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The World Bank and Congo deforestation

The World Bank and Congo deforestation

Feature story | 30 August, 2007 at 2:00

Back in April, at the World Bank's spring meeting, there was much talk about the plight of the Congo rainforest. We'd just published a big report detailing how in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) logging titles were being granted in breach...

Alaskan rainforest faces decimation

Alaskan rainforest faces decimation

Feature story | 17 September, 2003 at 2:00

We've sent the largest ship in our fleet, the MV Esperanza, to Southeast Alaska to expose the impacts of industrial logging on the the Tongass National Forest (TNF), the largest forest in the US and one of the most diverse and irreplaceable...

Intact Forest Landscapes

Intact Forest Landscapes

Publication | 29 June, 2011 at 12:37

Greenpeace released a new report compiling the latest science about the critical importance of intact forests and the devastating effect of pushing roads through them or logging them. The report goes further to show how to protect the intact...

Crisis for FSC in the Congo Basin?

Publication | 25 May, 2011 at 19:23

Greenpeace and many other Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) members and stakeholders are seriously concerned that an increasing number of FSC certificates are being granted around the world to logging companies that do not meet the international...

Activists trapped by loggers

Activists trapped by loggers

Feature story | 18 October, 2007 at 2:00

Eight Greenpeace activists trapped in a Brazilian environmental protection agency (Ibama) office, for nearly two days, have finally managed to escape. Our team was forced to seek refuge in the Ibama Amazon base, after loggers blocked them from...

African communities and forests continue to be threatened by irresponsible US company

Press release | 12 September, 2013 at 12:44

Johannesburg/Amsterdam, 12 September 2013 - Illegal land clearance, logging, bribery and intimidation are just some of the acts controversial US corporation Herakles Farms are accused of in the South West Region of Cameroon, as they continue to...

Finnish forestry: Destroying forests, destroying livelihoods.

Publication | 8 September, 2003 at 2:00

Even in a wealthy, forest rich nation like Finland, industrial logging is jeopardising the survival of the country's last ancient or old-growth forests. These forests are crucial for maintaining biodiversity and the traditional livelihoods of the...

Murder of human rights activist in the DRC

Press release | 8 June, 2010 at 15:30

Greenpeace unreservedly condemns the murder of Floribert Chebeya Bahizire, Executive Director of the Congolese human rights organisation, La Voix des Sans Voix (VSV), who was found dead in his car in Kinshasa on Wednesday June 2, 2010. We extend...

Illegal export of mahogany continues

Illegal export of mahogany continues

Feature story | 28 October, 2002 at 1:00

One year ago we uncovered a stash of illegal mahogany in the Brazilian Amazon worth over US$7 million. The seizure of these logs and continued investigations by the government led to a ban on the logging, transport and export of mahogany. But...

Greenpeace activists prevent Sinar Mas palm oil tanker from loading in Indonesia

Press release | 14 November, 2008 at 12:13

Greenpeace today prevented the loading of crude palm oil on the Isola Corallo, a Rotterdam-bound tanker in Dumai, Indonesia's main palm oil export port. Greenpeace is calling upon the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), which meets in Bali...

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