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Rainforest timber stopped from leaving Paradise

Deforestation

Forest destruction accounts for around 20% of global greenhouse gas emissions. That's more than the world's entire transport sector.

21 FEBRUARY 2006 - Kenton, a man in the Catfish clan hunts with bow and arrow in the forest on the banks of Lake Murray. Greenpeace today launched a major initiative to help protect the 'Paradise Forests' - by unveiling its Global Forest Rescue Station in a remote part of Papua New Guinea. Enlarge Image

Protect forests

There are several solutions to rampant forest destruction. When combined, they have the power to save the remaining Paradise Forests.

Coal is the worst climate offender Enlarge Image

Stop climate change

The world's leaders meet at the end of 2009 in Copenhagen to determine the fate of the climate. They could set us on the path to a deep emissions cuts or they could lock the planet into catastrophic, irreversible climate change.

Nomadic Penan leader Along Sega and his grandchild examine a tree stump near their village in the Sungai Nyakit area of the Sarawak rainforest in Malaysia. He is 60, a father of nine and grandfather of 30. Enlarge Image

Protect ancient forests

Forest destruction produces about one fifth of global greenhouse gas emissions, more than that emitted from all the cars, planes, and trains in the world.

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