Forests

Time is running out Carex – come clean about palm oil

Posted by Nick Monro aka Dikson - 19th March 2018
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A solitary rainforest tree remains standing in a recently planted palm oil plantation on former orangutan habitat inside the PT Karya Makmur Abadi Estate II palm oil concession. PT KMA II is a subsidiary of the Malaysian Kuala Lumpar Kepong Berhad (KLK) group.

Indonesia has more threatened and endangered species than any other country on Earth – largely due to the destruction of their habitats. The Bornean orangutan population has decreased by half since 1999 with over 100,000 lost in the last 16 years. In 2017, a… Read More

Forests, palm oil and the people: Silas’ story

Posted by Flo Stuart-Leach - 13th March 2018
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Silas, a determined Liberian activist fighting the Liberian government's illegal sale of forest land is the subject of a new documentary to be screened at London's Human Rights Watch Film Festival.

“It was about time ordinary Liberians took a stand on what was happening,” says Silas Siakor, a Liberian activist. But Silas himself is anything but ordinary. Silas the film follows him and the NGO he founded, Sustainable Development Institute (SDI), as they expose the government’s lucrative, illegal deals with palm oil… Read More

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

Posted by Jamie Woolley - 10th October 2017
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Velvet claim to protect forests, but their suppliers are clearcutting critical areas of the Great Northern Forest
All rights reserved. Credit: Christian Åslund / Greenpeace

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
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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
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Brown bear in Swedish forest.
All rights reserved. Credit: © Günter Lenhardt

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
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Critical forests are being destroyed to make toilet paper
All rights reserved. Credit: Jari Stahl / Greenpeace

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