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Forests For Climate: the great tree protection scheme

Blog entry by Jamie | 31 October, 2008 1 comment

With a scheme like Forests For Climate, intact forests would become more valuable than cash crops like palm oil © Beltra/Greenpeace Change is in the air. We've picking up several new crew members in Jakarta who are joining the...

'It's more powerful than just wearing a t-shirt'

Blog entry by Jamie | 30 October, 2008

It’s slightly weird being docked after ten days at sea. I woke this morning to find Jakarta hovering on the horizon with container ships lining the route into Tanjung Priok port, and sadly the glistening blue seas and dense white...

Our man in the sky

Blog entry by Jamie | 28 October, 2008

Someone who has taken part in all the research flights our helicopter Tweety has carried out during the Esperanza's current tour is, of course, the pilot. Shaun (or Dingo as he's known about the ship) has flown every mission in both...

Video: Investigating Indonesia's last forest frontier

Blog entry by Jamie | 27 October, 2008 1 comment

To show off the most interesting footage from the helicopter trips over Papua during the Esperanza's current tour of Indonesia, we’ve compiled the video below. It’s narrated by Bustar, who went on many of the flights, and he explains...

Feet on both sides of the border

Blog entry by Jamie | 26 October, 2008

On the Esperanza, we've been sailing past and through some of the most wonderfully named parts of the world - Flores, Butu, Ceram, Halmahera and their associated seas - which for me conjure up images of trading ships at full sail,...

Follow the Esperanza in Google Earth

Blog entry by Jamie | 22 October, 2008

If you're still trying to picture the destinations we've been to so far and the route we're taking through Indonesia as part of the Forests For Climate tour, you can now follow the Esperanza in Google Earth. Just download this Googe...

Manokwari, here we come

Blog entry by Jamie | 17 October, 2008

A dance troupe from Manokwari take a tour of the Esperanza's bridge © Greenpeace/Rante After nine days at sea, the Esperanza pulled into Manokwari harbour this morning - that's Manokwari in the Indonesian province of West Papua, not...

Loggers besiege Greenpeace in Amazon; get to keep log

Blog entry by Andrew | 18 October, 2007 3 comments

From the Guardian : RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) - Hundreds of loggers and angry residents have surrounded eight Greenpeace members who tried to leave an Amazon town with a scorched tree trunk for an exhibit on global warming, 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...

TODAY: Brown blames COP-Flop on China, US; Mexican cars take a dive and Climate...

Blog entry by arook | 22 December, 2009 3 comments

This the first in a trial series Unsurprisingly, the biggest story in environment and Greenpeace news this week has been the disappointing outcome of the COP15 summit as major NGOs are turning focus on Mexico in 2010. Only US media...

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