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Our position on forest certification schemes
Friends of the Earth International strongly rejects certification of large-scale tree plantations and does not support any forest certification scheme at a global level. This page sets out the reasons why.
Solidarity for Greenpeace Arctic activists
On Friday 17 June, 2011, Kumi Naidoo, the head of Greenpeace international, and fellow activist Ulvar Arnkvaern, were arrested as he climbed an Arctic oil rig operated by Cairn Energy. He was following in the footsteps of 20 other Greenpeace activists who had gone before him in the past two weeks.
