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6 ways corporate lawsuits kill free speech (and how to fight back!)
Free speech is a right. So how can a corporation possibly stop you from speaking out? Using a legal tactic called a SLAPP, corporations like the massive Canadian logging company, Resolute Forest Products, are attempting to crack down on free speech by suing their critics into submission.
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Saving Dvinsky Forest: If companies don’t act, customers will
Speaking truth to corporations has been the backbone of Greenpeace’s global forest campaign for over two decades. Putting pressure on companies buying products from forest destruction has successfully helped protect the Great Bear Rainforest in Canada, create moratoria on deforestation due to soya and cattle expansion in the Brazilian Amazon, and deliver multiple zero deforestation policies inside and…
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Sending wild caribou to a zoo?
In Canada, recent government decisions to address declining caribou populations are truly dumbfounding. These animals deserve better. The public deserves better. Future generations deserve better.
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I don’t want to be a part of the problem
My name is Khalia, I have been working with Greenpeace Russia for more than three years to try and make our planet a better place.
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Fate of protected area in northwest Russia in the hands of consumer brands
Moscow, 6 March 2017 - Major western European and American companies are connected to logging companies expanding their operations into one of the largest tracts of undisturbed primary forest in Arkhangelsk Oblast of northwest Russia, a Greenpeace report reveals.
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Eye on the Taiga
Human activities are currently driving species to extinction at a rate 1,000 times the average natural rate over the past 65 million years. Habitat loss, including degradation and fragmentation, is the most important cause of this crisis. We must reduce the rate of habitat loss, and eventually halt it, if we are to protect biodiversity…
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Bring it on, 2017: New Year’s resolutions for people and the planet
For many of us who care about the environment and about people, 2016 has been a punch to the gut. Politicians and corporations at odds with issues like human rights and a healthy planet have managed to grab power in countries all over the world this year. Meanwhile, activists are being murdered, forests are burning,…
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Too long to wait: Russia’s Dvinsky Forest could be lost in a decade
Home to eagle-owls, wolverines, brown bears, rare plants and animals, the Dvinsky Forest is one of the last remaining Intact Forest Landcapes in the European part of Russia.
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Greenpeace calls for urgent global action to save The Great Northern Forest
Moscow, 7 December 2016 - As governments meet to discuss biodiversity, Greenpeace announced today a new global campaign to save the world’s largest terrestrial carbon store – the Great Northern Forest.
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Ladies and gentlemen, meet The Great Northern Forest
The Great Northern Forest has many names. Scientists see The Great Northern Forest as the boreal forest ecosystem - the global coniferous forest blanketing the northern hemisphere. The Russians traditionally call it “Taiga”. If you could look at the planet from above, it is the green crown circling the Arctic, the enormous green belt that…