Deforestation in Nigeria has reached the alarming rate of 3.5% per year -- that's between 350,000-400,000 hectares of forest lost per year.
According to reports, in 1976 Nigeria had 23 million hectares of forest. Today just 9.6 million hectares remain: 60% of its forests have been cleared!
However such deforestation is not confined to Africa alone.
In July this year Greenpeace published a report showing how the last wild Sumatran tigers are threatened with extinction by habitat loss in the forests of Indonesia.
The tigers' natural habitat has come under threat from Indonesia's biggest pulp and paper producer, Asia Pulp and Paper, (APP). We thought that was reason enough to give APP a ‘Golden Chainsaw Award’. No applause please.
In this video Greenpeace activists present an APP spokesperson with the award for "30 years of forest destruction". All he could say was "thank-you".
orestation in Nigeria has reached the alarming rate of 3.5% per year -- that's between 350,000-400,000 hectares of forest lost per year.
According to reports, in 1976 Nigeria had 23 million hectares of forest. Today just 9.6 million hectares remain: 60% of its forests have been cleared!
However such deforestation is not confined to Africa alone.
In July this year Greenpeace published a report showing how the last wild Sumatran tigers are threatened with extinction by habitat loss in the forests of Indonesia.
The tigers' natural habitat has come under threat from Indonesia's biggest pulp and paper producer, Asia Pulp and Paper, (APP). We thought that was reason enough to give APP a ‘Golden Chainsaw Award’ to mark the International Pulp and Paper Awards in Brussels. No applause please.