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Sack Simon: The forgotten forest is a bridge too far
Sneaky buggers those forests. Hard to keep track of. One minute they’re there, next they aren’t… a bit like Members of Parliament.
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Photos from the orangutan cemetery
Bones from an orangutan near Tanjung Puting National Park © ULET IFANSASTI Proctor & Gamble claims that an astonishing 4.8 billion people worldwide use their products, which include anti-dandruff shampoo Head…
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Mattel’s controversial career choice for Barbie: rainforest destroyer
For over 50 years now Mattel has been choosing Barbie’s career for her. She’s had a lot of different professions over the years but Mattel’s latest choice for Barbie: ‘Rainforest…
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Fonterra embarrasses the Government over palm kernel
On Saturday five Greenpeace activists took action on a shipment of palm kernel entering the Port of New Plymouth bound for Fonterra farms. The five of them were able to stay aboard the ship, locked in the crane cabs and on the anchor chain for 12 hours. Their action brought this important issue back into…
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The Fonterra PKE milk ad they don’t want you to see
NZ dairy giant Fonterra's industrial dairying approach is driving production beyond the limits. NZ cows can no longer be fed on grass alone, and Fonterra's dairy herds are fed palm kernel expeller (PKE) grown on land in South East Asia where rainforests once stood.
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Fonterra’s Climate Crimes: A call to action
Just before dawn this morning Greenpeace activists shut down a mine pit at the Southland ‘New Vale’ lignite coalmine. This was the third of a series of actions targeting Fonterra’s…
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Fonterra implicated in rainforest destruction
A Greenpeace investigation has revealed that the iconic New Zealand dairy giant Fonterra is implicated in Indonesian and Malaysian rainforest destruction, dead orangutans and driving global greenhouse gas emissions.
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The plantation effect
An Ecoforestry Review of the Environmental Effects of Exotic Monoculture Tree Plantations in Aotearoa/New Zealand
