The Forest Products Association of Canada (FPAC) with 21 member companies including AbitibiBowater, West Fraser and Weyerhaeuser, and leading Canadian and International environmental organizations such as Canopy, ForestEthics, Greenpeace, Pew Environment Group and The Nature Conservancy will host a news conference to be webcast around the world, on Tuesday, May 18, 2010, at which they will make a major announcement on wilderness conservation and industry competitiveness and sustainability.
The U.S. Attorney's office has agreed to drop felony charges against 15 Greenpeace activists and two freelance journalists who were due to stand trial in Los Angeles following a peaceful protest against the national missile defense test at Vandenberg Air Force Base on July 14, 2001.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has announced that it is opening the formal process to list polar bears as officially ‘threatened’ due to the unprecedented meltdown of their sea-ice habitat caused by global warming. The finding comes in response to a December lawsuit filed under the federal Endangered Species Act by three conservation groups.
Greenpeace International in the Netherlands released evidence today exposing the role of Cargill in rainforest destruction,and revealing the company’s ties to slavery and land-grabbing in the Amazon. As a result of the investigation, Greenpeace is urging Cargill to end its unlawful operations in Santarem, Brazil, and commit to buying soy from legal farms that are not destroying rainforests or using slave labor.
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