Blog: Forests

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
All rights reserved. Credit: © Marizilda Cruppe / Greenpeace
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.

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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.

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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’.

Article tagged as: APP, asia pulp and paper, deforestation, forests, indonesia, rainforest

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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Rainbow Warrior in the Brazilian port city of Belem

Posted by James Turner - 9 May 2012 at 4:16pm - Comments

The Rainbow Warrior is moored in the port city of Belem, here at the mouth of the Amazon river in Brazil. It’s a historic city, over 400 years old, which was established in colonial times and has become a thriving trade center ever since.

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President Dilma - veto this Amazon forest code hatchet job

Posted by bex - 26 April 2012 at 1:51pm - Comments
Jaguar in the Amazon rainforest
All rights reserved. Credit: Greenpeace/John Novis
The Amazon is the planet's largest remaining rainforest, teeming with more wildlife than anywhere else on Earth.

Following years of intense pressure from the agribusiness sector, Brazil's parliament yesterday afternoon approved sweeping reforms to the country's forest protection law that spell destruction for the Amazon rainforest.

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Brazil's Sarah Palin - will she support Zero Deforestation?

Posted by Pat Venditti - 16 April 2012 at 3:03pm - Comments
The Rainbow Warrior in the Amazon
All rights reserved. Credit: Rodrigo Baléia / Greenpeace
The Rainbow Warrior in the Amazon

As the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior was sailing down the Amazon I participated in an event that was very different from our day-to-day campaigning for Zero Deforestation in the Amazon. It was a suit and tie summit in London organized by the Financial Times and the Brazilian Government to discuss the future of Brazilian agriculture.  It was a star-studded affair with the heads of the Brazilian cattle, sugar cane, chicken, beef and orange juice associations, two government ministers, and Senator Katia Abreu, head of Brazil’s National Confederation of Agriculture.    

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