Greenpeace's Rainbow Warrior is in the Amazon for a two month tour to highlight the beauty and importance of protecting the rainforest, to expose who is responsible for its destruction and to champion the solutions needed to achieve zero...
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Greenpeace today reacted with condemnation and outrage to the new Amazon deforestation figures released by the Brazilian government. The annual rate of Amazon deforestation for August 2003-August 2004 reached 26,130 square kilometers, the...
Wood charcoal is burning up more than what’s for dinner at backyard barbeques. In Brazil- the world’s largest consumer of wood charcoal, almost all of the wood charcoal is used to process pig iron ( a key ingredient for steel). Turning iron ore...
Greenpeace International in the Netherlands released evidence today exposing the role of Cargill in rainforest destruction,and revealing the company’s ties to slavery and land-grabbing in the Amazon. As a result of the investigation, Greenpeace...
The threat to the Forest Code and tens of millions of hectares of Amazon rainforest is real.
In September 2001, Greenpeace sent three international teams of volunteers into the Amazon to help the Deni Indians demarcate their land to save it from loggers. On October 2, the Brazilian government attempted to stop the demarcation. The Deni...
Sister Dorothy Stang, a longtime advocate for the disempowered in the Brazilian Amazon, was assassinated on February 12, 2005 in the State of Pará, Brazil. The 74-year-old American-born nun was shot by two gunmen as she was traveling to a...
If the U.S. election still has you down, try this for a pick-me-up: Five million acres of Amazon rainforest are now federally protected, thanks to an agreement signed by Brazilian president Luis Inacio Lula da Silva on November 9. The decision...
Manaus, Brazil, 02 December 2004. Greenpeace believes that Amazon deforestation levels for the period from August 2003 to August 2004 are much higher than the figures released by the Brazilian government indicate and may be a new record.
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