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Greenpeace catches Blair trashing ancient forests

Last edited 10 April 2002 at 8:00am
10 April, 2002

At 8am this morning Greenpeace volunteers entered the Cabinet Office in Whitehall and declared it an ancient forest crime scene - following an investigation which revealed the government was about to install hundreds of new doors and windows made of wood from Africa's last rainforests (1).

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Forest crime files: UK Government fuelling the destruction of Africa

Last edited 10 April 2002 at 8:00am
Publication date: 
21 March, 2007

Publication date: April 2002

Summary
The Cabinet Office refurbishment project is using more than £400,000 worth of sapele from Central and West Africa for doors and windows. Greenpeace has uncovered a chain of supply that ultimately links the UK Cabinet Office to a number of the most notorious international logging companies operating in Africa's last ancient forests all with records of unsustainable, destructive and illegal logging.

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Kilimanjaro set to lose its ice field by 2015 due to global warming

Last edited 6 November 2001 at 9:00am
6 November, 2001

Greenpeace sets up live video link between Kilimanjaro and international climate talks in Morocco

Mount Kilimanjaro, one of the few places in the world where ice and snow can be found on the equator, could lose its entire ice field by 2015 because of global warming, Greenpeace said today. This loss symbolises the fact that global warming may be felt first and hardest by the environment and people of Africa.

Article tagged as: africa, climate change, IPCC, kyoto protocol, press releases

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