Tropical forests, temperate rainforests and northern forests are essential for regulating the earth’s climate, while also providing us with fresh water and oxygen.
Forests are home to two-thirds of land-based species and Indigenous Peoples.
But tragically, forests are being ravaged at an alarming rate.
The destruction of forests is driving a worldwide biodiversity and climate breakdown.
Commodity-driven deforestation from raising cattle or planting soy and palm oil is a primary culprit. Mining, logging, forest fires and even climate change itself are also major culprits.
Forests are home to hundreds of thousands of Indigenous Peoples who have been fighting to protect them for generations.
Also, about 30% of the earth’s land is covered with forests, which are home to more than two-thirds of the world’s land-based species.
It’s time we all fight for forests. Today, more than ever, intact ecosystems are essential for our planet’s health and our own survival.
We must stop deforestation now and restore the health of the world’s forests. Defending and rehabilitating our forests is the most economical and fastest way to reduce GHG emissions.
Together and in solidarity with Indigenous Peoples and allies, you can help stop deforestation, forest degradation and restore forests to protect life on earth.
We want you to take action because together we’re strong.
Demand that corporations and governments end the use of fossil fuels to halt the global heating that fuels wildfires.
Demand governments to address the broken food system and protect people and nature – not corporations.
We must protect the Amazon and the Indigenous Peoples fighting for it. Join the movement!
August 2020
Industrial meat is taking us to the tipping point.
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.
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.
September 2018
A Greenpeace investigation has exposed how the world’s biggest brands are still linked to rainforest destruction in Indonesia.
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…