Blog: Forests

Latest: KFC campaign goes global

Posted by Bustar Maitar - 25 May 2012 at 2:04pm - Comments

 

This week saw the launch of new global campaign to stop KFC turning rainforests into trash, by cutting deforestation out of its supply chain.

All week Greenpeace activists have been taking the message to KFC while thousands of people around the world joined the revolt to end KFC’s secret recipe for rainforest destruction.

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KFC executives have their heads in a bucket

Posted by Chris Eaton - 24 May 2012 at 8:40am - Comments
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KFC Packaging showing the name of the supplier PT Pinto Deli, an APP subsidiary

Yesterday we released a report exposing KFC for driving rainforest destruction and pushing tigers toward extinction. Sadly, KFC executives have responded by putting a big bucket of denial on their heads.

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KFC’s secret recipe: rainforest destruction

Posted by Ian - 23 May 2012 at 1:10pm - Comments
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KFC no good for rainforests

No matter what you think about fast food, you’ll no doubt agree that rainforests shouldn’t be trashed to make packaging destined for the rubbish pile. But that’s exactly what’s happening. Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) is supplying KFC with packaging products that are made from Indonesia’s rainforests.

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Junking the Jungle: how KFC is driving rainforest destruction in Indonesia

Posted by Fran G - 23 May 2012 at 12:59pm - Comments

Our research has revealed that KFC is sourcing paper for its packaging products from rainforests. This has been confirmed in China, the UK and Indonesia. Products found to contain rainforest fibre include cups, food boxes, French fries holders, napkins and the famous chicken buckets.

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Junking the jungle

Publication date: 
22 May, 2012

Greenpeace International research has revealed that KFC is sourcing paper for its packaging products from rainforests. This has been confirmed in China, the UK and Indonesia. Products found to contain rainforest fibre include cups, food boxes, French fries holders, napkins and the famous chicken buckets. Greenpeace research has tracked a number of these products back to Asia Pulp & Paper (APP), a company that continues to rely on rainforest clearance in Indonesia. By purchasing from APP and by using paper made from rainforests, KFC and its parent company YUM!

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Actress Q'orianka Kilcher joins 7 day Amazon action

Posted by Eoin D - 22 May 2012 at 10:40am - Comments
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22 year old actress Q'orianka Kilcher climbs from a makeshift platform on the anchor chain of the "Clipper Hope" cargo ship and returns to the Greenpeace ship "Rainbow Warrior"

Actress and human rights activist Q'orianka Kilcher today joined the Greenpeace occupation of the anchor chain of a cargo ship in Brazil to protest the invasion of indigenous tribal land and illegal logging in the Amazon rainforest. The occupation is in its seventh day now and continues.

Article tagged as: amazon, brazil, deforestation, forests, zero deforestation

Investigating deforestation for soya in the Amazon

Posted by Sarah Shoraka - 17 May 2012 at 11:58am - Comments

In February this year, I went to the Amazon to help monitor new deforestation for soya and to make a film to document it. Flying over the forest frontier and seeing how huge soya farms cut into it, I experienced a feeling of dread. I knew that current industry agreements forced by Greenpeace such as the soya moratorium and enforcement by the authorities in Brazil, were just about holding back the tide of deforestation. But I also knew that plans by the agribusiness lobby in Congress could soon open the flood gates.

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Occupying an anchor chain to protest deforestation in Brazil

Posted by James Turner - 16 May 2012 at 12:24pm - Comments
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'Clipper Hope' Anchor Occupation, Brazil.

Right now Greenpeace activists have attached themselves to the anchor chain of a massive cargo ship here in Sao Luis, at the mouth of the Amazon. As long as they stay on the anchor it’s impossible for the ship to dock and load its cargo of pig iron which is destined for the USA. Pig iron is used in the production of steel for cars and is exported from Brazil ready for processing.

Article tagged as: amazon, brazil, forests, Rainforest Destruction

Where's the forest protection in APP's ‘new’ forest protection policy?

Posted by Bustar Maitar - 15 May 2012 at 10:23am - Comments
Forest and peatland clearance inside APP's Senepis tiger sanctuary
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Forest and peatland clearance inside APP's Senepis tiger sanctuary

This morning in Jakarta APP invited journalists to the launch of what it’s PR people grandly referred to as the ‘biggest announcement yet’ which would ‘reveal APP’s greatest commitment to natural forest protection as part of its sustainability program’.

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Why has APP hired Mandelson, Prince of Darkness?

Posted by andy.t - 11 May 2012 at 12:23pm - Comments
Peter Mandelson
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Exactly what is Mandelson doing for APP?

A Guardian investigation has revealed that Asia Pulp and Paper has contracted the former EU trade commissioner Lord Peter Mandelson (aka The Prince of Darkness) as an advisor. Mandelson has an impressive address book but, as this case shows, little regard for how those he advises make their money. Clearly issues around illegality and the fate of Indonesia's rainforests don’t concern this particular Labour peer. 

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