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UK Home Office: ancient forest crime scene

Image | 7 July, 2010 at 2:06

Greenpeace activists declared the site of the UK's new Home Office Headquarters in 2003 an ancient forest crime scene, while climbers hung a banner from a crane reading "Rainforest Demolition Site". Greenpeace's undercover investigations revealed...

Stopping a train of African tropical wood

Image | 7 July, 2010 at 2:02

Greenpeace activists are carried away after stopping a train of African tropical wood, imported by Fritz Jaeggi, in Koblenz, Switzerland, 2000.

Branding pallets of Amazonian plywood at Tilbury Docks, UK

Image | 7 July, 2010 at 1:57

Greenpeace volunteers brand pallets of Amazonian plywood with "Protect the Amazon - Stop Criminal Timber Imports" at the UK's Tilbury Docks in 2000 with stencils and red paint so importers and consumers would know where the timber originated.

Activist on the anchor chain of the Saga Tide, 2001

Image | 7 July, 2010 at 1:47

A Greenpeace activist, Mannes Ubels, is sprayed with a high pressure hose while holding on to the anchor chain of the Saga Tide, which is importing timber from Canada's Great Bear rainforest to the Netherlands, 2001. The Great Bear Rainforest...

Activist at top of the crane of the Meltemi

Image | 6 July, 2010 at 17:25

Greenpeace activist, Josevi, after spending night at top of the crane of the Meltemi, 2002. On the ship's decks, you can see the 'blood timber' from Liberia, which was used as a means of arming Charles Taylor's war on the people of Liberia.

Activists board the Meltemi ship

Image | 6 July, 2010 at 17:21

A Greenpeace action against the logging of timber from ancient forests in Liberia, 2002. Greenpeace activists board the 'Meltemi' ship to inspect the load of Liberian logs coming into Europe. Greenpeace investigations between 2000 and 2003...

Forest action in Paia Port

Image | 6 July, 2010 at 17:14

Greenpeace activists paint barges of illegally felled trees in Paia Port, Papua New Guinea, 2008. The logs wait on Paia Port's waterways, prevented from being loaded onto the Harbour Gemini ship, which was occupied by Greenpeace activists, in the...

Forest crime

Image | 6 July, 2010 at 17:11

Greenpeace activists deploy a banner in the Amazon, Brazil, in 2005. The 'I' of the 'Crime' is marked by a logged Brazilian nut tree, the castanheira. The castanheira species has been protected in Brazil since 1994, but plenty have been logged.

Penan man watches a timber truck

Image | 6 July, 2010 at 16:47

A Penan man watches a passing Shin Yang Timber truck loaded with logs, Malaysia. The Penan are one of the few remaining nomadic peoples of the rainforest. Their homeland in the Malaysian state of Sarawak is undergoing one of the highest rates of...

Timber trucks, Central African Republic

Image | 6 July, 2010 at 16:45

A line of timber trucks laden with logs, Central African Republic. The forest of the Congo basin stretches across central Africa, covering the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), parts of Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, the Central African Republic and...

Log Camp 56, Papua New Guinea

Image | 6 July, 2010 at 16:40

Landowner Sakas Aonomo, his wife Tusue Sakas and daughter, Warume Sakas, walking through Log Camp 56, Papua New Guinea. The family is opposed to the logging on their land and is trying to prevent further roads from being constructed. Read more »

Worker in Sodefor Log Camp, DRC

Image | 6 July, 2010 at 1:29

A worker with several large cut logs in a Sodefor Log Camp in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). More than 21 million hectares of rainforest in the DRC are currently allocated to the logging industry. Most of DRC’s timber is exported to...

Logging camp in Central Kalimantan

Image | 6 July, 2010 at 1:21

A logging camp in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia. Indonesia's forests are home to 10% of the planet's diversity of plants and animals. Orang-utans, elephants, tigers, rhinoceros, more than 1500 species of birds, and thousands plant species are all...

Papua New Guinea

Image | 6 July, 2010 at 1:17

Clan member Auwagi Sekapiya is carrying a baby in the ancient forests of Papua New Guinea. The Paradise Forests are among the largest and most biologically diverse ancient forests left in the world. The future of these forests, and of the people...

Pristine rainforest in the Amazon

Image | 6 July, 2010 at 0:15

Pristine rainforest in the Amazon. Since 2000, Greenpeace has been campaigning to end illegal logging in ancient forests in the Amazon, Central Africa, Russia and South-East Asia. A 2010 UN report found that ancient forests worldwide have...

Save Congo's Forests Action in Brussels

Image | 27 June, 2010 at 17:55

27 June 2010- People hold up green leaflets reading in French 'Save Congo's Forests' during a demonstration in Parc du Cinquantenaire (Jubelpark), a few days before Congo's 50th independence anniversary. Stop forest crime in DRC .

Orangutans at Nestle HQ, Amsterdam

Image | 28 April, 2010 at 20:32

28 April - Netherlands. A Greenpeace activist dressed as an orangutan sits in a 'nest' in front of the Nestlé headquarters in Amsterdam urging the company to stop using palm oil from rainforest destruction. Take Action!

Forest Action at Nestlé HQ in Sydney

Image | 22 April, 2010 at 15:33

22 April - Australia. Greenpeace activists dressed as orangutans swing by the Nestlé headquarters in Sydney, urging the company to stop using palm oil from rainforest destruction. Find out more .

Forest Action at Nestlé AGM in Switzerland

Image | 5 April, 2010 at 15:28

05 April - Switzerland. Greenpeace activists dressed as orang-utans protest in front of the building of the Nestlé annual shareholders meeting. "Nestlé, give us a break" is their message to the world's largest food company who continues using...

Give me a break

Image | 17 March, 2010 at 18:30

A Greenpeace billboard near the Nestle HQ in Croydon, London, urges the confectionary giant to stop buying palm oil from the biggest and most destructive palm oil producer – the Sinar Mas Group.

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