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Protecting Our Forests
Our world is in crisis. Our forests are disappearing and natural habitats are being destroyed.

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

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.

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.
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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: 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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