Rainforests are being burned, peatlands are being drained, rows of palm trees are being planted in their place, and Fonterra is complicit.
Today, we took action.
Anchor Rainforest Killer - Fonterra's palm kernel problem
https://youtu.be/7jGxO4cunCI
WATCH: Greenpeace make protest against Fonterra
https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360642695/greenpeace-make-protest-against-fonterra
Today we're taking action to stop Anchor Butter from using Fonterra dairy from cows fed on palm kernel linked to deforestation and human rights abuse in Southeast Asia.
While a team of Greenpeace activists have locked themselves inside the Agrifeeds storage shed to stop a shipload of palm kernal unloading, two orangutans have climbed onto the roof and deployed a 70m banner.
See more at
https://greenpeace.nz/palm-kernel-taranaki
Live updates View this post on Instagram A post shared by Greenpeace Aotearoa (@greenpeacenz) View this post on Instagram A post shared by Greenpeace Aotearoa (@greenpeacenz) Workers have shut the shed doors and stopped work. No palm kernel is being uploaded while our team is in place, and they have no intention to leave any […]
Video from one of the activists locked inside the Palm Kernel facility.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DIE9y3ayKbs/
32 likes, 2 comments - greenpeacenz on April 5, 2025: "LIVE NOW: Greenpeace Aotearoa activists have occupied the storage facility of @fonterra.nz's biggest palm kernel supplier and locked themselves to pillars, stopping a ship from Indonesia carrying 30 thousand tonnes of palm kernel expeller from unloading. Meanwhile, another team of activists dressed as orangutans climbed onto the roof of the Agrifeeds facility and deployed a 500 square meter banner that reads ‘Anchor Rainforest Killer’. The Greenpeace activists are protesting against the use of palm kernel as cow feed on Fonterra farms due to the product’s links to illegal palm plantations and the deforestation of paradise rainforests in Southeast Asia. More to come! #savetheforests #climatecrisis #taranaki #fonterra".
Here's some footage of pygmy hippos in their natural environment. The video is twelve years old, so I can only imagine how much of their habitat has been lost since then.
An introduction to the Pygmy Hippo Foundation - a charity which aims to help preserve and protect the rainforest environment of south-east Liberia and its en...
Moo Deng: the celebrated hippo’s real home has disappeared – will the world restore it?
I wonder how many of the people cooing over how cute she is are aware of this?
#NemonteNenquimo, #Waorani, Protecting the #AmazonRainforest
By Water for Life, via #CensoredNews, Sept. 21, 2024
"Our friend Nemonte Nenquimo, a leader of the Waorani people of #Ecuador, telling stories from her memoir, 'We Will Be Jaguars.' The book, written with her husband Mitch Anderson, about the fight to protect the Amazon rainforest, is a must read. The conversation was masterfully guided by actor, author, teacher Peter Coyote.
"Nemonte and Mitch have more readings coming up in San Francisco and Corte Madera later this week. New York City is next week!"
From Meet Nemonte Nenquimo:
"Nemonte Nenquimo led an indigenous campaign and legal action that resulted in a court ruling protecting 500,000 acres of Amazonian rainforest and Waorani territory from oil extraction. Nenquimo’s leadership and the lawsuit set a legal precedent for indigenous rights in Ecuador, and other tribes are following in her footsteps to protect additional tracts of rainforest from oil extraction. Guardians of the Amazon Rainforest
Background from the publisher:
"Born into the Waorani tribe of Ecuador’s Amazon rainforest—one of the last to be contacted by missionaries in the 1950s—Nemonte Nenquimo had a singular upbringing.
"She was taught about plant medicines, foraging, oral storytelling, and shamanism by her elders. At age fourteen, she left the forest for the first time to study with an evangelical missionary group in the city.
"Eventually, her ancestors began appearing in her dreams, pleading with her to return and embrace her own culture. She listened.
"Two decades later, Nemonte has emerged as one of the most forceful voices in #ClimateChange activism. She has spearheaded the alliance of indigenous nations across the Upper Amazon and led her people to a landmark victory against #BigOil, protecting over a half million acres of primary #rainforest. Her message is as sharp as a spear—honed by her experiences battling #loggers, #miners, #OilCompanies and #missionaries.
"In We Will Be Jaguars, she partners with her husband, Mitch Anderson, founder of #AmazonFrontlines, digging into generations of oral history, uprooting centuries of conquest, hacking away at racist notions of #IndigenousPeoples, and ultimately revealing a life story as rich, harsh, and vital as the Amazon rainforest herself."
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/09/we-will-be-jaguars-nemonte-nenquimo.html
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