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Koalas demand McDonald’s Take Deforestation off the Menu
What do a homeless koala, a Big Mac and a banner drop have in common?
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‘Deeply flawed system’: Reforms to Australia’s broken nature law must be completed this term
SYDNEY, Wednesday 29 May 2024 — Greenpeace Australia Pacific has expressed alarm at the lack of clear timelines for the Federal Government to deliver on its promise to reform Australia’s broken national nature law this term.
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‘Enough of the bull’: Greenpeace report slams Australia’s biggest beef buyers for fuelling forest destruction
SYDNEY, Monday 13 May 2024 — A new Greenpeace report has slammed Australia’s biggest beef buyers, including McDonald’s, Coles and Woolworths, for failing to adequately address deforestation in their supply chains.
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Report: Deforestation Crisis on Their Watch
Australia is a global deforestation hotspot, driven primarily by the beef industry. About every two minutes, a large football field-sized area of forest and bushland is bulldozed, putting Australia alongside places like the Amazon, Congo and Borneo on the scale of destruction.
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‘Fox guarding the henhouse’: Beef industry’s deforestation definition will not pass muster
SYDNEY, Wednesday 8 May 2024 — In response to tomorrow’s expected release of Cattle Australia’s latest work attempting to develop an industry-led definition of deforestation, the following comments can be attributed to Head of Nature at Greenpeace Australia Pacific, Glenn Walker:
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It’s time to fight deforestation.
Everything you need to know about our new forests campaign
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‘Like a pub without beer’: Govt’s new enviro protection agency must be backed by nature law overhaul
SYDNEY, Tuesday 16 April 2024 — Greenpeace Australia Pacific has called on the federal government to urgently back up the establishment of the new environmental protection agency, Environment Protection Australia (EPA), with the promised overhaul of Australia’s broken national nature law.
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‘Don’t bow to mining lobby’: Leading environment orgs urge swift action on national nature law reform
SYDNEY, Wednesday 10 April 2024 — Australia’s largest environmental organisations have urged the federal government to drive forward ambitious reforms to the national nature law this term amidst reports of backlash from the mining industry.
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Joint deforestation investigation exposes broken national environment law
SYDNEY, Monday 25 March 2024 — A joint investigation by three of Australia’s leading environmental organisations has uncovered multiple instances of large-scale deforestation which were not referred to the federal government for approval.
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New Greenpeace research reveals shocking scale of deforestation crisis in Australia
SYDNEY, Wednesday 6 March 2024 — New independent research commissioned by Greenpeace has revealed the shocking impact of the deforestation crisis in Australia, with huge swathes of federally-mapped koala and threatened species habitat bulldozed in Queensland.