Saving Indonesia's rainforests
Indonesia's rainforests are a biodiversity hotspot, rich in endemic species, and vital in regulating the Earth's climate. But these forests are being torn down for palm oil, pulp and paper plantations - making Indonesia the world's third largest greenhouse gas emitter and threatening endangered species such as orang-utans with extinction. Greenpeace is campaigning globally to protect Indonesia's rainforests.
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Campaign updates
Dove leads the onslaught(er)
A couple of videos that throw our new Dove campaign into sharp relief. The first is a rather stonking effort from our international office, taking Dove's own...
Orang-utans swing into action to stop Dove destroying rainforests for palm oil
Today, we're launching the next stage in our campaign to protect the rainforests of Indonesia from the expansion of the palm oil industry. Our volunteers,...
How Unilever Palm Oil Suppliers Are Burning Up Borneo
In November 2007, Greenpeace released Cooking the Climate, an 82-page report summarising the findings of a two-year investigation that revealed how
the world’...
Palming us off
This blog by Andy Tait, our biodiversity campaign manager, first appeared on Comment Is Free.
As the Guardian reports, scientists from the Smithsonian...
"No money, no forests, no climate, no future"
At a side meeting of the Bali climate change conference today, Greenpeace launched
a new proposal that will encourage and reward countries for reducing...
