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In Pictures: How an exotic tree species is threatening the Great Northern Forest and Indigenous People’s rights

Posted by Angela Glienicke - 22nd May 2018

Image for In Pictures: How an exotic tree species is threatening the Great Northern Forest and Indigenous People’s rights — Brown bear in Swedish forest.

On the International Day of Biodiversity a new report by the Swedish Sami Association reveals how the Swedish forest industry endangers the biodiversity of the Swedish Boreal Forest by logging and planting of an invasive tree species, the Lodgepole pine. The transformation of an intact biodiverse forest to plantations… Read More

Why Velvet’s claim of protecting forests should be flushed away

Posted by Jamie Woolley - 10th October 2017

Image for Why Velvet’s claim of protecting forests should be flushed away — Velvet claim to protect forests, but their suppliers are clearcutting critical areas of the Great Northern Forest

Comments have been flooding onto Velvet’s Facebook page, admonishing the company for using pulp from vital parts of the Great Northern Forest in their toilet paper. Customers are appalled that spectacular and important forests are being wiped away for luxury loo roll. Velvet has been forced to post a… Read More

Tell Velvet to Stop Wiping Away the Great Northern Forest

Posted by Charlotte Gill - 10th October 2017

Image for Tell Velvet to Stop Wiping Away the Great Northern Forest — All rights reserved. Credit: Greenpeace

We’re papering Velvet’s Facebook page to tell them to stop wiping away forests, here’s how you can get involved. Velvet are using trees from some of the most precious parts of the Great Northern Forests to make their toilet paper. Over 100,000 of us are calling on them… Read More

In pictures: the Great Northern Forest – beauty and destruction

Posted by Angela Glienicke - 28th September 2017

Image for In pictures: the Great Northern Forest – beauty and destruction — Brown bear in Swedish forest.

We have just launched a campaign showing how Essity, a Swedish tissue producer of well-known brands like Velvet and Cushelle, is linked to the destruction of parts of the Great Northern Forest. The tissue giant uses pulp from mills that are supplied by logging companies which clearcut some of Sweden’s… Read More

Is your loo roll flushing the forests down the toilet?

Posted by Lina Burnelius - 27th September 2017

Image for Is your loo roll flushing the forests down the toilet? — Critical forests are being destroyed to make toilet paper

You smell it first – the smell of recently splintered trees is so strong that it hits me long before I reach the logging site. Tree stumps are still sticky with resin. A few hours ago this was a lush forest with trees that had stood tall for over a… Read More

Authors around the world stand up for free speech and forests

Posted by Jamie Woolley - 31st May 2017

Image for Authors around the world stand up for free speech and forests — All rights reserved. Credit: Various

Authors, journalists, poets and playwrights know that every time the right words are put to paper, or typed to a screen, our planet gets a little better. Because, without the right to express ourselves freely, we cannot make that positive change. More than 100 authors have pledged to… Read More