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
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...
Indonesia gets its own climate change camp
Climate change and deforestation are inextricably linked. Forest
destruction contributes around one-fifth of all man-made greenhouse gas
emissions, more...
Biofuels: government policy is failing
Back in May we launched a campaign to introduce controls on the way biofuels are produced. We argued that without minimum standards to control production,...
Biofuels: green dream or climate change nightmare?
As you may have already seen, along with WWF, the RSPB, Friends of the Earth and enoughsenough.org, we've placed an advert in several of today's papers...
Merbau's Last Stand
This report warns that the tropical hardwood species merbau (or kwila) will be extinct within 35 years or less if action is not taken to stop the destructive...
