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DEFRA offices blockaded with illegal timber

Posted by admin — 19 October 2005 at 8:00am - Comments

A Greenpeace activist chained to a pallet of illegal rainforest plywood at DEFRA

Shortly after 7.30 this morning, Greenpeace volunteers blockaded the entrance to the Department for the Environment,Food and Rural Affairs DEFRA offices on London's Millbank, in protest at the tonnes of illegal timber continuing to flood into the UK from the world's last rainforests.

Greenpeace boards ship importing rainforest destruction to Italy

Last edited 13 October 2005 at 5:51pm
13 October, 2005

Today (Rome - 11th October 2005) 30 Greenpeace activists boarded a ship carrying rainforest timber at the Italian port of Livorno. Eight activists, dressed as gorillas, climbed two of the ship's cranes to prevent its cargo from being unloaded.

The 'Guan He Kou' is carrying sawn timber from the Congo Basin, where widespread illegal logging is destroying the forest and driving gorillas and chimpanzees towards extinction. The rainforest is also home to millions of indigenous people who depend on the forest for their survival.

National Lottery Project

Posted by admin — 22 April 2005 at 8:00am - Comments

Letting Glasgow know what's going on inside Kelvingrove Art Gallery

Our campaign to stop National Lottery funded projects using endangered rainforest timber took another step forward on 21st March when the Heritage Lottery fund agreed to source all timber from legal and well-managed sources for projects they fund.

Orang-utans 'Go Ape' at Hereford garden centre

Last edited 29 March 2005 at 9:00am
29 March, 2005

25 March 2005
Orang-utans, accompanied by Greenpeace volunteers, are protesting at Wyevale garden centre's flagship store in Hereford due to the retailer's involvement in trashing endangered rainforests.

The orang-utans have unveiled a banner reading DON'T BUY WYEVALE GARDEN FURNITURE, while other protestors are distributing 'Lost Ape' leaflets to shoppers.

Garden Furniture Guide 2005

Posted by admin — 24 March 2005 at 9:00am - Comments

Following the success of our garden furniture work in 2004, we undertook new research in Spring 2005. This revealed that in their quest to supply garden furniture Wyevale, Britain's largest garden centre chain, were trashing endangered rainforests and helping to fund one of the most brutal military dictatorships in the world.

Greenpeace in the Amazon: helping the Deni Indians to protect their land from loggers

Posted by admin — 24 January 2005 at 9:00am - Comments

Deni Indians demarcarting their territory

In July 2003, a Greenpeace team helped the indigenous Deni Indian communities in the Amazon to demarcate their homeland. The land was under threat from a Malaysian logging company.

Boycott the Danzer Group!

Posted by admin — 1 December 2004 at 9:00am - Comments

Boycott the Danzer Group

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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Big victory for Amazon communities over extractive reserves

Last edited 10 November 2004 at 9:00am
10 November, 2004

Greenpeace today (1st November 2004) enthusiastically welcomed the signing of two official decrees by Brazilian President, Luis Inacio Lula da Silva, creating extractive reserves (RESEX) in the Brazilian Amazon.

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