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Greenpeace tells EU ministers: ban illegal timber now

Last edited 23 November 2005 at 9:00am
23 November, 2005

LUXEMBOURG: Greenpeace activists will today (24th October) send a clear message to EU agriculture and development ministers meeting in Luxembourg and Leeds (UK): that unless they prohibit illegal timber imports to the EU and support sustainable forest management globally, their efforts to stop illegal logging will not end rainforest destruction in the poorest regions of the world. Farm Ministers are due to reach a political agreement on voluntary measures to combat illegal logging and support forest governance reform in timber-producing countries [1].

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Greenpeace blockade government building with illegally imported timber

Last edited 19 October 2005 at 8:00am
19 October, 2005

Flagship Government offices were today (19th October) blockaded by Greenpeace in protest at the tonnes of illegal timber from the world's last rainforests that continues to flood into the UK.

The Government has known about the illegal trade for years, yet has failed to do anything to stop illegal timber entering the UK.

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GM Trial updates

Last edited 6 September 2005 at 8:00am
Trial defendants in Cardiff

Trial defendants in Cardiff

 

15 September 2005

The defence for the Greenpeace volunteers finished yesterday with testimonies from two further defendants. Nicole Cook and Huw Williams both boarded the Etoile and spent the duration of the action on deck.

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Buckingham palace fuels destruction of world's last rainforests

Last edited 5 June 2002 at 8:00am
5 June, 2002

Following a Greenpeace investigation, the environmental organisation today urged the Royal Family to launch an enquiry over "green" procurement guidelines for their buildings. The call follows revelations that the Queens Gallery in Buckingham Palace, re-opened as part of the Jubilee celebrations, has been renovated with wood from Africa's last remaining rainforests and the Brazilian Amazon.

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The Queens Gallery, Buckingham Palace: fuelling the destruction of the

Last edited 5 June 2002 at 8:00am
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21 March, 2007

Forest crime files

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Greenpeace takes government to high court over "illegal" timber imports

Last edited 29 May 2002 at 8:00am
29 May, 2002

Help to stop the trade in illegal mahogany

The Government goes to the High Court at 10.30am tomorrow, Thursday 30th May to defend itself against a legal challenge by Greenpeace over its failure to prevent illegal mahogany from the Brazilian Amazon rainforest being imported into the UK (1). 

The court case is the latest development in Greenpeace's campaign to end imports of illegally and destructively logged timber into the UK from the world's last remaining ancient forests. Currently around 60% of Britain's imports of tropical rainforest wood come from illegal sources.

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UK Amazon action

Last edited 29 October 2001 at 9:00am

UK Amazon action

Tilbury Docks - Greenpeace activists brand illegally logged timber

Greenpeace volunteers board ship to stop criminal timber imports and protect the Amazon rainforest

Article tagged as: amazon, illegal, logging

Protect the Amazon not the criminals

Last edited 25 October 2001 at 8:00am
Publication date: 
25 October, 2001

Mahogany report UK summary

On-the-ground investigations by Greenpeace in the Brazilian Amazon have documented damning new evidence of the truth behind the glamorous image of mahogany. Two mahogany kings now largely control the illegal mahogany trade in Pará State the major point of export for mahogany in Brazil. Moisés Carvalho Pereira and Osmar Alves Ferreira are ruthless and corrupt. More than 70% of the direct exports of mahogany from Pará to the UK came through companies connected to these two kings...

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Greenpeace volunteers board MV Enif

Last edited 9 October 2001 at 8:00am

Greenpeace volunteers board MV Enif

Greenpeace volunteers board the MV Enif to stop criminal timber imports

11.30am Tuesday, 6 Greenpeace volunteers boarded the MV Enif to stop criminal imports of wood from the Amazon rainforest.

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Greenpeace track down head of WTK in top London restaurant

Last edited 9 October 2001 at 8:00am

Greenpeace track down head of WTK in top London restaurant

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While Greenpeace volunteers continue to occupy the MV Enif to stop the unloading of a cargo of criminal plywood from the Amazon rainforest today. Greenpeace Amazon campaigners h

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