June 2005

Amazon soya king receives Golden Chainsaw award

Posted by admin — 20 June 2005 at 8:00am - Comments

Brazilian TV presenters about to award the 'Golden Chainsaw' to soya king Blairo Maggi

 

Thanks to the over 30,000 international web supporters who voted in our web poll, Blairo Maggi, the world's biggest soya farmer and governor of the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso, was awarded the 'Golden Chainsaw Award' by Greenpeace last week.

A clear winner with over 37 per cent of the vote, Maggi came ahead of Brazilian President Lula da Silva, recently criticized for failing to stem the level of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest.

Article tagged as: agriculture, amazon, blairo maggi, brazil, forests, golden chainsaw, soya

No respite for Finland's ancient forests

Posted by admin — 16 June 2005 at 8:00am - Comments

Female bear and her young in old-growth Finnish forest

Metsähallitus, the Finnish state-owned logging company, has unilaterally terminated all negotiations with the Sami reindeer herding co-operatives and has said that the logging moratorium on 90,000 hectares of important reindeer grazing forests is over. Logging could restart as early as August.

Article tagged as: destructive logging, finland, metsahallitus, sami, stora enso

NIREX reveals location of potential nuclear waste sites

Posted by bex — 10 June 2005 at 8:00am - Comments
Nuclear waste flasks

Nuclear waste flasks

Article tagged as: nirex, nuclear dump sites, nuclear power, nuclear waste

Land Rover forecourts targeted in first national day of action against 4x4s

Posted by bex — 4 June 2005 at 8:00am - Comments

A Greenpeace volunteer on the Land Rover forecourt


Teams of Greenpeace volunteers took action this morning to disrupt sales of some of the most gas guzzling 4x4s on sale at Land Rover dealerships in seven major cities across the UK. The activity kicked off the first national day of action against 4x4s.

Article tagged as: 4x4s, climate change, direct actions, fuel efficiency, land rover, road transport, transport