Deforestation

Finders keepers: join our nationwide Chainsaw Barbie search

Posted by jamie — 10 June 2011 at 2:41pm - Comments

Ken may have been the one to dump Barbie, but you have exposed Mattel's role in destroying rainforests for cheap packaging. Over 150,000 emails have been sent to Mattel from around the world, but now it's time for something a bit different. Hundreds of Chainsaw Barbies have been hidden around the UK, and it's up to you to track them down. Game on!

Article tagged as: actions, activism, APP, barbie, Barbie hunt, deforestation, indonesia, Ken, mattel, rainforest, Scavenger Hunt, Treasure Hunt

Barbie gets dumped in London

Posted by jamie — 8 June 2011 at 1:14pm - Comments

The Barbie campaign has been unwrapped and is rolling around the world. Everyone's waking up to the fact that, as the Sun so eloquently put it, Barbie kills trees.

Article tagged as: actions, activism, APP, barbie, cohn and wolfe, deforestation, indonesia, Ken, mattel, rainforest

Amazon deforestation drops, but doesn’t stop

Posted by jamie — 3 December 2010 at 12:12pm - Comments
All rights reserved. Credit: Funari/Lineair/Greenpeace

You'll no doubt be pleased to hear that deforestation rates in the Amazon have fallen, according to figures from the government of Brazil. The National Institute for Space Research reported yesterday that just 6,451km2 of rainforest were felled between August 2009 and July 2010, a drop of 14 per cent on the previous year.

Article tagged as: amazon, brazil, deforestation, forest code, forests, rainforests, REDD
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