The Greenpeace flagship, Rainbow Warrior, sailed into the Indonesian province of Papua for the first time today as part of a global campaign to help protect the world's last ancient forests.
Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, February 28, 2006 Greenpeace today launched a major initiative to help protect Asia Pacific's last remaining ancient rainforests - the so-called 'Paradise Forests' [1] - by unveiling its Global Forest Rescue Station in a remote part of Papua New Guinea.
THE PLAYFAIR PROJECT in Edinburgh and the North Edinburgh Arts Centre were today declared 'Forest Crime Scenes' by Greenpeace for using timber from the endangered rainforests of South East Asia and Africa in recent construction work, which was funded with over £10million of National Lottery money.
Greenpeace today called for an inquiry into how timber from endangered rainforests is being used in National Lottery funded construction work at the National Maritime Museum, Swansea.
Asda, Marks and Spencer and John Lewis' garden furniture pushing orang-utans towards extinction
GARDEN FURNITURE SOLD by Asda, Marks and Spencer and John Lewis is made from trashed rainforest timber and is responsible for pushing endangered animals such as the orang-utan further towards extinction, according to Greenpeace today (29 May 2004).
Posted by admin — 27 May 2004 at 8:00am
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Responsibility lies with the major markets, such as the UK. The UK is the largest EU importer of Indonesian plywood.
UK companies peddle illegal goods Travis Perkins and Jewson both purchase large quantities of Indonesian plywood. They are trading in products they know come from illegal and destructive logging of rainforests.
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.
Greenpeace today demanded that the Belgian Government seize a huge cargo ship in the port of Antwerp loaded with timber from Indonesia's rainforests where logging is threatening the survival of orang-utans and tigers. Greenpeace boarded the ship at 15:00 hrs this afternoon in an attempt to stop it delivering its cargo to the Belgian port of Antwerp. Greenpeace researchers have been tracking the cargo ship since it was loaded with rainforest timber in Indonesia in early February.
