timber trade

Activists hit Travis Perkins stores across the UK

Last edited 16 June 2003 at 8:00am

On 14th June, Greenpeace volunteers from the 'Forest Crime Unit' visited twenty four Travis Perkins stores across the country.

At the Dalston store in East London, a crew of 8 people from the unit cordoned off the illegally logged Indoesian timber they identified. They found 19 crates of Barito Pacific ply in one section and quickly branded it a 'forest crime scene'. The volunteers then hung a banner which read 'Stop Rainforest Destruction'.

Greenpeace investigated Barito Pacific and revealed the company is dealing in illegally logged Indonesian timber.

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Indonesia's ancient rainforests

Last edited 9 June 2003 at 8:00am
Indonesia's rainforests face an uncertain future as illegal logging continues

Indonesia's rainforests face an uncertain future as illegal logging continues

Article tagged as: forests, illegal logging, south east asia, timber trade

Partners in Crime: summary

Last edited 4 June 2003 at 8:00am
Publication date: 
21 March, 2007

A Greenpeace investigation of the links between the UK and Indonesia's timber barons

Publication date: June 2003

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Article tagged as: forests, government, illegal logging, reports, timber trade

Greenpeace occupies new Home Office HQGovernment caught trashing Indonesia's last rainforests

Last edited 4 June 2003 at 8:00am
4 June, 2003

Wednesday 4th June, 2003 - London

At 6am this morning Greenpeace volunteers occupied the construction site of the new Home Office HQ at 2 Marsham Street, Westminster (1) and declared it an ancient forest crime scene. Eleven Greenpeace climbers scaled and occupied four huge cranes on the site and hung banners saying 'Rainforest Demolition Site'.

Article tagged as: forests, home office, illegal logging, press releases, timber trade

Partners in Crime

Last edited 4 June 2003 at 8:00am
Publication date: 
21 March, 2007

A Greenpeace investigation of the links between the UK and Indonesia's timber barons

Publication date: June 2003

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Article tagged as: illegal logging, indonesia, reports, timber trade, UK

Liberian 'conflict' timber faces trade ban

Last edited 7 May 2003 at 8:00am
7 May, 2003

7th May, 2003. Greenpeace today welcomed the United Nations Security Council's (UNSC) decision to end the role of the timber trade in fuelling the war machine of Liberian President Charles Taylor.

The UNSC decision, agreed last night, renewed existing embargoes on trade in arms and diamonds with Liberia and extended them to include a ban on all timber exports, with effect from 7th July 2003. The ban will affect trade in species including Liberian Azob, Sapelli, Iroko, African mahogany and African walnut'.

Article tagged as: illegal logging, press releases, timber trade, UN

Illegal logs seized after attack on peaceful Amazon protest

Last edited 19 September 2002 at 8:00am
19 September, 2002

Amazon rainforest protest against forest destructi

Two illegal logging barges carrying over two hundred logs have been impounded and the owner fined almost 200,000 Brazilian reals - nearly US$ 60,000, after a three-day river blockade mounted by Greenpeace activists and local community members in the Amazon to protest against forest destruction and demand the reation of an Extractive Reserve (1). 

Article tagged as: amazon, illegal logging, press releases, timber trade

X Games champion Bob Burnquist joins Greenpeace in the Amazon

Last edited 2 September 2002 at 8:00am
Xgames skateboard champion Bob Burnquist wife Jennifer shows their support for Greenpeace's forests campaign

Xgames skateboard champion Bob Burnquist wife Jennifer shows their support for Greenpeace's forests campaign

Article tagged as: amazon, celebrity support, forests, timber trade

SAVE or DELETE

Last edited 19 February 2002 at 9:00am
Publication date: 
30 September, 2001

A last chance to save the world's ancient forests

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Article tagged as: habitats, logging, reports, timber trade

Letter to the Heads of State of G8 countries

Last edited 29 October 2001 at 9:00am
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21 March, 2007

Publication date: July 2000

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Article tagged as: ancient forests, g8, government, illegal logging, timber trade