Blogposts tagged 'Investigations'

Amazon deforestation expands into previously intact areas

Posted by andrem - 14 July 2011 at 12:15pm - 1 Comment

These aerial photos, taken on 29 and 30 June 2011, show new areas of deforestation in previously intact areas of the Amazon rainforest. The two insets are satellite images showing before and after the deforestation had occurred. Campaigner Andre Muggiati was aboard the plane when these photos were taken.

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A Greenpeace investigation into illegal and destructive logging

Publication date: 30 April, 2001

All three international companies targeted by Greenpeace's Amazon campaign in Brazil - Malaysian based WTK/Amaplac, Eidai from Japan and French based Lapeyre - have shifted ground as a result of campaign work carried out over the last six months.

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A Greenpeace investigation into illegal and destructive

Article tagged as: amazon, destructive logging, illegal logging, investigations, reports, timber trade

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Investigation into criminal imports of timber into the UK

Publication date: 21 March, 2007

Behind closed doors: A major Greenpeace investigation

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Investigation into criminal imports of timber into the UK

Article tagged as: amazon, investigations, logging, timber trade, UK

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Protect the Amazon not the criminals

Publication date: 25 October, 2001

Mahogany report UK summary

On-the-ground investigations by Greenpeace in the Brazilian Amazon have documented damning new evidence of the truth behind the glamorous image of mahogany. Two mahogany kings now largely control the illegal mahogany trade in Pará State the major point of export for mahogany in Brazil. Moisés Carvalho Pereira and Osmar Alves Ferreira are ruthless and corrupt. More than 70% of the direct exports of mahogany from Pará to the UK came through companies connected to these two kings...

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