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Breakthrough moment to end deforestation for palm oil

Posted by Nick Monro aka Dikson - 17th December 2018
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An aerial shot from a drone showing the landscape of secondary forest inside the PT DAS concession in Ketapang, West Kalimantan.

It’s been a full year of campaigning to end forest destruction for dirty palm oil. After Greenpeace exposed how Wilmar was still buying palm oil from rainforest destroyers and selling this dirty palm oil to brands all over the world… Read More

9 ways to reduce your plastic use at Christmas

Posted by Alice Hunter - 10th December 2018
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It’s December, the season of twinkling lights, wrapping up warm and eating your own body weight in chocolate. But it’s also the time of year when plastic packaging goes into overdrive. Even if you manage to avoid buying plastic presents, supermarkets and other retailers bombard us with plastic… Read More

Is Volkswagen’s plan to drop diesel and petrol cars a good one?

Posted by Philip Evans - 6th December 2018
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The announcement Earlier this week, Volkswagen announced a plan to get out of the business of fossil fuel cars and to go 100% electric. They’ll launch their final generation of fossil fuel cars in 2026 and plan to stop selling them all together by 2040. VW is the first… Read More

Festive #PointlessPlastic

Posted by Alice Hunter - 6th December 2018
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Nets of satsumas, sprouts bagged in plastic and Christmas puddings wrapped in shiny plastic layers – as the festive season approaches, our supermarket shelves start to groan with even more excessive plastic packaging than usual. Most of us like to indulge in festive treats at this… Read More

Why I’ve dedicated my life to protecting the rainforests

Posted by Annisa Rahmawati - 26th November 2018
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“Suddenly you are surrounded by calmness and fresh air. You are alone. You can listen to the sounds of the forest, the sounds of the birds. Whenever I go inside the forests, I feel always blessed and grateful.”

“I feel like a new person, reborn, when I am in the forest,” Annisa Rahmawati smiles. While Annisa finds peace and a sense of purpose among the trees, she also works every day to protect huge swathes of forest in her homeland, where the sound of bulldozers is threatening to drown out the sound of… Read More