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Indonesia’s draft plan will leave rainforests and orang-utans vulnerable

Press release | February 26, 2011 at 16:15

Jakarta, Indonesia, 26 February 2011 -- Greenpeace has obtained a copy of a draft moratorium on forest destruction in Indonesia, due to be announced in days, that shows it will fail to protect vital rainforests, unless urgent action is taken to...

Thousands call for clean energy in Thailand

Image gallery | February 24, 2011

Thousands call for clean energy in Thailand

Feature story | February 24, 2011 at 18:44

Our region, Southeast Asia, is home to strong grassroots environmental movements especially those opposing the spread of harmful coal and nuclear energy.

Greenpeace report reveals scientific doubt on safety of Bt eggplant

Feature story | February 24, 2011 at 16:30

Greenpeace today released a technical report that casts scientific doubts on the safety of Bt eggplant (locally known as talong), and called upon the President to intervene and immediately ban further field trials of all Bt eggplant crops in the...

10,000-strong ‘human chain’ calls on Thai government to quit coal

Press release | February 24, 2011 at 16:07

Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand — Greenpeace today called on the Government of Thailand to make a clean energy future a reality for Thai communities by abandoning plans to build more coal fired power plants and prioritizing solutions such as...

Greenpeace moves to decontaminate Bt eggplant field trial site in the Philippines

Feature story | February 17, 2011 at 11:07

Bay, Laguna, Philippines - A Greenpeace decontamination unit today removed genetically-engineered Bt eggplant, locally known as ‘Talong’, from a field trial site in Barangay Paciano Rizal in Bay, Laguna, and sealed the experimental food crop in...

Giant Indonesian Palm Oil Company Announces Plan to Halt Forest Destruction

Feature story | February 9, 2011 at 12:34

Responding to news today that the palm oil arm of Sinar Mas, Golden Agri-Resources, has announced a plan to halt the destruction of Indonesia’s forests previously caused by their operations, Bustar Maitar, head of Greenpeace’s campaign to protect...

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