south america
Posted by jamie — 29 August 2007 at 10:39am
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There have been further developments in the Amazon. As we reported last week, Greenpeace Brazil published its investigation into deals between a Brazilian government agency and logging companies over areas of rainforest under the guise of a land settlement programme.
Posted by jamie — 23 August 2007 at 4:13pm
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Our exposé earlier this week about how a Brazilian government agency is handing out areas of the Amazon rainforest to logging companies under the guise of a land settlement programme has set the proverbial cat among the pigeons. The government, has been stressing that deforestation levels are falling but has also said it will launch a full investigation into the situation.
Andre Muggiati, one of our Amazon campaigners, has been doing a slew of interviews for the Brazilian and international media, including the main national radio station in Brazil where he was followed by Guilherme Kassel, the Minister for Rural Development who is responsible for the National Institute of Colonisation and Land Reform (Incra). An impromptu debate ensued during which Muggiati invited the minister to join him on a visit to Santarém to see for himself the impact these underhand deals are having on the rainforest.
Last edited 21 August 2007 at 4:01pm
An agency of the Brazilian Federal Government, which only days ago was celebrating reductions in Amazon deforestation, is allowing logging companies to destroy large areas of the rainforest by assigning them 'land settlements' for poor communities, according to an eight-month Greenpeace investigation(1).
Posted by jamie — 21 August 2007 at 10:18am
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It was almost too good to be true. When the Brazilian government announced last week that deforestation rates in the Amazon had dropped for the third year running, it was certainly a cause for celebration. But it now transpires that one of the government's own agencies is colluding with logging companies so they can gain access to areas of high-value timber that would otherwise be off limits.
Posted by jamie — 24 July 2007 at 4:13pm
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Memories of the giant chickens that invaded branches of McDonald's last year might be fading fast, but it's one year since a moratorium was agreed on buying soya from the Amazon rainforest. It was our chicken-led campaign that helped spur McDonald's and UK supermarkets into putting pressure on the soya traders in Brazil, who were trading in beans grown in newly deforested areas of the rainforest.
Last edited 24 July 2007 at 11:39am
As the largest remaining rainforest on the globe, the Amazon rainforest is one of the most diverse ecosystems in the world. It is vast, stretching across 7.8 million km2, 5 per cent of the Earth's surface and several South American countries. However, over 60 per cent lies within Brazil's borders, and it's here that we're focusing our efforts to protect this rainforest.
Posted by bex — 13 September 2006 at 8:00am
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It has facts, it has suspense, it even has Futurama clips: Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth launches in the UK today, bringing with it mind-blowing descriptions of the destruction facing earth unless we pull our acts together in the next 10 years.
Last edited 22 May 2006 at 8:00am
Cargill HQ shut down by four tonne soya dump
A global week of action against the world's largest privately-owned company hit the Surrey stockbroker belt this morning. Greenpeace volunteers arrived at the European Headquarters of commodities giant Cargill at 6am before dumping nearly four tonnes of soya over the vehicle entrance and chaining themselves to a locked gate across the only access road. The company has now closed the office and sent its 300 employees home.
Last edited 19 May 2006 at 8:00am
European companies urged to reject criminal cargo from Cargill
Sao Paulo/London, 19 May 2006
A team of climbers from the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise shut down Cargill's illegal soya export facility in the heart of the Amazon rainforest today. The soya, which is exported to Europe as animal feed, is grown in deforested areas of the Amazon rainforest.
Posted by admin — 2 May 2006 at 8:00am
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Soya farming is chewing up the Amazon rainforest at unprecedented rates as huge areas are cleared to make way for massive monoculture plantations. In the Name of Progress, a film produced by Greenpeace, illustrates the devastating effects that the booming soya market is having on the world's largest remaining rainforest.
