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Wings of Paradise: Drawing attention to rainforest destruction
Wings of Paradise mural by award-winning Malaysian artist Lee Hui Ling in Kuala Lumpur's historic Chinatown district. © GreenpeaceFor too long the story of Indonesian forests has been painted with the darkness of burning rainforests, disappearing species and displaced communities.
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Greenpeace: 11th hour for the climate, it’s time for leadership to truly emerge
Manila / San Francisco - Typhoon Mangkhut, one of the strongest storms of the year, is forecast to hit the north of the Philippines by the weekend before threatening Hong Kong and Macau. In the Atlantic, Hurricane Florence made landfall on the US east coast on Friday and is growing larger. Although its wind speed…
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Marine life flies outside UN as world meets to discuss global ocean treaty
Greenpeace activists flew a giant turtle outside the United Nations HQ in New York this morning, as countries gathered to begin negotiations, for the first time in history, towards a treaty covering all oceans outside of national borders.
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World’s top climate experts to testify in landmark investigation into fossil fuel companies
Some of the world’s most highly-regarded climate change science, policy, research, and legal experts will appear as witnesses in the ongoing hearings by the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) in the Philippines on the responsibility of 47 fossil fuel companies for the global climate crisis.
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Land management ministry awarded ‘trophy’ for year-long defiance of supreme court order to open forest data
NGOs took action today in front of the Indonesian ministry responsible for lands to protest its failure to implement a Supreme Court decision ordering forest data be released to the public.
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World Orangutan Day: Numbers still in decline despite Indonesian government’s new claims
This World Orangutan Day marks a critical time for the Bornean Orangutan, whose numbers are rapidly declining experts say.
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Peter Willcox: You cannot use violence to change people’s minds
How Captain Peter “Pete” Wilcox who see the sea for what it truly is- a living, breathing, thriving ecosystem meant to be preserved- and even devote themselves, even risk their own lives, to protect it.
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Wilmar executives resign as fallout from deforestation scandal spreads
Martua Sitorus, the co-founder of the world’s largest palm oil trader, Wilmar International, has resigned one week after Greenpeace exposed his links to Gama Plantation
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World’s largest palm oil trader linked to rainforest destruction twice the size of Paris
Wilmar International, the world’s largest palm oil trader, is still linked to forest destruction for palm oil almost five years after committing to end deforestation.
