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Why I’ve dedicated my life to protecting the rainforests

“I feel like a new person, reborn, when I am in the forest,” Annisa Rahmawati smiles. While Annisa finds peace and a sense of purpose among the trees, she also works every day to protect huge swathes of forest in her homeland, where the sound of bulldozers is threatening to drown out the sound of… Read More

Annisa Rahmawati - 26th November 2018

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Black plastic: what’s the problem?

Black plastic is one of the most problematic forms of plastic you can find on supermarket shelves – but what makes this microwave meal tray favourite so bad? Any plastic food packaging that’s designed to be used once and then thrown away is not good news… Read More

Alice Hunter - 23rd November 2018

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Climbing to protect the planet

This week we scaled Mondelez’s HQ to take a clear message to the company’s bosses. They must stop destroying the Indonesian rainforest for dirty palm oil, because as the trees come crashing down, so do orangutan numbers. Every day we lose 25 orangutans. The world is talking about palm… Read More

Caitlin Jones - 22nd November 2018

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Why it’s a good idea to protect our underwater kelp forests

The Scottish Government has just announced it will block controversial proposals for a new industry into Scotland’s coastal waters – mechanical kelp dredging. But why do we care about kelp anyway? Kelp is the biggest and most abundant seaweed around our coasts. It’s found in cold seas around the world,… Read More

Willie Mackenzie - 20th November 2018

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The vital kit we need to stop environmental criminals

Our investigations team have a job no like no other. One week they might be uncovering data to stop oil drilling in the Arctic, and the next they might be tracking trucks suspected of illegal logging in the Amazon rainforest. The Investigations… Read More

Caitlin Jones - 20th November 2018

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