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Victory again: Huge Amazon area protected

Posted by admin — 14 February 2006 at 9:00am - Comments

Greenpeace activists block an illegal road in Para State, Brazil

Just one week after the excellent news about the Great Bear Rainforest comes another stunning victory with the announcement that a huge area of the Amazon rainforest will be protected from destructive logging.

Article tagged as: amazon, brazil, forests, protected areas

One year after nun's murder, Amazon communities are still under threat

Posted by admin — 13 February 2006 at 9:00am - Comments

A boy stands among the crosses erected to commemorate the first anniversary of the murder of Sister Dorothy Stang

On 12 February 2005, Sister Dorothy Strang was assassinated for defending the rights of rural workers in the Amazon. For more than 30 years, she had campaigned against the human rights abuses and environmental degradation that continue to plague Pará State as the interests of the forest-dwelling communities are disregarded in favour of land-grabbers, ranchers and loggers.

Article tagged as: amazon, brazil, destructive logging, dorothy strang, forests

Enormous reserve protected from chainsaws in Canada

Posted by admin — 7 February 2006 at 9:00am - Comments

A grizzly bear swimming in the waters of Knight Inlet, British Columbia

It's rare that success comes on such a scale so this is one worth celebrating. The provincial government of British Columbia in Canada has announced the protection of 2 million hectares of ancient forest with strict ecological management for the rest.

Article tagged as: canada, forests, great bear rainforest, protected areas, successes

The 'Save or Delete' art exhibition

Posted by admin — 2 February 2006 at 9:00am - Comments

The successful Greenpeace 'Save or Delete' art and photography exhibition, featuring exclusive works by some of the world's best known international graphic artists such as Pete Fowler, Mike Gillette and Jasper Goodall, toured across the UK between autumn 2005 and spring 2005.

Article tagged as: art, exhibitions, forests, pete fowler, save or delete

Friday the 13th

Posted by jamie — 13 January 2006 at 9:00am - Comments

The UK is not on track to reduce our contribution to climate change with CO2 emissions actually increasing in the last two years. Tony Blair has found himself in a vulnerable and unenviable position, desperately seeking a solution. The nuclear industry's lobbyists, equally desperate to revive their dying trade, have found rich pickings in the Prime Minister's situation. Blair seems to have frantically seized upon nuclear power as the default solution to climate change.

Article tagged as: nuclear power, terrorism, videos

Nuclear power and energy security

Posted by bex — 5 January 2006 at 9:00am - Comments

The Budget: a chance to combat climate change

The UK will shortly become a net importer of gas, as the North Sea fields which have given us over 20 years of self-sufficiency finally begin to run dry; production is decreasing so that we are now a net importer, rather than a net exporter. The recent attempt by the Russian Government, Europe's major gas supplier, to hike the price of the gas it supplies to neighbouring Ukraine (the first step on the pipeline route to Western Europe) has led to intense media speculation over the security of supplies to the UK - in effect the argument is that since we cannot rely on a stable supply of gas, we should press ahead with a new generation of nuclear power plants which would guarantee energy security.

Article tagged as: climate change, decentralised energy, energy security, gas, nuclear power

Kyoto protocol stronger after Montreal meeting

Posted by bex — 12 December 2005 at 9:00am - Comments

Frozen droplets coming down from antartic ice

World at last taking threat seriously, despite Bush

"How often does one walk into one of these things and come out at the end of it at six in the morning with just about everything you asked for coming in? Not very often." That was Greenpeace climate campaigner Steve Sawyer's reaction at the end of the Climate summit in Montreal.

Article tagged as: climate change, george bush, kyoto protocol, montreal

Fight back begins against Blair's nuclear plans

Posted by bex — 29 November 2005 at 9:00am - Comments

A climber at the CBI conference holds a banner reading NUCLEAR: WRONG ANSWER

This morning Greenpeace climbers scuppered Blair's nuclear announcement by delaying the Prime Minister's planned pro nuclear speech at the CBI annual conference.

Two Greenpeace climbers scaled the ceiling above the speakers podium holding banners saying 'nuclear - wrong answer' and then dropping down 'radioactive' confetti preventing Blair from speaking in the main gallery.

Article tagged as: CBI, climate change, direct actions, nuclear power, tony blair

UK government makes 'clear-cut' decision on timber

Posted by admin — 29 November 2005 at 9:00am - Comments

In July 2000 the UK government introduced a policy requiring all of its departments and agencies to 'actively seek' to buy timber from legal and sustainable sources. Given that central government procurement accounts for approximately 15 per cent of timber used in the UK (and that the broader public sector may account for as much as 40 per cent), this was seen as a positive move to push the wider UK timber market towards environmentally and socially responsible sources.

Article tagged as: certification schemes, CPET, CSA, forests, FSC, government, illegal timber, MTCC, PEFC, SFI

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