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Amazon soya king receives Golden Chainsaw award

Posted by admin — 20 June 2005 at 8:00am - Comments

Brazilian TV presenters about to award the 'Golden Chainsaw' to soya king Blairo Maggi

 

Thanks to the over 30,000 international web supporters who voted in our web poll, Blairo Maggi, the world's biggest soya farmer and governor of the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso, was awarded the 'Golden Chainsaw Award' by Greenpeace last week.

A clear winner with over 37 per cent of the vote, Maggi came ahead of Brazilian President Lula da Silva, recently criticized for failing to stem the level of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest.

Article tagged as: agriculture, amazon, blairo maggi, brazil, forests, golden chainsaw, soya

The Book Campaign heads to Hay-on-Wye Festival

Posted by admin — 31 May 2005 at 8:00am - Comments

Tony Benn adds his signature in support of the Book Campaign

A team of staff and volunteers were busy working away at this year's Hay on Wye Book Festival - promoting the Greenpeace Book Campaign to the tens of thousands of authors, publishers and members of the general public who descend on Hay once a year for a feast of literary talks, films and workshops.

Article tagged as: authors, book campaign, forests, FSC, paper

MTCC rainforest certification scheme exposed as seriously flawed

Last edited 19 May 2005 at 8:00am
19 May, 2005

Greenpeace today (17th May 2005) released Missing Links, a report that identifies serious gaps in the certification standards of the Malaysian Timber Certification Council (MTCC), and highlighting its lack of credibility as a certifier of legal or environmentally responsible forest management.

Article tagged as: forests, MTCC, press releases, rainforests, south east asia

Trashing of the Amazon continues - highest year of forest destruction on record

Last edited 19 May 2005 at 8:00am
19 May, 2005

New Amazon deforestation figures released by the Brazilian Government yesterday evening (18th May 2005) showed that 26,130 square kilometres of rainforest were wrecked between August 2003 and August 2004, an area larger than Wales.

Article tagged as: amazon, brazil, deforestation, forests, lula, press releases, south america

National Lottery Project

Posted by admin — 22 April 2005 at 8:00am - Comments

Letting Glasgow know what's going on inside Kelvingrove Art Gallery

Our campaign to stop National Lottery funded projects using endangered rainforest timber took another step forward on 21st March when the Heritage Lottery fund agreed to source all timber from legal and well-managed sources for projects they fund.

Article tagged as: cardiff, forests, FSC, glasgow, illegal timber, kelvingrove, london, millenium stadium, national lottery, wembley stadium

Environmentally friendly garden furniture: a consumer guide

Last edited 8 April 2005 at 8:00am
A detail from the Garden Furniture Guide

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Some of Britain's best known retailers are selling garden furniture made from timber which has been illegailly logged from the world's rainforests. The Garden Furniture Guide is our website designed to help consumers ensure that the timber used in their garden products comes from environmentally and socially well-managed sources.

The site is arranged so that you can search by either brand or retailer. Product ranges are coded in either red, yellow or green depending on the source of the timber they use. By using your consumer power to purchase environmentally friendly alternatives, you can help us force manufacturers to stop sourcing their timber from trashed rainforests.

The only way you can ensure that your garden furniture hasn't come from old-growth rainforest is to buy products certified by the FSC (Forest Stewardship Council). Always look out for their logo, and buy with confidence.

Article tagged as: forests, FSC, garden furniture, shoppers guide

Misty's new 'Forest Soul' CD release raises money for Greenpeace

Last edited 6 April 2005 at 8:00am
6 April, 2005

A new CD from London singer songwriter Misty Oldland will raise money for Greenpeace. At least 50 pence from each album sold will be donated. As the title implies, 'Forest Soul' is a collection of 17 songs which creatively explore issues of conservation and spirituality, sampling the sounds of the rainforest and 23 'featured creatures,' most of which are endangered.

Misty's music on this latest album is influenced by her love of ancient forests and wildlife. Her style has been described as a mixture of jazz, soul and hiphop.

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Orang-utans 'Go Ape' at Hereford garden centre

Last edited 29 March 2005 at 9:00am
29 March, 2005

25 March 2005
Orang-utans, accompanied by Greenpeace volunteers, are protesting at Wyevale garden centre's flagship store in Hereford due to the retailer's involvement in trashing endangered rainforests.

The orang-utans have unveiled a banner reading DON'T BUY WYEVALE GARDEN FURNITURE, while other protestors are distributing 'Lost Ape' leaflets to shoppers.

Article tagged as: forests, FSC, garden furniture, illegal timber, north america, press releases

My journey with a remarkable tree

Last edited 24 March 2005 at 9:00am
24 March, 2005

31st March sees the launch of a new book by author Ken Finn. "My journey with a remarkable tree" documents the author's search for the fabled Spirit Trees of Cambodia. It is a journey that lays bare what's happening to the forests, wildlife and people of Cambodia and how that affects us.

Ken witnesses the destruction of spirit trees, 1000's of years old, by illegal loggers. He follows the tree's path from the forest, through the wood mill and processing plant and onto the shop floor as garden furniture for our homes. Along the way he witnesses first hand the systematic and thoughtless destruction of ancient forests for immediate economic gain, and the operations of a corrupt regime intent on turning diversity into monoculture, and forest into chipboard for quick profit.

Article tagged as: book campaign, cambodia, forests, FSC, illegal logging, ken finn, press releases