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Posted by bex — 10 July 2008 at 2:30pm
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Primary rainforest, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia. © Davison/Greenpeace
Regular visitors to our
website might have noticed that a few days ago, we launched a cyber action
against the Italian company Ferrero, a major user of palm oil and maker
of Nutella and Ferrero Rocher.
Well, we’re delighted to
report that, before we even had the chance to email our supporters about
it, we’ve had another success in the protection of Indonesia’s rainforests and
peatlands - and of the threatened species that live there and, of course, the climate.
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Greenpeace is committed to protecting the world's ancient forests and the life that they support by restricting destructive logging and industrial-scale farming. You can watch some of our latest campaign videos from around the world here. Scroll through the list by clicking the left and right arrows on either side of the 'playlist button'.
Please feel free to spread the word by embedding any of these videos in your own web pages, or emailing them to friends. You can find the code by clicking on the 'menu' button.
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Ancient forests around the world are in peril, but we can still save them. Governments and the timber industry need to understand what a crucial role they play in maintaining global biodiversity, not to mention how vital they are in regulating the climate, so they need to act now.
And as consumers, we can all help to save the forests. Making sure that the wood and paper we buy has come from well-managed sources (or, even better, is 100 per cent recycled) is something we can all easily do.
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As an international organisation, we can campaign to protect forests in two key ways. Firstly, we take action by investigating the scene of the crime in places like Indonesia and the Amazon, where destructive and illegal logging is taking place. Secondly, by exposing those responsible for destruction, we take action in consumer countries like the UK that are creating a demand for cheap wood and agricultural products.
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Ancient forests around the world are at risk from a range of man-made threats including destructive and illegal logging, agriculture and climate change. Unchecked, these will destroy the last remaining forests, possibly within our lifetimes. But there are ways we can avert the crisis and preserve what remains of these fragile landscapes.
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We are destroying ancient forests at an unprecedented rate. As demand for anything made from wood increases - whether it's books, furniture, construction materials or even toilet paper - we risk stripping away the last remaining ancient forest areas.
