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Today in Kobe Harbour, Japan, four Greenpeace activists from the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior boarded and occupied the ship 'Manzanillo'. The ship is carrying 11 containers of plywood from the Amazon rainforest exported by the Japanese wood-products giant Eidai Inc. The activists raised banners in Japanese and English saying "Eidai, don't buy illegally logged timber", and "G-8: Stop Illegal logging."

Greenpeace has written to timber company WTK and its subsidiary Amaplac expressing serious concern over the company's failure to recognize their involvement in the illegal timber trade in the Brazilian Amazon.

The letter from Greenpeace was responding to claims by Amaplac that it has 'nevr purchased from unauthorised and illegal logging operations' (PTF release 5th July). This is clearly not correct. From 1998 to 1999, five of Amaplac's seven third party suppliers were fined for dealing in illegal timber and Amaplac itself has been fined three times.

Tuesday 4 June. Eight Greenpeace activists entered Aarhus harbour to reveal the import of 112 pallets of Amazonian plywood to Denmark. The activists stamped the plywood with a message 'Protect the Amazon - Stop Criminal Timber Imports' to highlight the fact that Denmark imports Amazonian wood from companies involved in illegal logging.

At 5.20am this morning 30 Greenpeace volunteers entered London's Tilbury Docks and painted a warning for UK buyers on pallets of criminal timber from the Amazon rainforest.

The Amazonian plywood came from the MV Enif, which Greenpeace volunteers occupied for more than 75 hours a fortnight ago, to prevent it unloading at Tilbury Docks.

27 June 4am, Final Outcome. At 4am the German police removed the last climber from the MV Enif. No arrests were made and everyone was released.
The seven 40ft containers (112 pallets) of Amaplac plywood are not destined for the German market and is due to be transporte to a small town in Denmark.

Hamburg 26 June 2000 - Greenpeace volunteers have for the second time stopped a shipment of Amazon timber on board the MV Enif.

Greenpeace climbers pass 72 hour landmark in vigil on criminal timber ship

Three Greenpeace volunteers were arrested today when police boarded the Greenpeace vessel Beluga as it lay alongside the criminal timber ship MV Enif. Ironically, one volunteer was arrested for criminal damage for daubing a small amount of white paint on the side of the MV Enif despite the fact that the ship contains 1700 tonnes of criminal timber from the Amazon. Greenpeace was attempting to rename the ship 'Amazon Crime'

Four Greenpeace volunteers today ended their vigil occupying the MV Enif at London's Tilbury docks in the face of a legal injunction from the owners of the ship. The volunteers were immediately arrested by police after climbing down from the top of a crane. The 75 hour vigil was the longest in the history of Greenpeace in the UK and was partt of a global campaign to stop the traffic in criminal timber from the Amazon rainforest. The volunteers are demanding that the ship's cargo of criminal rainforest plywood is returned to the Amazon.

Four Greenpace volunteers today began their second day of occupatio of the MV ENif to prevent it from unloading its cargo of criminal timber from the Amazon rainforest at London's Tilbury docks. The volunteers who have spent over 48 hours on top of the ship's crane, are demanding that the cargo of rainforest plywood is returned to the Amazon and donated to local communities from the areas where it was logged.

Six Greenpeace volunteers today began their second day of occupation of the MV Enif to prevent it from unloading its cargo of criminal timber from the Amazon rainforest at London's Tilbury docks. The volunteers, who have been in action since 11.30 am Tuesday, are demanding that the cargo of rainforest plywood is returned to the Amazon and donated to local communities from the areas where it was logged.

Boarding the MV Enif

At 11.30am today, 6 Greenpeace volunteers boarded the MV Enif to stop criminalimports of wood from the Amazon rainforest. The volunteers attached themselves to the bow of the ship in the Thames Estuary, north of Sheerness, to prevent it from unloading at London's Tilbury Docks.