What we're up to in June? Campaigns & Events

Protecting Indonesia's rainforests

by Ian Duff, biodiversity campaigner

This time, last year Greenpeace was in the middle of a campaign to stop Nestlé buying palm oil from Indonesia's biggest forest destroyer - Sinar Mas. Following a customer exodus (involving Nestlé, Burger King, Unilever and many others), the Sinar Mas palm oil arm finally announced it would meet Greenpeace's demands.

Whilst this is great news the Sinar Mas pulp and paper company - Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) - is still trashing forests to make paper for packaging, tissue, books and magazines - much of which is ending up in our shops. Whilst APP has already been the subject of almost 10 years of NGO attention, we hope our involvement can finally stop APP from clearing forests that are important tiger and orang-utan habitats.

You'll be hearing much more about Sinar Mas/APP and the companies they are selling to shortly and I very much hope you'll be able to get involved in what should be a very exciting campaign.

This campaign is due to start next week – and involves taking creative photographs and using social networking sites rather than the usual street campaigning.  If you would like more information, please get in touch.

John West: all alone as the last supermarket shifts

by Simon Clydesdale, biodiversity campaigner

More great news in the tinned tuna campaign - Morrisons has now committed to move to sustainable methods. This means all major UK supermarkets are now committed to FAD-free or pole and line tuna. This leaves John West as the only UK company still clinging to FAD deathtraps. They've received nearly 50,000 emails so far and the pressure continues to mount. We are in dialogue with John West, and their futile resistance to change looks increasingly shaky.

We are being asked to start actively campaigning again – and will organise something at our next monthly meeting on Monday June 20^th.

We’re at Ham Fair on 11^th June

Our normal mix of campaign information with fun games & activities for adults and children – help us with the stall (use the ‘Email Maria’ link) or just pop along and say hello on the day.