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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Images from a vanishing forest

Lately, I've been working a lot on our palm oil campaign, so my spider senses are highly atuned to anything coming out of Sumatra and Indonesia in general....
Posted by jamie - 13 November, 2007 - 15:01

Paradise lost?

Greenpeace volunteers constructing a dam to prevent valuable peatlands being drained © Greenpeace/Oka Budhi Belinda, senior forest campaigner at...
Posted by belinda - 12 November, 2007 - 17:24

Palm oil: once you pop, you can't stop

KitKat, Flora and Pringles are among the brands linked to destruction of forests and peatlands for palm oil © Greenpeace/Oka Budhi If, as you read this...
Posted by jamie - 8 November, 2007 - 10:55

Cooking the Climate

Every year, 1.8 billion tonnes (Gt) of climate changing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are released by the degradation and burning of Indonesia’s peatlands – 4...
Posted by jamie - 8 November, 2007 - 09:42

SOS Sumatra: saving the swamp forest from palm oil plantations

Last week, Jamie wrote about our Forest Defenders Camp in Sumatra, Indonesia: the frontline of where peatland forest is being cleared for palm oil plantations...
Posted by bex - 30 October, 2007 - 13:25

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