Blackburn doctor Reza Hossain is spending this week settling into his new home - the dense forests of Papua New Guinea. Reza flew across the world last Tuesday to join a Greenpeace camp trying to save the world-renowned Paradise Forests, which stretch from South East Asia, across the islands of Indonesia, on to Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands in the Pacific.
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.
The third annual league table shows how garden furniture retailers in the UK compare in terms of selling furniture made from sustainable timber. Some retailers have shown a marked improvement in ensuring their stock is certified by the Forest Stewardship Council while others still have work to do.
Note: The information provided in this league table is based on data provided by companies before May 2006. Please be aware that changes in company practices may have occurred since that time.
Posted by admin — 20 April 2006 at 8:00am
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Now in its third year, the Greenpeace Garden Furniture campaign has been shaking up retailers and manufacturers alike and resulted in sweeping changes to the industry.
Posted by admin — 20 April 2006 at 8:00am
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It's back - the guide that shows which retailers are stocking forest-friendly garden furniture and how they rate against each other in our annual league table.
A British summer beckons and thoughts turn to lazy days in the garden, sheltering from the rain under a parasol on elegant sun loungers whilst watching the barbeque splutter its dying embers over half-thawed sausages.
Posted by admin — 12 April 2006 at 8:00am
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During his visit to the UK to highlight the threat to the forests of Papua New Guinea, we caught up with Brian Baring for a quick chat about his European mission. Listen to Brian talk about life in the forests and what people in the UK can do to help stop the illegal logging.
This crime file follows the chain of rainforest destruction from the heart of the Amazon, where huge areas of forest are being cleared to plant soya, back to the UK, where McDonald's Chicken McNuggets are sold to millions of people every week.
New Greenpeace research shows how this soya is being fed to the chickens that you eat at places like McDonald's. We have documented thousands of tonnes of soya is being exported from the heart of the Amazon into the UK. The soya is then fed to millions of chickens in the farms that supply McDonald's. This means that every time you buy a Chicken McNugget you're taking a bite out of the Amazon.
Posted by admin — 30 March 2006 at 9:00am
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Brian Baring, a member of the Gingilang clan, hails from Papua New Guinea and has been involved in protecting the country's ancient forests for some time. His clan have been custodians of the land for thousands of years and are now legally the customary landowners.
