Protect forests
The Earth's ancient forests form some of the most diverse ecosystems known to science and are vital in regulating the world's climate. But eighty per cent of them have already been destroyed or degraded, and the remaining forests are under threat. Greenpeace is working to end illegal and destructive logging of the world's ancient forests, and to protect the rights of the indigenous peoples and species that depend on them.
Campaign updates
Investigating deforestation for soya in the Amazon
In February this year, I went to the Amazon to help monitor
new deforestation for soya and to make a film to document it. Flying over the
forest frontier and...
Occupying an anchor chain to protest deforestation in Brazil
Right now Greenpeace activists have attached themselves to the anchor
chain of a massive cargo ship here in Sao Luis, at the mouth of the Amazon. As
long as...
Where's the forest protection in APP's ‘new’ forest protection policy?
This morning in Jakarta APP invited journalists to the launch of what it’s PR people grandly referred to as the ‘biggest announcement yet’ which would ‘reveal...
Why has APP hired Mandelson, Prince of Darkness?
A Guardian investigation has revealed that Asia Pulp and Paper has
contracted the former EU trade commissioner Lord Peter Mandelson (aka The Prince of Darkness...
Rainbow Warrior in the Brazilian port city of Belem
The Rainbow Warrior is moored in the port city of Belem, here at the
mouth of the Amazon river in Brazil. It’s a historic city, over 400
years old, which was...
