10s 2010 The UK government axes plans for a third runway at Heathrow airport. Greenpeace opposed the plan because it ran contrary to efforts to reduce carbon emissions in the UK, and co-purchased, with 91,000 supporters, a plot of land that would have made the runway impossible to build.
In a significant win for forest protection, 80,000 hectares of pine forest in northern Finland has been declared off-limits to industrial logging following an eight-year campaign by Greenpeace and Finland’s indigenous Sami reindeer herders.
image 1 Airport campaigners head to Downing Street to present the new Prime Minister with a legal Deed of Trust containing the names of the people who jointly own the plot of land at Heathrow © John Cobb / Greenpeace image 2 Site of the planned third runway project © Jiri Rezac / Greenpeace image 3 British comedian Alistair McGowan lends his support to the Greenpeace UK protest © Jiri Rezac / Greenpeace mage 4 McGowan outside the Royal Courts of Justice at the start of the Judicial Review © Felix Clay / Greenpeace image 5 Children make a NO in Parliament Square during a protest against Heathrow expansion © Will Rose / Greenpeace image 6 Reindeer from the Muotkatunturi Reindeer co-operative, herded into a corral, Inari, Finland © Ojutkangas Kalervo / Greenpeace
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