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Soya Moratorium

Soya Moratorium

Background | 19 May, 2009 at 16:17

The soya industry has temporarily stopped buying produce from newly-deforested areas in the Amazon, but permanent protection is not guaranteed.

Greenpeace Statement To JBS Customers

Background | 28 March, 2012 at 23:17

Greenpeace during a series of private meetings this month urged companies to stop buying beef or leather from JBS Brazil.

Greenpeace ships blockade Dutch harbour to stop ancient forest timber entering europe

Greenpeace ships blockade Dutch harbour to stop ancient forest timber entering europe

Press release | 14 April, 2002 at 2:00

Sustainable forestry

Sustainable forestry

Background | 28 April, 2003 at 14:06

With the world's ancient forests disappearing, species, cultures and entire ecosystems are forever lost. Consumers are becoming increasingly concerned about the origin of the timber products they buy. Not only do individual and corporate...

Logging in the Amazon

Logging in the Amazon

Background | 21 November, 2005 at 15:27

Illegal and predatory logging plays a central role in the destruction of the Amazon. It is now generally accepted that illegal logging is the norm, rather than the exception in the Brazilian Amazon. Between 60 and 80 percent of all logging in the...

Greenpeace slams US commodities giant for Amazon crimes

Greenpeace slams US commodities giant for Amazon crimes

Press release | 22 May, 2006 at 2:00

To mark the UN's International Day for Biological Diversity today, Greenpeace activists continued their global actions against the world's largest privately-owned company, US commodities giant, Cargill, for destroying the Amazon rainforest to...

Amazon protection

Amazon protection

Press release | 14 February, 2006 at 1:00

Greenpeace has welcomed the news that a large area of the Amazon rainforest will be protected from forest destruction. The Brazilian Government has announced that 6.4 million hectares of the ancient forest, an area twice the size of Belgium, will...

Greenpeace investigates DLH's Dutch timber operations

Greenpeace investigates DLH's Dutch timber operations

Press release | 6 November, 2003 at 1:00

Greenpeace carried out an onsite investigation today into illegal loggers trading with the Danish timber trader DLH (Dalhoff, Larsen en Horneman), the largest trader in tropical hardwood in the world. The activists blocked the entrance of the...

Adidas suspends JBS contracts over Amazon destruction

Press release | 6 June, 2012 at 15:53

Sao Paulo, Brazil – Greenpeace International released today a comprehensive crime file on JBS, the world’s biggest meat company, with new evidence again linking its business practices to deforestation in the Amazon.

Brazilian Congress passes destructive new Forest Code

Brazilian Congress passes destructive new Forest Code

Press release | 26 April, 2012 at 13:53

Brasília, Brazil, April 26, 2012 - The Brazilian Congress approved significant changes to the Forest Code, which threatens to undo years of progress in the Amazon. Greenpeace is calling on Brazil's President Dilma to veto the changes, or risk the...

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