Saving Indonesia’s rainforests

Indonesia’s rainforests are a biodiversity hotspot, rich in endemic species, and vital in regulating the Earth’s climate.

But these forests are being torn down for palm oil, pulp and paper plantations – making Indonesia the world’s third largest greenhouse gas emitter and threatening endangered species such as orangutans with extinction.

Greenpeace is campaigning to protect Indonesia’s rainforests.

Campaign Updates

Breakthrough moment to end deforestation for palm oil

It’s been a full year of campaigning to end forest destruction for dirty palm oil. After Greenpeace exposed how Wilmar was still buying palm oil from rainforest destroyers and selling this dirty palm oil to brands all over the world… Read More

Nick Monro aka Dikson - 17th December 2018

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Why I’ve dedicated my life to protecting the rainforests

“I feel like a new person, reborn, when I am in the forest,” Annisa Rahmawati smiles. While Annisa finds peace and a sense of purpose among the trees, she also works every day to protect huge swathes of forest in her homeland, where the sound of bulldozers is threatening to drown out the sound of… Read More

Annisa Rahmawati - 26th November 2018

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Climbing to protect the planet

This week we scaled Mondelez’s HQ to take a clear message to the company’s bosses. They must stop destroying the Indonesian rainforest for dirty palm oil, because as the trees come crashing down, so do orangutan numbers. Every day we lose 25 orangutans. The world is talking about palm… Read More

Caitlin Jones - 22nd November 2018

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In pictures: orangutans threatened by deforestation linked to the makers of Oreo

Palm oil suppliers to Mondelēz, one of the world’s biggest brands, known for it’s products like Cadbury chocolate bars, Oreo cookies and Ritz crackers have destroyed 25,000 hectares of orangutan habitat in Indonesia in just two years (2015 – 2017). Mondelēz buys much of it’s dirty palm oil from the… Read More

Angela Glienicke - 14th November 2018

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Rang-tan school posters

Our volunteer Greenpeace Speakers are presenting to primary schools on the issue of deforestation for dirty palm oil. Below you can find some amazing posters (or rather small works of art…) drawn by school children to support the campaign. You can find out if there’s a Greenpeace Speaker… Read More

Ed Fuller - 3rd October 2018

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