Paulo's amazing work in the Amazon has been recognised by the UN
Paulo Adario, who heads up our Amazon campaign, may not be your archetypal hero (we’ve never seen him don a pair of tights) but we’re proud to announce that he has just been awarded the honour of Forest Hero by the UN.
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2 December 2011 at 10:08am -
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The big question
that currently hangs over climate talks in Durban is whether or not the politicians will
agree to sign a legally binding treaty by 2015 with
mandatory emissions cuts. But the devil will be in the details, and management
consultants pushing bad advice could have a big impact on our climate and
rainforests.
There's further bad news for Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) as yet more companies around the world ditch their contracts with the unscrupulous forest-trashing company. Hot on the heels of Mattel and Lego, today Hasbro announced a new paper-buying policy.
Biruvi Deni demarcating Amazon Deni lands to protect it from illegal logging with help from Greenpeace.
September 11, 2001 was not only a day of major tragedy in the US that changed the world we are living in, it was also a day of hope for the
Deni. The Deni are an indigenous group living in semi-isolation in a
very remote part of the Brazilian Amazon rainforest. At that time their land was sold illegally to a logging company without their knowledge.
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14 July 2011 at 11:15am -
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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.
It's July so the last thing any
sane person will be thinking about is Christmas. Not so for those in the toy
business because, with only 165 shopping days to go, they're looking ahead to
the festive season.
Take Hasbro, for instance. Today,
product and marketing managers have been showing off the new lines for
Christmas to retailers and journalists and we thought we'd pop along as well.
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12 July 2011 at 9:16am -
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Our Barbie campaign has struck a cord with many people and when you realise how ridiculous it is that rainforest timber ends up in disposable toy packaging, it's not surprising. It's also not surprising that it's having an effect on the ultimate end users of Mattel's products – kids.
Some of the Chainsaw Barbies that have been apprehended
All over the country,
Chainsaw Barbies are being searched out and snapped up as part of our Barbie
treasure hunt. St Ives, Hexham, Dundee, Malvern, Scarborough, Newtown, Loughborough
– they've all been invaded by malevolent mannequins who, not content with
savaging Indonesia's rainforests, have gone awol across the UK.
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10 June 2011 at 3:27pm -
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Barbie's lesser known other-half grabbed headlines this week, after he launched our latest forest campaign on Tuesday night - scaling the 15 stories of Mattel's HQ in Los Angeles, to unveil our banner, with the help of blue tux wearing pals, that read simply: "Barbie, It's over."
Deforestation could increase in the Congo due to McKinsey advice
In her blog post last week, my colleague
Tracy explained why Greenpeace has taken on one of the big beasts of the corporate
jungle: the consultancy firm McKinsey. These guys are at the top of
the tree when it comes to advising governments on forests, so we’ve published a
report investigating them called Bad Influence: How
McKinsey-inspired plans lead to rainforest destruction.
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