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#Forests

Our forests are precious beyond imagination. We must protect them for the people living in them and people everywhere. Together we can be forest defenders and work towards their restoration for the benefit of all life on earth.

Biodiversity breakdown
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.

Become a forest guardian
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.

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  • Authors around the world stand up for free speech and forests

    Authors, journalists, poets and playwrights know that every time the right words are put to paper, or typed to a screen, our planet gets a little better. Because, without the right to express ourselves freely, we cannot make that positive change.

    Kat Clark
    4 min read
  • Clearcutting Free Speech

    Clearcutting Free Speech

    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 of the last large expanses of undisturbed natural forest, is home to threatened species, and is one of the world’s largest terrestrial stores of carbon.…

    Greenpeace International
    2 min read

  • To protect forests and free speech, lend your voice (literally!)

    Can you imagine a world where Greenpeace and other advocacy groups are no longer able to stand up for our forests, oceans and climate? A giant logging corporation called Resolute Forest Products is fighting to make this sinister vision a reality.

    Jill Pape
    2 min read
  • Fix Democracy Rally in Miami © Greenpeace

    6 ways corporate lawsuits kill free speech (and how to fight back!)

    Free speech is a right. So how can a corporation possibly stop you from speaking out? Using a legal tactic called a SLAPP, corporations like the massive Canadian logging company, Resolute Forest Products, are attempting to crack down on free speech by suing their critics into submission.

    Molly Dorozenski
    3 min read
  • Beauty of Dvinsky Forest in Russia

    Saving Dvinsky Forest: If companies don’t act, customers will

    Speaking truth to corporations has been the backbone of Greenpeace’s global forest campaign for over two decades. Putting pressure on companies buying products from forest destruction has successfully helped protect the Great Bear Rainforest in Canada, create moratoria on deforestation due to soya and cattle expansion in the Brazilian Amazon, and deliver multiple zero deforestation policies inside and…

    Alexey Yaroshenko
    3 min read
  • Woodland Caribou by Road in Canada © John Marriott

    Sending wild caribou to a zoo?

    In Canada, recent government decisions to address declining caribou populations are truly dumbfounding. These animals deserve better. The public deserves better. Future generations deserve better.

    Eduardo Sousa
    3 min read
  • Virgin Forest Area in Arkhangelsk Region in Russia © Greenpeace

    I don’t want to be a part of the problem

    My name is Khalia, I have been working with Greenpeace Russia for more than three years to try and make our planet a better place.

    Khalimat Tekeeva
    3 min read
  • Lazorskiy Reserve in Siberia © Markus Mauthe / Greenpeace

    Fate of protected area in northwest Russia in the hands of consumer brands

    Moscow, 6 March 2017 - Major western European and American companies are connected to logging companies expanding their operations into one of the largest tracts of undisturbed primary forest in Arkhangelsk Oblast of northwest Russia, a Greenpeace report reveals.

    Greenpeace International
    2 min read
  • Eye on the Taiga

    Eye on the Taiga

    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 the most important cause of this crisis. We must reduce the rate of habitat loss, and eventually halt it, if we are to protect biodiversity…

    Greenpeace International
    1 min read
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    Bring it on, 2017: New Year’s resolutions for people and the planet

    For many of us who care about the environment and about people, 2016 has been a punch to the gut. Politicians and corporations at odds with issues like human rights and a healthy planet have managed to grab power in countries all over the world this year. Meanwhile, activists are being murdered, forests are burning,…

    Dawn Bickett
    4 min read