Blog: Forests

"The forest is the lifeline of the people"

Posted by admin - 12 April 2006 at 8:00am - Comments

Brian Baring, a customary landowner from Papua New Guinea

During his visit to the UK to highlight the threat to the forests of Papua New Guinea, we caught up with Brian Baring for a quick chat about his European mission. Listen to Brian talk about life in the forests and what people in the UK can do to help stop the illegal logging.

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We're trashin' it

Publication date: 
5 April, 2006

How McDonald's is eating up the Amazon

Summary

This crime file follows the chain of rainforest destruction from the heart of the Amazon, where huge areas of forest are being cleared to plant soya, back to the UK, where McDonald's Chicken McNuggets are sold to millions of people every week.

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Eating up the Amazon

Publication date: 
6 April, 2006

Summary

New Greenpeace research shows how this soya is being fed to the chickens that you eat at places like McDonald's. We have documented thousands of tonnes of soya is being exported from the heart of the Amazon into the UK. The soya is then fed to millions of chickens in the farms that supply McDonald's. This means that every time you buy a Chicken McNugget you're taking a bite out of the Amazon.

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We're trashin' it!

Posted by admin - 4 April 2006 at 8:00am - Comments

Its a cluckin spectacle at McDonalds across the country this morning as Greenpeace volunteers expose McDonalds role in Amazon destruction

The Amazon rainforest covers 5 per cent of the world's land and extends over some 7.8 million kilometres. It is one of the most biodiverse regions on earth - at least 30 per cent of the world's land-based animal and plant species live there. The Amazon is also home to about 220,000 people from 180 different indigenous nations who live deep in the rainforest, and it plays a vital role in maintaining the world's climate.

Article tagged as: agriculture, amazon, brazil, cargill, mcdonalds, santarem, soya

Please - stop buying wood that is stolen from my people

Posted by admin - 30 March 2006 at 9:00am - Comments

PNG landowner Brian Baring outside the offices of Montague L Meyer, responsible for rainforest destruction

Brian Baring, a member of the Gingilang clan, hails from Papua New Guinea and has been involved in protecting the country's ancient forests for some time. His clan have been custodians of the land for thousands of years and are now legally the customary landowners.

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Sharing the blame: China's role in the illegal timber market

Posted by admin - 29 March 2006 at 9:00am - Comments

Timber from Papua New Guinea in a Chinese timber yard

Of China, Napoleon once said to let it sleep. When it wakes, he warned, the world will tremble. It will have escaped no one's attention that that time has almost certainly come, and as China grows in virtually every measurable way, so does its appetite for raw materials including timber.

Article tagged as: china, destructive logging, forests, illegal timber, indonesia, papua new guinea

Remaining forests detailed in unique map

Posted by admin - 21 March 2006 at 9:00am - Comments

Click on the map to see details of each region

We are destroying the world's precious ancient forests at an unprecedented rate. An area of natural forest the size of a soccer pitch is cut down every two seconds.

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Spot the illegal farmer

Posted by admin - 8 March 2006 at 9:00am - Comments

Greenpeace protesters unfurl a 2,500 metre square banner in an area of illegally cleared Amazon rainforest - the farmer's car is parked in the middle

Greenpeace protesters unfurl a massive banner in an area of illegally cleared Amazon rainforest - the farmer's car is parked in the middle

Deep in the Amazon forest, Greenpeace protesters clashed with the man responsible for a major 'forest crime' - the destruction of a vast area of pristine forest.

Article tagged as: agriculture, amazon, brazil, forests, soya

Lula told: "Save the Amazon"

Posted by admin - 7 March 2006 at 9:00am - Comments

Greenpeace protesters demonstrate as the Queen and President Lula pass by during his state visit

As President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil paid a visit to Buckingham Palace today, the Greenpeace forest football squad were there to remind him that the world has a vested interest in the future of the Amazon rainforest.

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