwindling numbers of orang-utans where logging is forbidden. Four activists from the UK, the Philippines, the US and Papua New Guinea displayed a banner with the message "Stop Forest Crime" on one of the log barges in central Kalimantan.

Activists build an FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) plywood blockade outside the EU social and general HQ, Brussels. Enlarge Image

EU Forest Crime Scene

The Greenpeace Forest Crimes Unit have descended on the swanky refurbished EU buildings in Brussels after undercover investigations revealed that wood used in their renovation originated from companies associated with the illegal and destructive Indonesian timber trade. We decided to get out the power tools and do a little 'renovation' of our own. Now the buildings have a fresh forest-friendly look rather than sporting illegal timber straight from the homes of tigers and orang-utans.

Gorilla seated looking at the camera, holding something in his left paw. It appears as if he is "giving the finger" to the onlooker. Enlarge Image

The latest on Danzer

In June and November 2004, Greenpeace International released two reports on the activities of the timber company Danzer Group and its African subsidiary Interholco. These documents showed that the Liberian trading partners of the Danzer Group, with headquarters in Baar (Canton of Zug, Switzerland), were involved in highly questionable activities.

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