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Nature Crime Files – Romania
When companies turn vibrant old-growth forests into fast furniture and governments allow this to happen, it is up to us to stop that violence against our basis of life.
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IKEA furniture destroys some of Europe’s last remaining ancient forests
Furniture manufacturers producing for IKEA are sourcing wood from some of Europe’s last remaining old-growth forests in the Romanian Carpathians, including in Natura 2000 protected areas, new report finds.
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Financial institutions are funding deforestation in the Amazon
Greenpeace Brazil’s new report exposes how banks are granting credit to farmers implicated in deforestation and other irregular activities in the Amazon.
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New research reveals impacts of an oil spill off Amazon Coast
Greenpeace Brazil’s Protect the Amazon Coast Expedition launched GPS drifters at different points in the mouth of the Amazon Basin to monitor marine currents in the region and show where oil could end up in case of a spill.
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Whale sharks – The gentle giants of the Galapagos Marine Reserve
The whale shark, the largest fish in the ocean, visits the waters of the Galapagos Marine Reserve on a regular basis. But there is something quite unique about the whale shark population in this area. There are over 30 different species of sharks in the Galapagos Marine Reserve, and the biggest one by far is…
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The financial sector is undermining the EU’s efforts to tackle nature destruction
The European Union presents itself as a role model in tackling biodiversity loss. But EU banks and finance institutions are bankrolling nature destruction on a global scale.
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Bankrolling Ecosystem Destruction
This report lays out the importance of EU regulation of the financial sector to align finance with the global 1.5°C and biodiversity targets, including ending any new provision of financial services to groups that contribute to nature destruction.
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“Stop deep sea mining, not protests”, Greenpeace demands regulator
Governments gather to debate deep sea mining amid growing public resistance, as the 29th session of the International Seabed Authority (ISA) starts in Kingston, Jamaica.