Indonesia

10 shocking facts showing how companies are still trashing Indonesia’s rainforests

Posted by Greenpeace UK - 20th November 2015
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Forest destruction and orphaned orangutan
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For months, forest fires raged across Indonesia bringing the world’s attention to the country’s devastating forest destruction. Both people and orang-utans were endangered as the fires raged and a thick, choking haze swept across Southeast Asia. These forest fires were a legacy of decades of destruction by palm oil and… Read More

Result: Santander stops financing forest destroyer APRIL

Posted by Richard George - 26th February 2015
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Great news: Santander just pledged to stop financing the paper company APRIL. Santander has agreed that APRIL will get no more money until it stops destroying the Indonesian rainforest. After receiving thousands of queries and complaints, the bank today announced ‘Banco Santander has decided to not renew the current funding… Read More

Success! You made Nestlé drop dodgy palm oil!

Posted by Jamie Woolley - 17th May 2010

You’ll never guess what. Nestlé has only gone and agreed to our campaign demands! And you’ve made this possible. We really, seriously could not have done it without you. Now we need to move straight on to the next big player in the palm oil industry – banking giant… Read More

Dove story: how you’re helping to change Unilever’s mind on palm oil

Posted by Greenpeace UK - 1st May 2008
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Potentially good news for orang-utans – Unilever announced this morning that they’re now supporting our calls for a moratorium to protect Indonesia’s rainforests from destruction at the hands of the expanding palm oil industry. When we sent in our own ‘orang-utans’ to Unilever HQ last week to tell them that they needed to… Read More