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.
We want you to take action because together we're strong.
Take action and tell big companies to stop using palm oil from rainforest destroyers.
Take ActionIndigenous and local communities are key to protect the rainforest but deforestation puts their way of living at risk.
Take ActionProtect the Congo Basin so that it continues to be an incredibly rich and diverse ecosystem that provides food, fresh…
Take ActionThe Great Northern Forest plays a crucial role in the survival of all life on Earth storing more carbon than…
Take ActionGreenpeace has campaigned for decades to encourage logging companies to adopt more sustainable practices — and many of them have!…
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"...today’s announcement is a potential breakthrough. If Wilmar keeps its word, by the end of 2019 it will be using satellites to monitor all of its palm oil suppliers..."
The crew from the tanker tried to stop the activists from boarding the ship. But one of the activists managed to attach the rope on to the edge of a…
“Being here is like being in a horror movie. I look around and wonder how could it happen? Could we have prevented it?”
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…
