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Kleenex boxes come with Kleercut message

Blog entry by tom | 18 February, 2007 2 comments

Great activism story from the Washington Post : "Wiping away ancient forests," warned a note found inside a box bought recently at a drug store in New York by a stuffy-nosed reporter. "Here's a little secret that Kimberly-Clark, the...

Illegal Carve-up of Congo Rainforests

Feature story | 26 February, 2007 at 1:00

The second largest rainforest in the world, after the Amazon, sits in the Congo basin of Africa, with around half existing in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Around 21 million hectares (over 51 million acres) of DRC's rainforest are now...

Russian forestry agency launches investigation into illegal logging

Blog entry by Jamie | 13 March, 2007

We have some good news from Russia or, at least, the potential for good news. Back in September, our Partners in Crime report revealed how Finland is importing vast quantities of timber logged illegally in neighbouring Russia.

Cargill's controversial soya port closed in the Amazon

Feature story | 27 March, 2007 at 2:00

In the heart of the Amazon rainforest a huge soya port owned by the giant US company Cargill has just been closed down by the Brazilian Environmental Agency (IBAMA). The orders to close the port came after a seven-year legal battle by the...

Let it out for forest destruction

Blog entry by Jamie | 27 March, 2007 1 comment

It's an absolute gift when companies who are being less than kind to the environment have an advertising campaign that, with a few tweaks, can be subverted to expose their dodgy deeds. Such a treat came in the form of the Kleenex 'Let...

Time is ticking for the African rainforests

Blog entry by Jamie | 5 April, 2007 4 comments

In recent years, we've put a lot of effort into highlighting the threats facing what remains of the world's forests in North America, South America, and South East Asia. But there's one major area we haven't touched on for some time...

Rainforest destruction in Africa

Feature story | 11 April, 2007 at 2:00

The Congo rainforest is the life support system for millions of people in the 'green heart' of Africa. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) alone, 40 million people depend on the forest. Like all large intact forests, it's also crucially...

Cultural Baggage

Blog entry by Richard | 12 April, 2007 4 comments

I was taught a lesson today that I suspect will live with me for a long time. To cut a long story short, I had written an article for the website about the Congo rainforest. A Belgian colleague asked me to change the wording in one...

Merbau's last stand

Feature story | 17 April, 2007 at 2:00

Consumer demand for luxury flooring and furniture is driving a rare tree species to commercial extinction. And it will take more than the Australian government's global illegal logging fund to save it.

Dutch government and companies ignore illegal timber

Blog entry by Lisa | 25 April, 2007 1 comment

On Monday Eoin and I took part in Greenpeace actions in the Netherlands for our Forest campaign and we've taken a little time out of our busy week to write about it especially for you! Logging in parts of Asia is now entirely out of...

An urgent message from PNG forests

Feature story | 7 May, 2007 at 2:00

Delegates of the International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO) received a surprise message today. Greenpeace activists unfurled a huge banner reading "ITTO Stop Forest Destruction" outside their hotel.

Caterpillars and contracts: first-hand reports from the Congo rainforest

Blog entry by Jamie | 22 May, 2007

On Thursday, I found myself at Portcullis House, an imposing edifice that sits across the road from the main Houses of Parliament building in London. The occasion was a panel discussion hosted by Greenpeace and (deep breath) the ...

Choose the right biofuel or the orang-utan gets it

Blog entry by Jamie | 6 June, 2007

Last month in the UK, we launched a campaign with several other organisations for rigorous controls on biofuels. Governments across the EU are trying to force fuel companies to supply more biofuels and so cut carbon dioxide emissions...

Congo timber ship blocked

Blog entry by Jamie | 6 July, 2007 3 comments

For the past couple of days, a group of Greenpeace climbers have been perched on top of a set of cranes in the port of La Rochelle on the French Atlantic coast. As well as admiring a no-doubt magnificent view, they're also preventing a...

Signs of hope in the Amazon

Blog entry by Richard | 25 July, 2007 2 comments

Aerial view in the rainforest, Para State, Amazon. The forest is being burned by the US based Cargill corporation to clear land for soya plantations. One year ago yesterday the Amazon was thrown a much needed lifeline. A deal to...

Amazon forest carved up in resettlement scam (UPDATED!)

Feature story | 21 August, 2007 at 2:00

It was almost too good to be true. When the Brazilian government announced last week that deforestation rates in the Amazon had dropped for the third year running, it was certainly a cause for celebration. But it now transpires that one of the...

Good legal ruling in Amazon case

Blog entry by Andrew | 29 August, 2007

From the Independent last week : An eight-month investigation by Greenpeace into the land scam, revealed that the Brazilian land reform agency, INCRA, had set up large settlements in rainforest areas instead of placing them in...

Threats and intimidation down Amazon way

Blog entry by Jamie | 30 August, 2007 5 comments

As the narrator of this startling video states, "working in the Amazon forest is not for the faint of heart." In the past, people from campaigning organisations have been bullied by land owners and workers, facing intimidation , ...

Activist and indigenous people in danger in the Amazon

Blog entry by Andrew | 31 August, 2007 4 comments

This video is a little long, but it is an amazing view of the dangers faced by activists working in places like this. From the Guardian's website : Paulo Adário, the coordinator of Greenpeace's Amazonia campaign, who led...

Pulp freighter blockade in Canada

Blog entry by Andrew | 14 September, 2007

( More photos. ) From the press release :   Greenpeace Canada has begun a blockade of the freighter Jaeger Arrow from their ship, the Arctic Sunrise, in Quebec's Saguenay River near Chicoutimi. Three Greenpeace activists...

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