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In Pictures: Fighting Plastic Pollution on World Oceans Day!

Posted by Angela Glienicke - 8th June 2018
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Plastic caught up in the bleached corals around the Addu Atoll in the Maldives.
All rights reserved. Credit: © Uli Kunz / Greenpeace

The focus for this year’s World Ocean Day is preventing plastic pollution and encouraging solutions for a healthy ocean. Plastic pollution is one of the greatest threats to the health of our oceans, choking and entangling marine wildlife. These pictures are a sad testament of the problems caused by the tonnes of… Read More

A memento from the Antarctic

Posted by Greenpeace UK - 25th May 2018
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Thank you for joining the journey to protect the Antarctic. Although the Greenpeace ship has left the area, we still have until October to make sure the Antarctic Ocean Commission (the body responsible for protecting the region) says yes to an Antarctic Ocean Sanctuary. You can count… Read More

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

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

In Pictures: Massive deforestation linked to major consumer brands

Posted by Angela Glienicke - 2nd May 2018
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All rights reserved. Credit: © Ulet Ifansasti / Greenpeace

A new investigation by Greenpeace International reveals that a palm oil supplier to Mars, Nestlé, PepsiCo and Unilever is destroying rainforests in Papua, Indonesia. Satellite analysis suggests that around 4,000ha of rainforest were cleared in PT Megakarya Jaya Raya concession between May 2015 and April 2017 – an area almost half… Read More

In Pictures: Ending Plastic Pollution on Earth Day!

Posted by Angela Glienicke - 22nd April 2018
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Underwater image of a turtle with plastic on his head.
All rights reserved. Credit: © Troy Mayne / Oceanic Imagery Publications

It’s Earth Day today and this year’s theme focuses on ending plastic pollution. It’s hard to escape plastic – from plastic bags and tiny microbeads in our toothpaste, to disposable plastic bottles and computer keyboards. When plastic rubbish makes its way from the landfill sites into… Read More

In Pictures: A Moment of Truth on International Day of Forests

Posted by Angela Glienicke - 21st March 2018
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One year-old male baby orangutan Jelapat plays on the tree at Borneo Orangutan Survival (BOS) Foundation in Nyaru Menteng, Central Kalimantan.
All rights reserved. Credit: © Bjorn Vaugn / BOSF / Greenpeace

Today is International Day of Forests, which raises awareness about the importance of all sorts of trees and woodlands. Our new report “Moment of Truth” shines a light on companies’ readiness to come clean about where their palm oil comes from and finds that brands are not on track to… Read More