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Organisations take Brazilian government to the Supreme Court over deforestation and human rights abuses
A coalition of non-governmental organisations brought the Brazilian government to the Federal Supreme Court for its active negligence to protect the Amazon and the people of Brazil.
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Investigation indicates FSC-certified company intentionally used fire to clear Indonesian forests for palm oil
A groundbreaking investigation an Indonesian-Korean plantation and energy conglomerate intentionally used fires as part of the process of clearing vast areas of forest in remote areas of the Indonesia province of Papua.
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Action from Karipuna Indigenous People result in significant reduction of deforestation, analysis shows
532 hectares of forest within the Karipuna Indigenous land was deforested between August 2019 and July 2020, 49,1% less than the same period in the previous year.
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Wagner Moura and Greenpeace release animation to expose the destruction of forests for meat production
Greenpeace UK and Brazilian actor Wagner Moura teamed up to release “There’s a monster in my kitchen”, a short film that highlights the impact industrial meat production has on forests.
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To protect nature, bring down the walls of fortress conservation
Indigenous communities have been leading the way in conservation for centuries. Power needs to shift from polluting industries to people who know how to protect land and nature.
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Motorway through a forest? No way
The logging season has just started in Germany and forests are under siege. The largest is the Dannenroder forest.
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Brazil is up in flames—here’s why
The record-breaking fires in Brazil have already surpassed the grim mark from last year, and Bolsonaro’s government is to blame.
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Trump and Bolsonaro “meltdown” during UN Biodiversity Summit
Ice sculptures of presidents Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro melt in New York to illustrate their absence at the meeting and the urgency to act on the nature and biodiversity collapse.
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The world failed on all of its biodiversity targets. What happens next?
Governments didn’t reach any of the targets in full to slow biodiversity loss, and as a result nature is at breaking point.
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Europe is eating the world’s forests (but we can stop it!)
Five activists scaled the 14-storey European Commission headquarters in Brussels to hang a 30m banner revealing the Amazon in flames, with the message: “Amazon fires – Europe guilty”.