Dammed By Greenpeace

PICTURED: Local community member helping with damming...Greenpeace activists and 200 local community members take part in a traditional ceremony to mark the completion of the ?Climate Defenders? Camp?, which they built together on the threatened Kampar Peninsula. The Camp was built to bring urgent attention to the role that deforestation plays in driving dangerous climate change, a critical issue to be addressed at the UN Copenhagen Climate Summit in December. .The forest peat soils in Kampar are particularly deep and store some 2 billion tones of carbon. They form one of the largest natural carbon stores on the planet and a significant global defense against global climate change. Much of the forest that once surrounded the Peninsula has been destroyed to make way for paper and palm oil plantations. ...