There's further bad news for Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) as yet more companies around the world ditch their contracts with the unscrupulous forest-trashing company. Hot on the heels of Mattel and Lego, today Hasbro announced a new paper-buying policy.
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28 October 2011 at 5:50pm -
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Remember the photoshoot we staged outside a fashion industry event in Italy? The one reminding companies that make and use leather that the Amazon is not for walking over? Here's a great little video which I neglected to post last week, showing our models strutting their stuff for the rainforest.
Hot air balloon rises over Manaus in the Amazon, bearing the message 'Stop the chainsaws'
Stephanie Goodwin, a Greenpeace forest campaigner based in Brazil, blogs from the heart of the Amazon.
Almost one year ago to the day, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff said something that made a lot of sense: “Brazil can expand its agricultural production without cutting.”
I agree. One year later, however, the president appears more focused on
infrastructure projects that will cause further deforestation, rather
than to stop it.
Deported while working to expose Asia Pulp and Paper's lies and greenwash about deforestation
Until two days ago, I was in Indonesia.
I'd travelled there to work with colleagues in Jakarta
and Sumatra on our continuing campaign to end
the devastation of the country's magnificent rainforests.
But after an extremely intense few days, I
left the country prematurely on Wednesday evening. I had been due to stay
longer and had a business visa to allow me to do that, but the advice we were
receiving was that if I stayed it was
likely to bring more risk to my colleagues working there.
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19 October 2011 at 12:00am -
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Italian fashion: stylish and sophisticated, but
unfortunately may be linked to the destruction of the Amazon rainforest. As
cattle ranching is responsible for about 80 per cent of deforestation in Brazil, it is
likely that Brazilian shoe leather comes from areas of cleared rainforest. So a
team of Greenpeace activists have set up an alternative photoshoot today
outside a major industry event in Italy to remind the world's shoe and leather
companies that we can't walk all over the Amazon.
If deforestation isn't halted in Indonesia, Sumatran elephants face an uncertain future
I’ve been working with Greenpeace
for more than 20 years and until now I had never been deported from any country.
Until last week, that is, when I tried to enter Indonesia to spend time with
our staff in Jakarta in support of their work against deforestation.
Changes to Brazil's Forest Code could undermine progress made by the soya industry against deforestation
It should be a day to
celebrate. It’s now five years since the sound of chainsaws in the Amazon went
from a roar to a whisper. Some of you will have even helped to make this
incredible result possible. But a change to Brazil's forest laws threatens to
undermine this fantastic progress.
Have visa, can't travel: John Sauven was due to visit deforested areas in Sumatra
In a bizarre turn of events usually
seen in a John le Carré novel, the executive director of Greenpeace UK has been refused entry into Indonesia. Arriving at Jakarta's international
airport earlier today, John Sauven
was blocked from entering the country by immigration officials and is being deported, despite obtaining
a business visa without any problems. What on earth's going on?
