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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Campaign updates
Brazil sets targets to stop deforestation, but is it enough?
Flying over forest fires in the Amazon © Greenpeace/Beltra
With the current climate talks now underway in
Poznan, the Brazilian government has finally...
Where cattle herds go, deforestation follows
This week the Brazilian National Institute of Space Research published their latest figures on Amazon rainforest deforestation and the trees are falling as...
Amazon deforestation gets the Panorama treatment
If you haven't had your fill of news from the
Amazon lately (we've recently had live
webcasts and slideshows
from regions where fires have swept through),...
Fires raging through the Amazon
It's currently the dry season in the Amazon and, as the live webcast last week demonstrated, fires have been decimating large areas. The video crew weren't...
Live and direct from the Amazon
On Friday, a Greenpeace team
broadcast a live webcast from the heart of the Amazon rainforest, in an area
which was still-smouldering after a recent forest...
