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Greenpeace Responds to Amazon Forest Fires
Over the past days, forest fires have been ravaging the Brazilian Amazon region. The number of fire outbreaks recorded in the Amazon in 2019 is one of the largest in…
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The terrifying Russian wildfires in pictures
Wondering what an area of forest burning larger than Belgium looks like? Greenpeace Russia has been documenting the wildfires, to show their effect, size and catastrophic impact on all of…
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National turns new leaf on green attitude but still lost on agriculture and climate
Greenpeace has welcomed some of the National Party’s new environment policy proposals announced at the annual Bluegreens Forum today, but is critical of the party’s failure to address climate change…
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Breakthrough as world’s largest palm oil trader gives forest destroyers nowhere to hide
The world’s largest palm oil trader, Wilmar International, has published a detailed action plan to map and monitor all of its suppliers. If implemented, this would put the palm oil giant, which…
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Forest destroying products and producers
A lot has happened since Greenpeace has been fighting forest destruction for palm oil. Apple invented the iPhone. Shell went into – and pulled out of – the Arctic. Spain,…
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My tears aren’t enough to protect the rainforest. That’s why I’m taking action
Our precious rainforests are being destroyed to make way for palm oil plantations, endangering species and exploiting our people. That’s why I’m here. Right now, me and five other activists are on board a massive shipment of dirty palm oil in the Atlantic Ocean, which is likely headed for products on European supermarket shelves. Wilmar,…
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Six Greenpeace activists arrested on board a ship loaded with palm oil heading to Europe
Amsterdam, Netherlands – Six Greenpeace activists have been arrested by the captain of a giant tanker, while peacefully boarding the 185-metre long cargo loaded with palm oil products from Wilmar…
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What do Oreo, Mondelez, Wilmar have to do with orangutans?
My name is Annisa Rahmawaiti, and I am a forest campaigner at Greenpeace Indonesia. I’ve dedicated my whole life to protecting our rainforests, yet many companies are complicit in razing them…
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Fonterra implicated in deforestation and human rights abuses
Wednesday 19 September, Over one a half million rugby fields of Indonesian rainforest were destroyed between 2015 and 2017. (1) That’s just one of the harrowing statistics included in a…
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Wings of Paradise: Drawing attention to rainforest destruction
For too long the story of Indonesian forests has been painted with the darkness of burning rainforests, disappearing species and displaced communities. Greedy palm oil companies, that only seem to…
