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Protect the Amazon not the criminals

Last edited 25 October 2001 at 8:00am
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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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Partners in mahogany crime

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

Amazon at the mercy of 'gentlemen's agreements'

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Greenpeace calls on UK government to seize mahogany as Brazilian government bans trade

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

Greenpeace investigation reveals trail of illegal destruction from the Amazon Indian lands to Harrods

Greenpeace today called on the UK Government to seize imports of Brazilian mahogany coming into UK ports and for retailers, including Harrods and the John Lewis Partnership, to immediately remove mahogany products from their stores.

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Deni Indians win legal right to their Amazon land

Last edited 22 October 2001 at 8:00am
22 October, 2001

Greenpeace commends the Deni for protecting their land from illegal logging

Manaus, Brazil, 18 October 2001: After a two year struggle supported by Greenpeace, Missionary Indigenist Council (CIMI), and Operacao Amazonia Nativa (OPAN), the Deni Indians of the Brazilian Amazon won formal recognition of their rights to their traditional land.

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Death threat to Greenpeace Amazon campaigner

Last edited 10 October 2001 at 8:00am
10 October, 2001
Paulo Adario, Greenpeace Amazon campaigner
Paulo Adario, Greenpeace Amazon campaigner

Greenpeace today vowed that a death threat to one of its campaigners would not deter the environmental organisation from working to protect the Amazon from destruction. A telephone call was made to a house where Greenpeace campaigners live and work in Manaus, in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon, threatening death to Paulo Adario, the Co-ordinator of Greenpeace's Amazon Campaign.

Paulo Adario said, "This is not only a threat against my life but, of greater importance, it is a threat to all people who campaign to protect the Amazon. It is clear that our recent work exposing illegal logging of mahogany in the Amazon is at the base of this threat. In Brazil it is well known that most of the mahogany trade is controlled by criminals, who for too long have been allowed to operate with impunity."

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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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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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UK volunteers help Amazon Indians cut boundary in forest to keep illegal loggers out of their land

Last edited 11 September 2001 at 8:00am
11 September, 2001

Greenpeace calls for demarcation of all Indian lands in the Brazilian Amazon

The Deni Indian community with help from UK volunteers today began to physically cut a border in the Amazon rainforest to demarcate their lands in a bid to protect their traditional territory from industrial exploitation. Without this demarcation the Deni lands would be vulnerable to land grabs by logging companies after the wealth of natural resources which belong to the Deni. This is only the second time that an Indian group has, without government assistance, demarcated their lands in the Amazon.

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The Amazon rainforest: history

Last edited 4 September 2001 at 8:00am
Illegal logging in the Amazon

Illegal logging in the Amazon

The world's ancient forests are in trouble. Only one fifth of original forest cover globally remains in large tracts, and almost half of that is under threat from activities such as mining, agriculture and, most importantly, commercial logging. Of the remaining ancient forests, the largest is the Amazon. The size of Western Europe - an area of 370 million hectares - the Brazilian Amazon alone comprises one third of the world's remaining tropical forests.

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Greenpeace demands zero deforestation by 2010

Last edited 18 June 2001 at 8:00am
Illegal logging in the Amazon

Illegal logging in the Amazon

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