Blog: Forests

Garden furniture league table 2006

Publication date: 
20 April, 2006

The third annual league table shows how garden furniture retailers in the UK compare in terms of selling furniture made from sustainable timber. Some retailers have shown a marked improvement in ensuring their stock is certified by the Forest Stewardship Council while others still have work to do.

Note: The information provided in this league table is based on data provided by companies before May 2006. Please be aware that changes in company practices may have occurred since that time.

Download the report:
Article tagged as: forests, garden furniture, league table, reports

Garden furniture campaign history

Posted by admin - 20 April 2006 at 8:00am - Comments

Do you know where your deckchair came from?

Now in its third year, the Greenpeace Garden Furniture campaign has been shaking up retailers and manufacturers alike and resulted in sweeping changes to the industry.

Article tagged as: destructive logging, forests, FSC, garden furniture, illegal timber, league table

Garden Furniture Guide 2006

Posted by admin - 20 April 2006 at 8:00am - Comments

B&Q are one of the retailers who are at the top of this year's garden furniture league

It's back - the guide that shows which retailers are stocking forest-friendly garden furniture and how they rate against each other in our annual league table.

A British summer beckons and thoughts turn to lazy days in the garden, sheltering from the rain under a parasol on elegant sun loungers whilst watching the barbeque splutter its dying embers over half-thawed sausages.

Article tagged as: forests, FSC, garden furniture, illegal timber, league table, supermarkets

"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.

Article tagged as: audio, brian baring, destructive logging, forests, illegal timber, papua new guinea

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.

Download the report:
Article tagged as: amazon, forests, mcdonalds, reports, soya

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.

Download the report:
Article tagged as: amazon, forests, mcdonalds, reports, soya, UK

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.

Article tagged as: brian baring, destructive logging, forests, illegal timber, papua new guinea, paradise forests

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
Syndicate content

Follow Greenpeace UK