illegal logging

Danzer crime file (2nd edition)

Last edited 30 November 2004 at 9:00am
Publication date: 
30 November, 2004

Summary

In June 2004, Greenpeace published an initial report outlining how the Swiss-based Danzer Group had been knowingly financing illegal logging in Africa. Now we've obtained additional evidence of further unscrupulous behaviour - including suspected forgery and carrying out business dealings with an arms trafficker who is blacklisted by the UN Security Council.

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Work suspended on Scotland's premier lottery project following rainforest timber scandal

Last edited 10 September 2004 at 8:00am
Greenpeace volunteers st up a 'forest crime scene' at Kelvingrove Art Museum in Glasgow

Greenpeace volunteers st up a 'forest crime scene' at Kelvingrove Art Museum in Glasgow

Glasgow Council officials today ordered contractors to stop work replacing hardwood floors during the Lottery funded refurbishment of Kelvingrove art gallery and museum, after nearly 100 Greenpeace activists invaded the site to expose the use of endangered rainforest timber.

Greenpeace forest campaigner Belinda Fletcher said,

"We are delighted that Kelvingrove art gallery and museum has agreed to suspend the contract for flooring after endangered rainforest timber was found on the site. We will be working closely with Kelvingrove to ensure that the rest of the timber used comes from legal and sustainable sources such as that certified by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC)."

Article tagged as: forests, hachette, illegal logging, timber trade

Danzer crime file

Last edited 29 August 2004 at 8:00am
Publication date: 
21 June, 2004

Summary

A Greenpeace investigation has revealed the Danzer Group, a Swiss-German company, have been involved in bribery and illegal logging and are suspected of forgery in Cameroon and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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Article tagged as: africa, danzer group, illegal logging, reports

Greenpeace and Q magazine make beautiful music

Last edited 3 June 2004 at 8:00am
Help stop the trade in illegal mahogany

Help stop the trade in illegal mahogany

Article tagged as: amazon, forests, illegal logging, mahogany

US Judge dismisses Ashcroft attempt to shut down Greenpeace

Last edited 20 May 2004 at 8:00am
20 May, 2004

UNITED STATES/Miami, Florida

In a stunning setback to the Bush administration's attempt to shut down Greenpeace, a Federal Judge in Miami has dismissed the US government's case against us for exposing illegal mahogany shipments.

Article tagged as: amazon, forests, illegal logging, press releases

EU trashes Indonesian rainforests

Last edited 10 May 2004 at 8:00am

Timber from trashed Indonesian rainforests is being used in new EU buildings in Brussels, threatening the survival of the orang-utan and the Sumatran tiger.

Greenpeace investigators discovered that both the home of the EU - the Berlaymont - and the Economic and Social Committee building use Indonesian rainforest plywood for walls and flooring. The plywood was supplied by companies known to have been trading in illegal timber.

Article tagged as: berlaymont, EU, forests, illegal logging, indonesia, press releases

Dutch book publishers pledge to save forests

Last edited 27 April 2004 at 8:00am
27 April, 2004

Readers in the Netherlands will soon be able to buy fiction titles safe in the knowledge that they are not contributing to the destruction of the world's ancient forests. We're planning to make sure book lovers in the UK can do the same.

Fourteen Dutch publishers - representing 75% of the Dutch fiction book market - have recently committed to working with Greenpeace to switch their paper supply to recycled and Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certified paper.

Article tagged as: forests, illegal logging, press releases

Illegal timber gets police escort

Last edited 18 March 2004 at 9:00am

Activists try to board the MV Greveno to protest against ancient forest destruction

Greenpeace climbers attempt to board MV Greveno to protest against illegal logging in Indonesia and Papue New Guinea.

Article tagged as: forests, illegal logging, indonesia, PNG

Forest Crime: Korindo and the trade in illegal plywood from the last rainforests of Indonesia

Last edited 16 March 2004 at 9:00am
Publication date: 
21 March, 2007

Publication date: March 2004

Summary
Illegal logging continues to play a huge part in the destruction of the world's ancient forests. Its impacts are devastating: contributing to loss of biodiversity; linked to human rights abuses and organised crime; impacting on the sustainable development of forest producing countries; and undermining the trade in timber from legal and sustainable sources. The World Bank estimates that some US $10-15 billion per annum is lost to Governments each year because of the illegal trade in timber.

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Stop forest crime and support activists in the Amazon

Last edited 2 December 2003 at 9:00am

Three hundred loggers from Porto de Moz in the Amazon surrounded our ship, the MV Arctic Sunrise, earlier this week. Local forest activists were also threatened.

Greenpeace has been exposing illegal logging in the region. Prior to the attack, we discovered a barge full of illegal logs in a remote riverside harbour. Activists painted "Crime" on 6,000 cubic metres of logs.

Article tagged as: amazon, forest crime, forests, illegal logging, press releases