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Protecting the world's forests

The majestic canopies and thick forest floors of the world's forests teem with extraordinary animals and plants. These tropical forests are also home to millions of people, and are vital in stabilising the world's climate. Yet as much as eighty per cent of forests have been degraded or destroyed. Greenpeace is campaigning for zero deforestation by 2020 to protect what is left of these extraordinary ecosystems.

Pristine forests near Manokwari in West Papua, the last frontier of intact ancient forest in Indonesia - a reminder of what we are working to save. Greenpeace is campaigning for an end to all deforestation in tropical forests, which is critical to protecting the global climate, biodiversity and forest-dependent communities.

Aerial view in the rainforest, Para State, Amazon. The forest is being burned by the US based Cargill corporation to clear land for soya plantations.

© Greenpeace / Daniel Beltra

A tree stump is visible in an area which has recently been deforested to expand the Duta Palma Palm oil plantation.

© Greenpeace / Natalie Behring-Chisholm

Soon Africa's gorillas will only survive in wioldlife parks and zoos if the cuirrent forest destruction isn't halted.

© Greenpeace / Daniel Beltra

Many Boreal wildlife species like the Woodland Caribou are threatened with extinction due to habitat loss from logging. May 2010 saw the launch of a historic accord, the Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement, which brings together 9 environmental groups, including Greenpeace and 21 of the largest logging companies in Canada. The agreement is the first step towards conservation planning for 70 million hectares of Boreal wilderness. It marks the suspension of boycott campaigns directed at AbitibiBowater, Kruger and other members of the Forest Products Association of Canada.

© Greenpeace / Wayne Sawchuk

Orangutans are an endangered forest species; Indonesia.

© Greenpeace / Steve Morgan

Sloth (Bradybus variegates) in forest of Peru.

© Greenpeace / Takeshi Mizukoshi

On a flight from Alta Floresta in the Brazilian Amazon with a view of the rainforest seen during the burning season when large sections of forest are set alight by farmers to be cleared for cattle breeding and agriculture.

© Greenpeace / Daniel Béltra

A Penan man watches a passing Shin Yang Timber truck loaded with logs, Malaysia. The Penan are one of the few remaining nomadic peoples of the rainforest. Their homeland in the Malaysian state of Sarawak is undergoing one of the highest rates of logging on earth. The Penan are also threatened by a massive dam project. The proposed Bakun dam will flood 70,000 hectares of land, displacing indigenous peoples and wildlife and destroying even more rain forest.

© Greenpeace / Dang Ngo

Boy in Deni village Sumauma, Amazon, Brazil.

© Greenpeace / Cannalonga, Flavio

Children sit on logs in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. More than 21 million hectares of the nation's rainforest are now allocated to the logging industry.

© Greenpeace / Philip Reynaers

Papuans get a first hand view of the bridge of Greenpeace flagship, Rainbow Warrior, which sailed into the Indonesian province of Papua for the first time on 14 March 2006. The Warrior is on a mission to protect the Paradise Forests, the last ancient forests in Asia-Pacific, from illegal and destructive logging.

© Greenpeace / Oka Budhi

Greenpeace action at sawmill belonging to Maginco, the biggest mahogany trading company in Brazil.

06 August - Indonesia. Activists chain themselves to excavators to prevent the further destruction of West Kalimantan’s peatland forests for palm oil plantations.

Greenpeace action against imported timber from Canada's Great Bear rainforest, Vlissingen, Netherlands

Activists unfurled a banner from the famous Christ statue in Rio de Janeiro to call on governments to protect global biodiversity. Representatives from 188 countries are taking part of the Convention of Biological Diversity (CBD) in Curitiba, Brazil, to discuss the protection of biodiversity.