'Clipper Hope' Occupation in Brazil

Greenpeace activists occupy the anchor chain of the ship Clipper Hope. A banner on an inflatable reads 'Save the Amazon'. The activists are preventing the departure of the ship from the Amazon to the USA, where its cargo of pig iron will be used to make steel for the US car industry. Greenpeace is taking action to expose serious crimes in the production of Brazilian pig iron (an intermediate product in the steelmaking process) including slave labour, deforestation and the invasion of indigenous lands.

Unique identifier: GP042PA

Type: Image

Shoot date: 14/05/2012

Locations: Amazon, Brazil, Maranhão, São Luis, South America

Credit line: © Marizilda Cruppe / Greenpeace

Ranking: ★★★★ (E)

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'Clipper Hope' Occupation in Brazil

Greenpeace activists take action against the ship Clipper Hope, preventing its departure from the Amazon to the USA, where its cargo of pig iron will be used to make steel for the US car industry. Pig iron from the company that owns the cargo – Viena - is exported to a US company that claims to supply car makers including Ford, GM, Mercedes and BMW. A new Greenpeace report "Driving Destruction in the Amazon" reveals how some of the world’s biggest car companies are using steel products made from this pig iron, despite the destruction caused by its production. Thousands of remote charcoal camps in Brazil have pillaged huge areas of natural rainforest to smoulder into wood charcoal. The charcoal is burnt in blast furnaces which convert iron ore to pig iron. Greenpeace is taking action to expose serious crimes in the production of Brazilian pig iron including slave labour, deforestation and the invasion of indigenous lands.

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