The Amazon
Palm Oil
Protecting Our Forests
Our world is in crisis. Our forests are disappearing and natural habitats are being destroyed.
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You can help protect our homes before it’s too late
Animals are being pushed to extinction from the Amazon to Australia as greedy corporations destroy the world’s forests. Donate now to stop this destruction.
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Tell Murray Watt to protect our great barrier reef and forests
The Australian Government is rewriting our national nature law. It is a once-in-a-generation chance to protect forests, wildlife and the Great Barrier Reef. Your voice matters. Call Murray Watt NOW!
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Help protect our forests: Submit a letter to the senate inquiry
Join us in writing to the senate. All you need to do is write from your heart using our guide, or you can copy and paste our pre written letter.
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Call on PM Albanese to defend the Amazon
World leaders will soon be meeting to discuss the future of the Amazon…your voice can make a difference.
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Tell your MP to protect our forests
Right now, the Albanese Government is rewriting our national nature law. It is a once-in-a-generation chance to protect forests and wildlife. Tell the government to protect our forests with a strong nature law.
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Our wildlife needs your urgent action
Australia’s native forests and animals are in crisis. We call on PM Anthony Albanese and his government to become a world leader in forest protection and act swiftly to protect our threatened native environment. We call on the Australian Federal Government to implement strong environmental protection laws to end deforestation in Australia by 2025.
The problem
Imagine two huge bulldozers rumbling brutally through a forest snapping trees like matchsticks. Imagine wildlife desperately fleeing the scene, being killed, maimed or dying slowly of starvation. Imagine the trees pushed into piles and set on fire to complete the annihilation of the forest.
Now imagine this horrible deforestation happening every 2 minutes to an area of forest and bushland the size of the MCG. This is the scale of the deforestation crisis underway in Australia.
What we do
Greenpeace has for decades been a global leader and voice for action to curb deforestation. Locally, Greenpeace Australia Pacific is focused on shifting Australia’s biggest corporations to go deforestation-free and removing the economic incentives for this environmental destruction.
1
animal
Is killed every second by deforestation
2
minutes
Is the time it takes for a forest the size of the MCG to be cleared
620,000
Hectares of forest lost to deforestation annually in Australia
You can help bring an end to the destruction of our forests
Your ongoing support is the most effective way to contribute by helping us with long term campaign strategies.
Learn more about forests and nature
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Nature laws agreement delivers big forests outcome; much work to be done on climate
CANBERRA, 27 NOV 2025 — Greenpeace has welcomed the agreement struck by Labor and the Greens today on EPBC Act reforms, which secures new nature and forest protections, but says…
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A Message to You: Thank you for speaking for our forests
Over a thousand of you took the time to write to the Senate Inquiry on the overhaul of our national nature law. I read every single submission.
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COP30 falls short, but momentum builds behind a fossil fuel phase out
BELÉM, BRAZIL, Saturday 22 November 2025 — The UN COP30 summit has ended without actionable roadmaps to transition from fossil fuels and end forest destruction, but a new coalition of…
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Report: Toxic Skies – How Agribusiness is Choking the Amazon
This report tracks air pollution across key regions of the Amazon, revealing how fires related to agricultural activity, in particular cattle pastures and deforestation, are degrading air quality, threatening public health, and accelerating climate and biodiversity crises.
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Public Poll: People want more forest action
9 in 10 people view forest action as critical to fight climate change.
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Report: The ongoing animal welfare crisis from deforestation in Australia
Little has improved for wild animals since our last report on this crisis in 2017. Despite some reforms to the Vegetation Management Act in Queensland in 2018, laws and policies in both states have not greatly changed and still allow very large areas of bushland habitat for wildlife to be destroyed every year, likely harming,…
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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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REPORT: Clearcutting Free Speech
Canada’s Great Northern Boreal Forest, stewarded by Indigenous Peoples since time immemorial, includes some of the world’s last large expanses of undisturbed natural forest, is home to threatened species, and…
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REPORT: Cutting deforestation out of the palm oil supply chain
In recent years, the world’s biggest companies have woken up to the environmental costs associated with palm oil and the other commodities they buy. Nowhere are those costs more evident than in Indonesia, which has lost 31 million hectares of forest, an area almost the size of Germany, since 1990.
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