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News: Deforestation

Taking action at the frontline of climate change and rainforest destruction

Ending deforestation is one of the fastest ways to save the climate. So Greenpeace is taking action to stop climate change right where it starts.

Australian timber industry calls for promised illegal logging laws

While the government backsteps on its election promise, Greenpeace joins forces with Australia's largest timber bodies to call for illegal logging legislation.

Jamie Durie launches the new Good Wood Guide

Every day, Australians buy illegal timber without even realising it. Now the Greenpeace Good Wood Guide is set to change that.

Climate change on the agenda in PNG highlands

The highlands of Papua New Guinea may be one of the most remote and far-flung places on the planet but even here the threat of climate change is moving people to call for action. Proof that climate change is an issue of global dimensions.

Celebration! Great Bear Rainforest protected

Greenpeace is celebrating an enormous success — the protection of the Great Bear Rainforest in Canada. This is the most comprehensive rainforest conservation plan in North American history.

PNG forests an important key to climate solutions

Papua New Guinea’s (PNG) forests have a vital role to play in stopping dangerous climate change and could earn billions of dollars from carbon funding. However, a new Greenpeace report questions whether PNG is fit to play the carbon game.

Greenpeace activists block palm oil shipment in Indonesia

In the latest stage of the Esperanza's Forests for Climate tour around south-east Asia, activists have arrived in Dumai, Indonesia to block a palm oil shipment from departing for Europe.

Forests for Climate tour in Indonesia

We're now on the Indonesian leg of the Forests for Climate ship tour, to shine the spotlight on rampant destruction of the Paradise Forests.

Forest map reveals logging impacts

Using maps, we have documented the impacts of logging on forest communities and the climate.

We've stopped a ship loading rainforest timber

Greenpeace has stopped a ship loading piles of logged timber from the Paradise Forests.

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