Posted by jamie — 18 August 2010 at 5:03pm
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The third and fourth films documenting Inception star Marion Cottilard's journey to the Congo see her head out into the rainforest.
After meeting her hosts in Oshwe and the local forestry administration, she follows Greenpeace campaigners to see timber the loggers have left behind. Despite including sizeable tree trunks, they've been abandoned because they won't fetch enough money to make it worth the effort.
Posted by jamie — 8 July 2010 at 9:21am
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Wahey, you've scored
another victory! After receiving nearly 10,000 emails (and seeing
some excellent
spoof adverts), HSBC has sold its shares in Sinar Mas,
one of the worst companies responsible for ripping up the Indonesian
rainforest for palm oil and pulp plantations. It's fantastic news (as The Guardian was quick to agree) that has
shone a light on the financial side of deforestation. And you made
this happen - thanks!
Orang-utans and tigers are being pushed towards extinction by pulp and paper giant APP, according to a new report released today by Greenpeace.
The report documents the areas on the Indonesian island of Sumatra where APP, part of the notorious Sinar Mas group, are destroying the rainforest.
Among the areas is the Bukit Tigapuluh Forest Landscape, which is one of the last remaining rainforest homes of the critically endangered Sumatran tiger and home to the only successful re-introduction program for the Sumatran orangutan.
Posted by jamie — 19 May 2010 at 2:06pm
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The good news just keeps on coming. Our Canadian colleagues (including several working here in London) are thrilled about a new, far-reaching agreement between campaign groups and logging companies which should see vast areas of the country's Boreal forest protected. As detailed on our international site:
"Today the biggest, most ambitious forest conservation deal ever has been announced: the Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement. After more than seven years of hard-fought campaigning to end the on-going destruction of Canada's Boreal Forest, Greenpeace and eight other non-governmental organisations have agreed to a truce with the logging industry: we will suspend the battle for the Boreal.
Posted by jossc — 16 December 2009 at 1:22pm
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This blog by Greenpeace US webbie Mike Gaworecki first appeared yesterday on the Climate Rescue weblog.
Discussions at these climate talks are often in a highly specialized language that some of us like to call 'alphabet soup' – because it is conducted almost entirely in acronyms. One such cup o' soup we’ve been hearing a lot about lately is REDD, which stands for "Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation." So I thought I'd give you an as-brief-as-possible update on where the negotiations on REDD are at, and what we're pushing for.
The global sportswear company Nike has announced that it
is to stop buying leather from the Amazon region of Brazil,
following concerns that its shoes and trainers could be driving the destruction
of the world's largest rainforest and contributing to climate change.
