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Greenpeace activists and local community finishing constructing a dam on a peatland canal to stop the drainage of the carbon-rich peatland as part of their "Climate Defender Camp" at Kampar Peninsula, Teluk Meranti village, Riau province, Indonesia on Tuesday 03 November 2009.The Camp was built to bring urgent attention to the role that deforestation plays in driving dangerous climate change, a critical issue to be addressed at the UN Copenhagen Climate Summit in December.

Greenpeace activists and local community finishing constructing a dam on a peatland canal to stop the drainage of the carbon-rich peatland as part of their "Climate Defender Camp" at Kampar Peninsula, Teluk Meranti village, Riau province, Indonesia on Tuesday 03 November 2009.The Camp was built to bring urgent attention to the role that deforestation plays in driving dangerous climate change, a critical issue to be addressed at the UN Copenhagen Climate Summit in December.

Greenpeace activists and local community finishing constructing a dam on a peatland canal to stop the drainage of the carbon-rich peatland as part of their "Climate Defender Camp" at Kampar Peninsula, Teluk Meranti village, Riau province, Indonesia on Tuesday 03 November 2009.The Camp was built to bring urgent attention to the role that deforestation plays in driving dangerous climate change, a critical issue to be addressed at the UN Copenhagen Climate Summit in December.

Greenpeace activists and local community finishing constructing a dam on a peatland canal to stop the drainage of the carbon-rich peatland as part of their "Climate Defender Camp" at Kampar Peninsula, Teluk Meranti village, Riau province, Indonesia on Tuesday 03 November 2009.The Camp was built to bring urgent attention to the role that deforestation plays in driving dangerous climate change, a critical issue to be addressed at the UN Copenhagen Climate Summit in December.

Greenpeace activists and local community finishing constructing a dam on a peatland canal to stop the drainage of the carbon-rich peatland as part of their "Climate Defender Camp" at Kampar Peninsula, Teluk Meranti village, Riau province, Indonesia on Tuesday 03 November 2009.The Camp was built to bring urgent attention to the role that deforestation plays in driving dangerous climate change, a critical issue to be addressed at the UN Copenhagen Climate Summit in December.

Greenpeace activists and local community finishing constructing a dam on a peatland canal to stop the drainage of the carbon-rich peatland as part of their "Climate Defender Camp" at Kampar Peninsula, Teluk Meranti village, Riau province, Indonesia on Tuesday 03 November 2009.The Camp was built to bring urgent attention to the role that deforestation plays in driving dangerous climate change, a critical issue to be addressed at the UN Copenhagen Climate Summit in December.

Greenpeace activists in two inflatable boats intercepted a ship in France, the Izmir Castle, carrying 15,000 tonnes of palm kernel from Indonesia in the port of Montoir-de-Bretagne. The Greenpeace activists painted "Climate Crime" on the hull of the cargo ship, while eleven other activists climbed on the top of three cranes unloading the cargo.

Greenpeace Water Patrol activists examine contaminated sediments beneath the wastewater discharge pipe of hazardous waste treatment company Cleanway Technology Corporation (CTC) in Silang, Cavite, around 55 kilometers South of Manila, prior to plugging the pipe itself.

Greenpeace activists and local volunteers attempt to halt drainage by constructing dams on the peatland canals as part of their "Climate Defender Camp" at Kampar Peninsula, Teluk meranti village, Riau province,Indonesia on Wednesday 28 October 2009. The Camp was built to bring urgent attention to the role that deforestation plays in driving dangerous climate change, a critical issue to be addressed at the UN Copenhagen Climate Summit in December.