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Nestlé promise inadequate to stop deforestation for palm oil
“Nestlé knows it has been buying palm oil from 23 of the dirtiest producers in Indonesia. To announce only now that it will start trying to monitor where its palm oil comes from is simply embarrassing."
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Industrial railway line and logging threaten the Sámi homeland
“We are standing here for our present and future and drawing the red line. We are the guardians of our land and we will take care of it in a sustainable way as we have done thousands of years..."
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How can we restore Earth’s nutrient cycles?
Humanity has already breached four of the nine ecological boundaries outlined in 2009 by Johan Rockström: climate change, loss of biodiversity, land-system change, and nutrient cycles.
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Emma Thompson: “If we want to save orangutans from extinction we need to save their home”
For too long, big brands and the palm oil companies they buy from have been getting away with murder – I mean that quite literally. And for too long our response to orangutans has been, ‘ohhh, the poor things’ as we’re shown photographs of them orphaned, thin and at death’s door. But change is possible…
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World Photography Day through the lens of Greenpeace
Photography is the best ally to an environmental movement. It is a medium that speaks volumes to cross-cultural audiences, in a language everyone understands.
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World Orangutan Day: Numbers in decline despite Indonesian government’s claims
“If hunting and forest loss are halted in the future this decline could be reversed, but to the best of our knowledge that has not happened yet."
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What does the burning of the Great Northern Forest mean for us?
Wildfires are not only local disasters; they influence the entire planet.
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Halcyon Agri clearing nearly 10 football pitches a day near UNESCO site
"We need to see Halcyon Agri and Sudcam Hevea immediately halt their deforestation as well as submit a complete Environmental and Social Impact Assessment of their activities..."
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How much of Earth’s biomass is affected by humans?
To slow or reverse this erosion of biodiversity, humanity must slow its harvest of the natural biosphere and cease the destruction, depletion, and conversion of wild habitats.
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Walk into the Great Northern Forest – all you need is a phone
A few months ago, during a coffee break, at the Greenpeace office in Helsinki, we were chatting about the incredible beauty of the Great Northern Forest. We had just returned…