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Consumer power! Procter & Gamble decides to wash its bad palm oil away
About 400,000 emails to Procter & Gamble CEO. Thousands of phone calls to P&G offices around the world. Dozens of protests throughout the planet. 7300 Sumatran orangutans at risk of being made homeless. As few as 400 tigers at risk of being made homeless. 620,000 hectares of forest potentially destroyed every year. These numbers summarize…
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Winning! Colgate To End Its Role In Forest Destruction
Nearly 400,000 of you have written to P&G’s CEO. Dozens of protests have taken place in cities as diverse as Jakarta, Cincinnati and London. And thousands have taken to Facebook, Twitter and even their phones to tell P&G to clean up their act...
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Hunt’s direct action on rainforest could reap carbon rewards
By David Ritter, University of Western Australia Opposition environment spokesman Greg Hunt’s ambition to broker a new global rainforest recovery plan reopens an important conversation about Australia’s role in tackling tropical deforestation. And it reminds us there is much Australia could do right now. According to Hunt in an announcement on 30 August, “[n]othing…
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What about the tigers, Novak?
YUM’s David Novak is being awarded best CEO of the year tonight at a dinner event at New York’s stock exchange. This won’t be a surprise in corporate circles; after 15 years at YUM! Brands and releasing his own book on management ‘Taking People with You’, Novak is known for his leadership. We have to…
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Exposed: KFC’s secret recipe for rainforest destruction
Press release – 23 May, 2012Sydney, May 24th 2012 – Greenpeace International today released evidence that KFC has been using product packaging sourced from rainforests, supplied by Asia Pulp and Paper (APP). Forensic testing in three markets – UK, China and Indonesia – repeatedly confirmed the presence of rainforest fibre in numerous packaging products, including…
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Undercover investigation exposes Asia Pulp & Paper’s illegal rainforest scandal
Press release – 1 March, 2012Xerox, National Geographic, Collins Debden Australia and many more implicatedSydney/Jakarta, 2 March 2012 : A year-long Greenpeace investigation into the world’s third largest pulp and paper producer, Asia Pulp & Paper (APP), has found that the company is systematically violating Indonesia’s laws protecting ramin, an internationally protected tree species (1).…
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Asia Pulp and Paper’s sinking reputation forces more companies to jump ship – including Hasbro
There’s further bad news for Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) as yet more companies around the world ditch their contracts with the unscrupulous forest-trashing company. Hot on the heels of Mattel and Lego, today Hasbro announced a new paper-buying policy. Blogpost by Jamie Woolley, Greenpeace UK Hasbro’s new policy says it will avoid controversial…
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Greenpeace calls on Solaris Paper to investigate online abuse
Press release – 16 August, 2011Greenpeace is calling on Solaris Paper to come clean on whether senior staff have resorted to astro-turfing and personal abuse against Greenpeace and staff members at IGA supermarkets.Yesterday, the online news site Mumbrella alleged they had traced personal abuse against Greenpeace and senior management of the supermarket IGA posted in…
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Will notorious forest destroyer Sinar Mas come clean?
The short answer: not likely. In fact, not only are they not likely to come ‘clean’, but we have just released fresh evidence that Sinar Mas’ notorious forest destroying practices continue unabated and in direct violation of the company’s own environmental commitments on protecting forests and peatlands. Sinar Mas is Indonesia’s largest palm oil, and pulp…