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  • We speak for the trees

    When Resolute Forest Products, Canada’s largest logging company, threw two multi-million dollar lawsuits at Greenpeace and Stand.Earth for speaking out for the protection of the Canadian boreal forest, people around the world did not sit idly by.

    Ethan Gilbert 2 min read
  • Silent Spring, 2017

    In 1962, Rachel Carson published Silent Spring, drawing attention to the impact of DDT on bird populations. Her book inspired most nations to ban DDT by the 1980s. The ban and other protection efforts helped save some bird species from extinction, including the osprey, brown pelican, and white stork. However, fifty-five years after Carson's book,…

    Rex Weyler 7 min read
  • 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