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A group of young people from Greater Manchester have been inspired to think more about activism and to challenge the UK’s damaging industrial food system through taking part in a project initiated by Manchester-based artist Fauziya Johnson [1]. Fauziya’s aim was to facilitate discussions with young people to learn…
Biodiversity is one of the most important ideas for anyone who cares about the natural world. Let's explore what it means, and why it matters for all of us.
Greenpeace volunteers are blocking a palm oil refinery belonging to the world’s largest palm oil trader, Wilmar International
At Tuesday evening’s press conference, Boris Johnson said consumers would be key to holding companies and financial institutions to account on deforestation “even if governments do break the pledges that they’re making” as part of the COP26 Declaration On Forests And Land Use.
New film sees Greenpeace and schoolchildren unite to help save Rang-tan
An allotment-sized living artwork called The Waiting List was guerrilla-planted by volunteers at a disused Tesco-owned site in Litherland, just north of Liverpool, this morning in an act of defiance against the industrial food industry. Made of seed paper and embedded with ash from…
The Amazon is under unprecedented attack. Agricultural expansion is once again driving burning. 2021 has seen some of the worst fires in history, with potentially catastrophic consequences for the integrity of the Amazon biome and the survival of its Indigenous Peoples. In Brazil, the Congress is currently considering new legislation that would legalise illegal land grabbing in the Amazon.
Berlin, Germany, 24 October 2019 – Today, Indigenous leaders targeted CEOs and senior management of some of the world’s biggest brands, including Nestle, Unilever and Mondelēz, at a summit in Berlin, to demand they end their role in forest destruction in the Amazon and across Brazil. …
Sônia Guajajara, executive coordinator of Brazil’s Indigenous movement APIB, issued a warning to world leaders at COP26: involve Indigenous Peoples and reject false solutions – or fail all humanity, and all life on Earth. Here's her speech in full.
Dear Ken Murphy, You may have read earlier this week the Independent’s investigation revealing that global meat companies are “routinely underreporting emissions, undermining climate science and casting doubt on plant-based alternatives”. This comes just days after research published in…
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Manaus, 01 July 2022 – Official data published today by the Brazilian Space Agency INPE shows 2,562 fire hotspots have been recorded in the Amazon during the month of June, the highest level since 2007 [1]. The fire hotspots…
A jaguar’s forest home is being burned to grow animal feed for the meat industry. If we don't act, more precious habitats will be destroyed, Indigenous people could lose their homes, and we’ll lose the fight against climate change.
COP26 today saw a flurry of announcements on forests – among them a new agreement between governments, including Brazil, to halt and reverse deforestation by 2030. But Greenpeace slammed the announcement as a green light for another decade of forest destruction. Responding from Glasgow to the announcement, Greenpeace Brazil executive…
Boris Johnson lied to the public over commitments made to the Paris Agreement