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
The prince and the rubber tapper: stop trashing rainforests
Yesterday, the 'guardian
angel' of Brazil's
environment, Marina Silva, threw
in the towel and quit her post as Brazil's environment minister. She
told...
Brazilian government gets busy in the Amazon
Following our action in France last
month - when the crew of the Arctic Sunrise blocked a shipment of timber from
the Brazilian Amazon - efforts have been...
Amazon timber shipment blocked in France
Boarding the Galina III yesterday © Greenpeace/Karl Joseph
Yesterday afternoon, the crew of one of our
ships - the Arctic Sunrise - swung into action in...
Fire and ice: images from the Amazon and the antarctic
One of the pleasures of working at Greenpeace is having access to a truly incredible photo library and there's been more than one occasion when, looking for...
Army brought in to help illegal Amazon timber crackdown
An illegal logging camp in the Amazon © Greenpeace/Daniel Beltra
Stung by the recent rise in deforestation
rates in the Amazon, the Brazilian...
