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What does climate change have to do with human rights?
When the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was created in 1948, it was done so to hold firm to the highest of ideals, a set of entitlements that allow all…
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Time for a ban on deforestation for palm oil, not a moratorium, says Greenpeace
Jakarta, 21 September - Indonesia’s President Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo has partially frozen new palm oil concessions in Indonesia for the next three years. [1] The moratorium only applies to land controlled by the Ministry of Forestry and does not cover land controlled by regional government or forest within existing palm oil concessions - leaving millions…
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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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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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Yeb Saño: “We will not stop until we hold fossil fuel companies accountable for climate change.”
Yeb Saño, Executive Director of Greenpeace Southeast Asia, on climate justice
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Plans to expand a coal-fired power plant on Bali’s north coast threaten one of the island’s best-loved beaches and West Bali National Park
Local people in Buleleng District, Bali, are contesting plans to expand the Celukan Bawang coal-fired power plant on the island’s north coast.
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“Chief, there is fire at sea!”
Saturday 31 March 2018, Margasari Village Chief, Ride, woke up because some of the villagers came to report an extraordinary thing. Oil was creeping into their villages.
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Girl power at its finest: The women of Greenpeace Tim Cegah Api
Meet the individuals and groups putting their lives at risk to save Southeast Asia’s fragile forests and the wildlife that inhabit it.
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Celebrating Malaysia Day away from home, for the sake of our forests
Witnessing Greenpeace Forest Fire Protection Team, in action.
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Preventing and extinguishing forest fires without fires
The forest fire crisis of 2015, one of the worst crises in Indonesia’s history is still fresh in our memory. The disaster in Sumatra and Kalimantan led to the destruction of around 2.6 million hectares of forests and peatlands, causing 103,000 premature deaths of people in the region and increasing the Orangutans’ risk of extinction.…