Blog: Forests

Vicwood-Thanry destroying Cameroon's ancient forests

Publication date: 
21 March, 2007

Publication date: April 2002

Summary
The lowland rainforest of Cameroon forms part of Africa's stunning Forest of the Great Apes. One of the world's last remaining strongholdsof species such as lowland gorillas, chimpanzees and forest elephants, this forest supports countless species of plants and animals and is home to around 12 million forest-dependent people. But today their future is under threat, as illegal and destructive logging companies encroach deeper and deeper into this fragile forest.

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Forest crime files: UK Government fuelling the destruction of Africa

Publication date: 
21 March, 2007

Publication date: April 2002

Summary
The Cabinet Office refurbishment project is using more than £400,000 worth of sapele from Central and West Africa for doors and windows. Greenpeace has uncovered a chain of supply that ultimately links the UK Cabinet Office to a number of the most notorious international logging companies operating in Africa's last ancient forests all with records of unsustainable, destructive and illegal logging.

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Article tagged as: africa, forests, government, illegal logging, reports

Receiving stolen goods

Publication date: 
27 February, 2002

The UK Government turns a blind eye to illegal Brazilian mahogany shipments

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Article tagged as: amazon, illegal timber, logging, mahogany, reports

SAVE or DELETE

Publication date: 
30 September, 2001

A last chance to save the world's ancient forests

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Article tagged as: habitats, logging, reports, timber trade

Letter to the Heads of State of G8 countries

Publication date: 
21 March, 2007

Publication date: July 2000

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Article tagged as: ancient forests, g8, government, illegal logging, timber trade

A Greenpeace investigation into illegal and destructive logging

Publication date: 
30 April, 2001

All three international companies targeted by Greenpeace's Amazon campaign in Brazil - Malaysian based WTK/Amaplac, Eidai from Japan and French based Lapeyre - have shifted ground as a result of campaign work carried out over the last six months.

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Article tagged as: amazon, destructive logging, illegal logging, investigations, reports, timber trade

Investigation into criminal imports of timber into the UK

Publication date: 
21 March, 2007

Behind closed doors: A major Greenpeace investigation

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Article tagged as: amazon, investigations, logging, timber trade, UK

Protect the Amazon not the criminals

Publication date: 
25 October, 2001

Mahogany report UK summary

On-the-ground investigations by Greenpeace in the Brazilian Amazon have documented damning new evidence of the truth behind the glamorous image of mahogany. Two mahogany kings now largely control the illegal mahogany trade in Pará State the major point of export for mahogany in Brazil. Moisés Carvalho Pereira and Osmar Alves Ferreira are ruthless and corrupt. More than 70% of the direct exports of mahogany from Pará to the UK came through companies connected to these two kings...

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Article tagged as: amazon, illegal, investigations, logging, reports

Partners in mahogany crime

Publication date: 
25 October, 2001

Amazon at the mercy of 'gentlemen's agreements'

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Article tagged as: amazon, brazil, illegal logging, investigations, mahogany, reports
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