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Greenpeace Protests Home Depot's Profit From Destruction of Ancient Rainforests

Media release | November 11, 1998 at 18:00

Greenpeace activists hung a banner from the roof of a downtown Home Depot store today to protest the sale of wood from British Columbia's Great Bear Rain Forest.

Greenpeace Blockade of Ship in Long Beach Continues

Media release | October 20, 1998 at 18:00

The Greenpeace blockade of a ship carrying newsprint from British Columbia, Canada, has entered its second day. Much of the wood chips used to produce this newsprint where supplied by Interfor, one of the main companies logging the Great Bear...

Greenpeace Blockades Ship from Entering Long Beach

Media release | October 19, 1998 at 18:00

Environmental activists today blockaded a ship and forced it to anchor -- preventing it from unloading rolls of newsprint derived in part from a company threatening the largest unprotected temperate rainforest on Earth.

Greenpeace Occupies a Ship Carrying Ancient forest Wood

Media release | October 11, 1998 at 18:00

Today Greenpeace activists occupied a ship carrying ancient forest wood. The activists locked themselves to equipment on the ship, Saga Wave, preventing it from unloading.

U.S. Students Travel to Canada to Protest Ancient Forest Destruction in British Columbia

Media release | October 5, 1998 at 18:00

Today students from Washington, D.C. and Wisconsin boarded a plane to Canada to join more than a dozen children from six other countries to voice their opposition to the destruction of Canada's Great Bear Rainforest. The students are working with...

Marathon Protests at Local Home Depots

Media release | September 29, 1998 at 18:00

Today, Greenpeace will undertake a marathon 10 hour protest against the sale of ancient forest products at the Bellevue Home Depot (325 20th Avenue N.E.). Tomorrow, Greenpeace will protest at the Bothell Home Depot (18333 120th Avenue N.E.). Both...

Giant Chain Saw Runs Runs Amok in Seattle

Media release | September 21, 1998 at 18:00

Greenpeace and Great Bear Rain Forest Task Force activists today protested at three Home Depot stores in Seattle that sell ancient forest wood products. The activists set up a 40 foot long inflatable chain saw with a banner on the blade that...

Greenpeace Unfurls Giant Banner Over Niagara Falls to Save Ancient Forests

Media release | September 21, 1998 at 18:00

A Greenpeace team of international climbers, representing Canada, the United States, Germany and Australia this morning hung a banner over Niagara Falls protesting the destruction of ancient forests in North America. The banner, measuring sixty...

At Industry Logging Summit Greenpeace Demands End to Ancient Forest Destruction

Media release | August 30, 1998 at 18:00

Members of the Greenpeace burst onto the stage at the opening ceremony of the World Wood Summit today at the Chicago Marriott Downtown and called for an end to ancient forest destruction.

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