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Forest Code : Millions of hectares of Amazon rainforest threatened

Publication | July 6, 2011 at 18:42

The threat to the Forest Code and tens of millions of hectares of Amazon rainforest is real.

Barbie Drops Rainforest Packaging

Media release | October 5, 2011 at 8:47

Los Angeles, California: Toy giant Mattel, the company behind Barbie, announced today that it will stop buying paper and packaging linked to rainforest destruction following a global campaign by Greenpeace.

Brazil Protects 16 Million Acres of Amazon Rainforest

Feature story | February 13, 2006 at 18:00

The President of Brazil announced a tremendous victory for the rainforest today – the creation of two new national parks and the expansion of another. In total, 16 million acres of the Amazon have been set aside for protection - an area double...

Soy Moratorium Reaches One Year Mark

Feature story | July 23, 2007 at 18:00

It's been a year since the start of a two-year moratorium on trading soy from freshly deforested areas of the Amazon. It's clear that it is having a positive impact and it looks like the Brazilian government is following suit with a land...

Brazilian Government Orders Closing of Cargill’s Soy Processing Plant in Amazon

Feature story | March 23, 2007 at 19:00

Just months after Greenpeace activists blocked the facility, Cargill's soy processing plant in the heart of the Amazon rainforest has been shut down by the Brazilian government.

Greenpeace Briefing: Tropical Deforestation and the Kyoto Protocol, Sept 07

Publication | September 23, 2007 at 18:00

The destruction of the world’s forests is one of the main causes of climate change, second only to the energy sector. Tropical forests contain up to 40 percent of the world's terrestrial carbon and play a powerful role in mitigating the growing...

McKinsey's rainforest advice? A McCon job.

Blog by Jay Ferrari | November 17, 2011

Last spring, Greenpeace completed an investigation of global consultancy firm McKinsey that reveals an insidious deforestation double-cross. While tasked with showing forest countries including the Democratic Republic of Congo,...

Brazilian Forest Code vote delayed, but destruction spikes

Blog by Daniel Brindis | May 19, 2011 1 comment

As the Brazilian congress continues to debate the forest code and seriously consider amnesty to environmental criminals, a chunk of the amazon the size of greater Los Angeles (477 square Km) disappeared, just this past month alone...

Protection Money

Publication | November 23, 2010 at 3:00

How industry expansion plans would use climate funds to bankroll deforestation and undermine President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s commitment to low-carbon development.

Sinar Mas pays ‘ITS Global’ to greenwash its dirty laundry

Publication | September 29, 2010 at 9:02

In July 2010, Greenpeace released ‘How Sinar Mas is Pulping the Planet’, an investigative report that exposed how Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) is destroying carbon-rich peatlands and critical wildlife habitat in Indonesia. APP is the pulp arm of the...

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