Blog: Forests

Random House announces 'ancient forest friendly' policy

Posted by admin - 4 July 2005 at 8:00am - Comments

Random House, one of the biggest publishing houses in the UK has gone public with a commitment towards making its book production 'ancient forest friendly'. This is a major step in helping to ensure the survival of the world's last ancient forests.

Article tagged as: book campaign, forests, FSC, random house, successes

Amazon soya king receives Golden Chainsaw award

Posted by admin - 20 June 2005 at 8:00am - Comments

Brazilian TV presenters about to award the 'Golden Chainsaw' to soya king Blairo Maggi

Thanks to the over 30,000 international web supporters who voted in our web poll, Blairo Maggi, the world's biggest soya farmer and governor of the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso, was awarded the 'Golden Chainsaw Award' by Greenpeace last week.

A clear winner with over 37 per cent of the vote, Maggi came ahead of Brazilian President Lula da Silva, recently criticized for failing to stem the level of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest.

Article tagged as: agriculture, amazon, blairo maggi, brazil, forests, golden chainsaw, soya

No respite for Finland's ancient forests

Posted by admin - 16 June 2005 at 8:00am - Comments

Female bear and her young in old-growth Finnish forest

Metsähallitus, the Finnish state-owned logging company, has unilaterally terminated all negotiations with the Sami reindeer herding co-operatives and has said that the logging moratorium on 90,000 hectares of important reindeer grazing forests is over. Logging could restart as early as August.

Article tagged as: destructive logging, finland, metsahallitus, sami, stora enso

The Book Campaign heads to Hay-on-Wye Festival

Posted by admin - 31 May 2005 at 8:00am - Comments

Tony Benn adds his signature in support of the Book Campaign

A team of staff and volunteers were busy working away at this year's Hay on Wye Book Festival - promoting the Greenpeace Book Campaign to the tens of thousands of authors, publishers and members of the general public who descend on Hay once a year for a feast of literary talks, films and workshops.

Article tagged as: authors, book campaign, forests, FSC, paper

Wyevale agree to stop using timber from trashed rainforests

Posted by admin - 28 April 2005 at 8:00am - Comments

Orang-utans at the Wyevale garden furniture centre

Article tagged as: burma, forests, FSC, garden furniture, illegal timber, wyevale

Greenpeace secures temporary moratorium in Finland

Posted by admin - 25 April 2005 at 8:00am - Comments

The Forest Rescue Station departs from Inari , Lapland

In May Greenpeace closed our Forest Rescue Station (FRS) located at Inari, Lapland, having achieved our objective of temporarily ending logging on valuable forest lands and in anticipation of talks on the future of the forests that were scheduled for June.

Article tagged as: authors, book campaign, destructive logging, finland, forest rescue station, metsahallitus, sami

National Lottery Project

Posted by admin - 22 April 2005 at 8:00am - Comments

Letting Glasgow know what's going on inside Kelvingrove Art Gallery

Our campaign to stop National Lottery funded projects using endangered rainforest timber took another step forward on 21st March when the Heritage Lottery fund agreed to source all timber from legal and well-managed sources for projects they fund.

Article tagged as: cardiff, forests, FSC, glasgow, illegal timber, kelvingrove, london, millenium stadium, national lottery, wembley stadium

Wyvale Crime File

Publication date:

24 March, 2005

UK's leading garden centre exposed in rainforest scandal

Summary

Our new research shows that Wyvale Garden Centres are among the worst offenders when it comes to using trashed rainforest timber in their garden products.

Download the report:

Wyvale Crime File

Article tagged as: garden furniture, reports, timber trade

Garden Furniture Guide 2005

Posted by admin - 24 March 2005 at 9:00am - Comments

Following the success of our garden furniture work in 2004, we undertook new research in Spring 2005. This revealed that in their quest to supply garden furniture Wyevale, Britain's largest garden centre chain, were trashing endangered rainforests and helping to fund one of the most brutal military dictatorships in the world.

Article tagged as: forests, FSC, garden furniture, illegal timber, wyevale