Protect the Amazon rainforest
As the largest remaining rainforest on Earth, the Amazon rainforest is one of the most diverse ecosystems in the world; almost half of all known species live in the Amazon. Sadly, it's also experiencing one of the highest rates of deforestation on the planet. While our Amazon campaign has had some remarkable successes over the past few years, there is still much more to do to protect the Amazon.
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Photos from the Amazon win international award
Eucalyptus plantations surround an area of rainforest in the Amazon: one of Daniel's winning images ©Greenpeace/Beltrá
Photographs illustrating the...
All aboard the Arctic Sunrise in Brazil
One of the great things about working for an
international organisation is that my inbox is constantly filling with emails
from around the globe...
How cattle ranches are chewing up the Amazon rainforest
For about three years now, we've been working on curbing the impacts of the soya industry on the Amazon rainforest in Brazil which, before the current...
The impacts of Amazon soya are shown on the map
The challenges of monitoring the effects of
deforestation on the Amazon are immense. The vast areas which need to be
covered means it's difficult to keep...
Hackers help destroy the Amazon rainforest
High-tech smuggling operations may not be what
you'd normally associate with the ongoing clearance of the Amazon rainforest,
but logging companies intent on...
