Blog: Forests

APP's sinking reputation forces more companies to jump ship

Posted by jamie - 1 November 2011 at 3:02pm - Comments
Logos of companies cancelling contracts with APP
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Companies who have recently ditched APP contracts

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.

VIDEO: These boots are made for walking (just not all over the Amazon)

Posted by jamie - 28 October 2011 at 5:50pm - Comments

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.

Rising high to tell Brazilian president to stop the chainsaws

Posted by jamie - 28 October 2011 at 2:00pm - Comments
Hot air balloon rises over Manaus in the Amazon, bearing the message 'Stop the c
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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.

Another Greenpeace campaigner kicked out of Indonesia for fighting APP's deforestation

Posted by andy.t - 21 October 2011 at 2:17pm - Comments
Deforestation in Sumatra, Indonesia by Sinar Mas supplier PT Arara Abadi
All rights reserved. Credit: Ulet Infansasti/Greenpeace
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.

Quebra de confiança

Publication date: 
19 October, 2011

Como a indústria da pecuária na Amazônia continua ligada ao desmatamento, ao trabalho escravo e à invasão de terras indígenas

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Broken Promises

Publication date: 
19 October, 2011

How the cattle industry in Amazon is still connected to deforestation, slave labour and invasion of indigenous land.

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Giving deforestation the boot at Italian shoe fair

Posted by jamie - 19 October 2011 at 12:00am - Comments

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.

Barred from Indonesia for working in support of president’s efforts to stop deforestation

Posted by John Sauven - 17 October 2011 at 3:35pm - Comments
Sumatran elephant
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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.

New Amazon forest law threatens progress made by soya agreement

Posted by sarah - 13 October 2011 at 4:26pm - Comments
Soya beans grown in an Amazon plantation
All rights reserved. Credit: Greenpeace / Daniel Beltrá
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.

Greenpeace director refused entry to Indonesia following smear campaign

Posted by jamie - 13 October 2011 at 11:38am - Comments
Deforestation near Bukit Tiga Puluh National Park, Sumatra
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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?

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