Forests

Get Involved

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 02:22:07 GMT

Get The Facts

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 02:21:06 GMT

Kleenex Free Classrooms: Protecting the Boreal Forest

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 02:15:49 GMT

The North American Boreal forest is one of the largest intact ancient forests. In addition to being an important area for First Nations and indigenous communities, the Boreal forest is also home to caribou, lynx, songbirds and wolves. As one of the largest storehouses of carbon on the planet, it is essential in the fight against global warming.

Take Action

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 01:48:37 GMT

Let Out Your Creative Juices

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 01:47:58 GMT

The Ancient Forests

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 01:47:22 GMT

The Solution

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 01:46:37 GMT

The Problem

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 01:45:56 GMT

Forest Defenders Camp

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 22:38:01 GMT

The Forest Defenders Camp is part of our international effort to protect the world's remaining forests and global climate prior to December's negotiations on the Kyoto Protocol. The camp is located 150km to the south and east of Pekanbaru, on the border of the plantations operated by subsidiaries of the company PT Duta Palma Nusantara. The camp is based close to the boundary of forest destruction, where a palm oil plantation is clearing peatland forest.

Our work in Paradise

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 22:33:55 GMT

Greenpeace has been working in the Paradise Forests for over a decade exposing illegal and destructive logging and working with local communities to reclaim their traditional lands and create sustainable solutions. Our work has seen us confront the illegal loggers in the forest and in the consumer countries.

Paradise Forests

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 22:30:30 GMT

Only 20 percent of the world's ancient forests remain in large, intact tracts. Some of the ancient forests under greatest threat are the ‘Paradise Forests’.

The Congo Rainforest

Tue, 16 Oct 2007 20:58:22 GMT

Covering 358 million acres, the forests of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) provide livelihoods for 40 million people and play an important role in both biodiversity protection and global climate stability. Now relative stability has returned to the DRC after years of war, the threat of uncontrolled industrial logging hangs over the second largest rainforest in the world.

Bonobo

Tue, 24 Apr 2007 22:56:08 GMT

African Forest Elephant

Tue, 24 Apr 2007 22:55:57 GMT

Western Lowland Gorilla

Tue, 24 Apr 2007 22:55:47 GMT

Forest Wildlife Factsheets

Tue, 24 Apr 2007 22:54:12 GMT

Music Wood

Fri, 23 Feb 2007 16:24:47 GMT

Threats and Solutions

Thu, 20 Jul 2006 17:36:48 GMT

Fifteen percent of the Amazon rainforest has already been destroyed. Since the 1970s, an area of ancient rainforest the size of California has been lost.

The Amazon Rainforest

Wed, 17 May 2006 19:11:10 GMT

Intact Forest Landscapes

Mon, 27 Mar 2006 18:36:08 GMT

Until now, it has been hard to keep tabs on the world's ancient forests. We know that we have been destroying forests at an uprecedented rate, but it's been difficult to determine which forests have been most affected and to what extent. Fortunately, we have created a new map of our ancient forests (what's left of them anyway) using up-to-date, high resolution satellite imagery. Today, only eight percent of our ancient forests are protected, and as this map clearly indicates, we need to act fast to protect the rest.