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MQP commits to go 'ancient forest friendly' over next 3 years

Posted by admin - 25 October 2004 at 8:00am - Comments

UK book publisher MQ Publications, have adopted an 'ancient forest friendly' procurement policy that commits the company to move all its books onto recycled and/or Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certified paper over the next three years. This follows our collaboration with them as part of the Greenpeace Book Campaign.

Article tagged as: book campaign, forests, FSC, mq publications, paper

Greenpeace film in line for prestigious film festival award

Posted by admin - 27 September 2004 at 8:00am - Comments

The Ancient Forests is a short film commissioned by Greenpeace, directed by Julien Temple and narrated by Ewan McGregor and Sir David Attenborough. In 2003 it appeared in selected cinemas and was also on general release accompanying 'About a Boy'.

Article tagged as: awards, destructive logging, forests, illegal timber, videos

National Lottery funds rainforest destruction

Posted by admin - 6 September 2004 at 8:00am - Comments

Letting Glasgow know what's going on inside Kelvingrove

Work on the National Lottery funded refurbishment of Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow, the most visited museum in the UK outside London, was halted today by almost 100 Greenpeace activists from the Forest Crime Unit exposing the use of rainforest timber in the project.

Article tagged as: forests, glasgow, illegal timber, kelvingrove, national lottery, scotland

National Lottery funds rainforest destruction

Posted by admin - 5 September 2004 at 8:00am - Comments
An activist with some FSC timber at Kelvingrove, Glasgow where illegal timber is being used in rennovations

At 7.30am, on September 6th, almost 100 activists from Greenpeace's Forest Crime Unit halted construction at the National Lottery funded refurbishment of Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow, the most visited museum in the UK outside London.

The volunteers removed packs of timber, which is being used for new flooring, and replaced it with timber certified by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), guaranteed to be come from environmentally and socially responsible sources. At the same time, four Greenpeace climbers scaled the front of the museum before dropping a banner reading 'The National Lottery: Funding Rainforest Destruction'.

Article tagged as: forests, FSC, glasgow, illegal timber, kelvingrove, national lottery, scotland

Partners in crime

Posted by admin - 27 May 2004 at 8:00am - Comments

Timber at Tilbury Docks

Responsibility lies with the major markets, such as the UK. The UK is the largest EU importer of Indonesian plywood.

UK companies peddle illegal goods Travis Perkins and Jewson both purchase large quantities of Indonesian plywood. They are trading in products they know come from illegal and destructive logging of rainforests.

Article tagged as: forests, illegal timber, indonesia

Bears can't bear BP

Posted by admin - 31 July 2000 at 8:00am - Comments

Polar bears are starving as climate change melts away the Arctic ice pack. BP plans to drill for oil the region.

While publicly BP is very concerned about climate change, it continues to add to the problem by following an aggressive policy of oil exploration. It is currently pushing ahead with the development of Northstar, the first ever offshore oil development in the Arctic.

Not only will the controversial Northstar project add to climate change, it also threatens up to a one in four risk of a major oil spill.

The stepping stones towards a Global Whale Sanctuary are already being laid

Posted by admin - 12 October 1999 at 8:00am - Comments

In 1979, three years before the historic moratorium decision, the IWC agreed to an Indian Ocean sanctuary. Fifteen years later, in 1994, Greenpeace was instrumental in securing an additional sanctuary in the Southern Ocean which covers all the waters around Antarctica, so ensuring that there can never be legal whaling again in the feeding grounds of three quarters of the world's whales.

"Not tonight, I've got a headache" threat to endangered species?

Posted by admin - 11 October 1999 at 8:00am - Comments

No New Oil

"Never trust a Government Minister" advises Government lawyer

Posted by admin - 11 October 1999 at 8:00am - Comments

This afternoon the Government confirmed what we always thought to be true that you can't trust what a Minister says. About five years ago a Minister stated that the Habitats Directive would be applied up to 200 miles offshore in order to protect all whales and dolphins. And despite the fact that this was said in a written statement to Parliament, the Government QC claimed that he got it all wrong and that Greenpeace couldn't rely on what he said.

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