Greenpeace activists just off the coast of Sao Luis, Brazil stop a ship from loading pig iron.

The Rainbow Warrior is moored in the port city of Belem, at the mouth of the Amazon river in Brazil. It’s a historic city, over 400 years old, which was established in colonial times and has become a thriving trade center ever since.

The small holder palm oil project run by the farmers of Dosan village in Riau (Sumatra, Indonesia) is demonstrating that sustainable palm oil production and protection of Indonesia's remaining rainforest can go hand in hand.

Industrial scale palm oil production is coming to Africa and it’s bad news for the coastal rainforest of Cameroon.

Greenpeace Africa released a brand new song entitled ""Voix de la Forêt" (The Voices of the Forest), which is performed by 11 internationally acclaimed singers from the Congo Basin countries; in a bid to highlight the importance of the world's...

The Amazon rainforest is under attack. Loggers are stealing the forest. They abuse the system to launder illegal timber with official papers. Much of this timber is then sold all over the world, with two thirds of all timber exported from the...

Procter & Gamble, makers of Head & Shoulders shampoo, continues to source the palm oil found in it's products from suppliers involved with destruction of Indonesian rainforests, home to the last 400 Sumatran tigers left in the wild.

Indonesia's forests are the third largest in the world and its swamp-like peatlands are one of the world's biggest carbon stores. But decades of forest clearance to make way for industrial scale plantations is creating a tinderbox. Smoke from...

Papua is home to Indonesia's last remaining pristine forest. These areas are now under increasing threat from the encroaching palm oil industry.

Farmers and politicians of the Brazilian municipality of Juína (Mato Grosso state) hinders Greenpeace activists, OPAN (Native Amazon Operation) members and European journalists visit to the Enawene Nawe Indigenous Land. Watch truculence and...

The announcement of the extension of a moratorium on soya expansion provides hope for the Amazon rainforest.

The soaring global demand for palm oil is accelerating the destruction of the Indonesian rainforests. A tragedy for the forests and the people who depend on them and a disaster for the global climate.

Greenpeace launches its new office in the Democratic Republic of Congo - it will focus on the protection of the Congo Basin rainforest.

Greenpeace is celebrating ten years of victories for the Amazon Rainforest.

The Campaign for a World We Can Breathe In. As a campaign like this should, the video speaks for itself.

2011 was the year the bottom shook the top, the year the ballerina danced on the bull, and “The Protestor” was named Time Magazine person of the year. The faces in our Year in Pictures pay testament and tribute to our contribution and to the...

This fragile Earth needs action. It needs you. Music by Hecq. Additional images from NASA and ESA/Hubble.

In December 2009 Kumi Naidoo became Executive Director of Greenpeace International. Here he talks about his history as an activist, and his belief that the environmental and poverty issues have become inextricably linked by the challenge of...