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Forest on the banks of the Congo river system, Equatorial province, Democratic Republic of Congo. Greenpeace fact finding tour aimed at documenting the social and environmental impacts of industrial logging.

Children of a logger stand in front of Afrormosia logs in the SAFBOIS concession. Afrormosia is a protected tree species whose international trade is strictly regulated (listed under CITES Appendix II) .

frica's largest tropical rainforest reserve. With its 33.350 km2, the park is larger then Belgium. The park's wildlife is under threat from large scale illegal poaching operations. Logging is expanding in the rainforest southwest of the park's...

The mysterious Okapi, shown here in captivity, is only found in the dense rainforests of the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo. This animal, a relative of the giraffe, is rarely seen in the wild.

Children running after a truck, in the village of Bossa where Sodefor has a logging concession. Sodefor is a logging company that operates in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Expansion of logging into remaining areas of intact forests in the...

Hundreds of community representatives from Oshwe, Democratic Republic of the Congo, protesting at continued logging by SODEFOR (Société de Développement Frostier). Their demonstration took place outside a three-day community meeting organised by...

Community representatives demonstrating outside a three-day community meeting organised by SODEFOR in Oshwe, Democratic Republic of Congo. Marching from the town to the conference hall, the demonstrators showed how fed up they were by chanting...

Community representatives hold signs outside a three-day community meeting organised by logging giant SODEFOR. Having been the victim of many broken SODEFOR promises in the past, participants were skeptical about the company’s commitment to make...

A sign reading "Toboyi SODEFOR": "We don’t want SODEFOR anymore". Greenpeace urges the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo to clean up the industrial logging sector and to stop its expansion. This call echoes that of hundreds of...

Supervisor Rudy Schlepp attaches a buoy to the the Dual Deep Worker submarine before descending into the the Gulf of Mexico, October 17, 2010. A team of independent scientists joined the crew of the Arctic Sunrise to conduct a series of...

19 October 2010 - Buddhist monks release sky lanterns before the 80 foot statue of Buddha in Bodh Gaya, where Gautama Buddha attained enlightenment. The lanterns read “Save the Climate. Act Now.” and call for renewable energy as a solution to...

21 October 2010 - Greenpeace activists wearing chemical protection suits and gasmasks roll out the banner reading "BNP Paribas! Stop radioactive investments" in Russian and English in front of the BNP Paribas office in Moscow. BNP banking group,...

25 October 2010 - Greenpeace activist Sam Moko (right) presents Papua New Guinea (PNG) representative Federica Bietta with the ‘Golden Chainsaw’ award. The Government of PNG is awarded the ‘Golden Chainsaw’ for demanding unconditional, fast-track...

Greenpeace activists at the COP 17 in Durban, South Africa call on President Dilma Rousseff to “Save the Amazon, Stop the chainsaws.” A bill proposing a complete overhaul of the current Forest Code in Brazil, first issued in 1934, was approved...

Here Greenpeace activists project a message onto a building near the UN Climate negotiations in Durban. The projection was to send a message to Brazil, calling on President Dilma to 'Stop the chainsaws' and veto a new forest code that would...