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Greenpeace today released a report, The Chain of Destruction: The United States Market and Canada's Rainforests, detailing how trees from Canada's ancient forests end up in the United States marketplace. The report was handed out during today's meeting of the shareholders of The Home Depot, the largest do-it-yourself chain in the country.

Greenpeace today welcomed The Home Depot's announcement of its commitment to eliminate from its shelves wood from endangered forests by the end of 2002. The environmental group hailed the decision as a necessary step in preserving the world's few remaining ancient forests.

The Center for Biological Diversity, Greenpeace, and the Natural Resources Defense Council have initiated legal action challenging the Bush administration’s attempt to reduce protections for polar bears under the Endangered Species Act. In court papers the groups sought to overturn a “special rule” issued by the Department of the Interior at the same time the polar bear was listed as a “threatened” species. The rule reduces the full protections the polar bear would otherwise receive under the Endangered Species Act. The groups filed the legal papers late Friday, May 16.

In a joint press conference with Greenpeace today, the international furniture retailer IKEA made a major public commitment to the environment by announcing that it will end all purchases of furniture made using wood from ancient forests.

Greenpeace activists today blocked a shipment of Interfor's Western Red Cedar from leaving a British Columbia rail yard en route to the United States. Two people dressed as bears (symbolizing the loss of grizzly habitat) attached themselves and a banner reading "Interfor Selling out Canada’s Cedar Rainforest" to a rail car loaded with Western Red Cedar. Another activist attached himself to a truck blocking the train’s access to the main line.

Following a violent reaction from the crew of the CIC Light, a Danish vessel transporting timber from the Amazon, four Greenpeace activists from Germany, Belgium and the UK remain in jail and face possible removal from the U.S. Activists still in custody are Heike Standigl and Christian Jonuschies (Germany), Paul Goyvaerts (Belgium) and James Mitchell (UK).

A Greenpeace investigation into paper company Kimberly-Clark (K-C) documents forest degradation, disappearance of threatened species, and growing conflicts with First Nation communities in Canada’s Kenogami forest, Greenpeace said today. These revelations represent a violation of a company pledge to not use “environmentally significant” wood in Kimberly-Clark products. The Kenogami forest is part of the North American Boreal forest, one of the largest remaining ancient forests on the planet. Today, at Kimberly-Clark’s shareholder meeting in Irving, Texas, Greenpeace is demanding that the company end its unsustainable fiber sourcing policies and maximize recycled materials in its products.

A coalition of student demonstrators in co-operation with Greenpeace protested in front of the do-it-yourself store WICKES in Bangor today, demanding that they immediately stop selling products from International Forest Products (Interfor). Interfor is a logging company which clear-cuts trees in the largest unprotected ancient temperate rainforest in the world. Some students were perched atop tall wooden structures, blocking entrances to the store.

The Government of British Columbia, Canada, in coordination with environmental organizations, logging companies and First Nations, endorsed the most significant rainforest conservation measure in the history of North America. Seven million acres of ancient rainforest on the Pacific coast of Canada will immediately be protected or put into deferral.