Chief Engineer of MY Esperanza in Papua

Bent, from Germany, chief engineer on the Greenpeace ship MY Esperanza touring in Indonesia. The tour aims to highlight the catastrophic impacts of deforestation for palm oil, logging and other industry expansion, on the global climate, biodiversity loss and forest-dependent people.

Unique identifier: GP01UAS

Type: Image

Shoot date: 15/10/2008

Locations: Asia, Indonesia, Papua, Southeast Asia

Credit line: © Greenpeace / Ardiles Rante

Ranking: ★★★★ (E)

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'Forests for Climate' Tour in Indonesia

Greenpeace conducts a series of documentation on the illegal logging activity in the pristine forest of Papua. Evidence of continued illegal logging activities in a suspended logging concession area in Kaimana, West Papua province were gathered.
Greenpeace is calling for an immediate moratorium on all forest conversion in Indonesia to help curb the country's greenhouse gas emissions, safeguard the wealth of tropical biodiversity and protect the livelihood of forest dependent communities. Greenpeace released evidence of continued illegal logging activities in a suspended logging concession area in Kaimana, West Papua province.
Greenpeace's "Forests for Climate" ship tour to Indonesia aims to highlight the catastrophic impacts of deforestation for palm oil, logging and other industry expansion, on the global climate, biodiversity loss and forest-dependent people. Papua is the last frontier of intact ancient forest in Indonesia.

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