Nature

#Forests

Our forests are precious beyond imagination. We must protect them for the people living in them and people everywhere.

Forests regulate the climate and host an extraordinary array of plants and animals.

But to a greedy few, forests are just land, waiting to become pastures, plantations, or roads; sources of timber, rubber, or minerals.

Together we can be forest defenders and work towards their restoration for the benefit of all life on earth.

Things you can do

We want you to take action because together we’re strong.

#Forests Restore Forests. Restore Hope.

Companies promised to get deforestation out of their products by 2020, but they are nowhere near that goal.

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#Forests Save the Amazon

Losing the Amazon means losing the home of Indigenous and traditional communities, precious habitats, and the fight against climate change.

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#Forests Forests are life

We’re fighting to protect forests around the globe from deforestation and degradation.

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#Climate #Forests Protect Rainforests

For decades, people like you have been taking action to stop deforestation, expose destructive companies, and protect Indigenous rights.

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#Forests Defend the Great Northern Forest

The Great Northern Forest plays a crucial role in the survival of all life on Earth.

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Latest Articles

Publications

Under Fire Report Cover

Under Fire

December 2019

Brazil’s forests and savannahs remain at the frontline of industrial agriculture’s war on the world’s climate, the environment and traditional communities.

Countdown to Extinction report cover

Countdown to Extinction

June 2019

What will it take to get companies to act?

Dying for a cookie: How Mondelēz is feeding the climate and extinction crisis

November 2018

Perhaps one of the most flagrant examples of the RSPO’s failure to police its membership, and of companies like Mondelēz and Wilmar to enforce their policies, involves the Bumitama group.

The Final Countdown: Now or never to reform the palm oil industry

September 2018

A Greenpeace investigation has exposed how the world’s biggest brands are still linked to rainforest destruction in Indonesia.

Rogue Trader: Keeping deforestation in the family

June 2018

A new Greenpeace International investigation has revealed that Wilmar International, the world’s largest palm oil trader, is still linked to forest destruction.

How licensing fraud and illegal logging of Ipê trees are causing irreversible damage to the Amazon rainforest.

Imaginary Trees, Real Destruction

March 2018

A weak licensing regime and indiscriminate and illegal logging of Ipe are causing damage to the forest and its inhabitants. Some of the effects of this environmental crime are already…

Moment of Truth

March 2018

Halting and beginning to reverse the destruction of the world’s forests for agriculture is the cheapest, quickest and most equitable option to stabilise the climate and buy time for a…

Wiping Away the Boreal @Greenpeace

Wiping Away the Boreal

September 2017

Human activities are currently driving the world’s species to extinction at up to 1,000 times the natural rate. To protect biodiversity and the functioning ecosystems that are vital to our…

Clearcutting Free Speech

Clearcutting Free Speech

May 2017

Canada’s Great Northern Forest is an ancient forest, shaped by forces of nature and stewarded by Indigenous Peoples since time immemorial. Also known as Canada’s boreal forest, it has some…

Eye on the Taiga

Eye on the Taiga

March 2017

Human activities are currently driving species to extinction at a rate 1,000 times the average natural rate over the past 65 million years. Habitat loss, including degradation and fragmentation, is…

FSC Case Studies

August 2014

To keep FSC certification as a credible tool to help protect forests, Greenpeace International is publishing a series of case studies exposing controversial operations that are posing the greatest risk…