Forests

9 facts you need to know about forests and trees

Posted by Pete - 21st March 2014
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Trees are incredible. They can live for thousands of years and grow hundreds of metres tall. There is not a species on the planet that doesn’t owe its existence to them. So here are some amazing facts about trees and forests for International Day of Forests. 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

How cattle ranches are chewing up the Amazon rainforest

Posted by Jamie Woolley - 31st January 2009
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For about three years now, we’ve been working on curbing the impacts of the soya industry on the Amazon rainforest in Brazil which, before the current moratorium was put into place, was replacing the forest with plantations on a massive scale. However, there’s another agricultural sector cutting deep into… 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