For example, the popular organization Greenpeace is out there trying to protect the rain forests in the Congo. It is the second largest rain forest on earth and is losing much of it’s forestry due to the amount of illegal logging that goes on. This forest is very important to millions of people! It is the way they get their food, water, shelter, and livelihood from fishing and farming. To the Democratic Republic of the Congo the culture depends fully on this forest. Hearing this I would think people would obviously want to end the logging. But no, they have granted the logging industries 15 million hectares of land for them! In return they get bags of salt and sugar and beer worth less than $100. Also the logging industries promise to build more schools and hospitals but that rarely even occurs and it’s reported in people protests intimidation tactics are used by the industries. Wow, I was so shocked and annoyed hearing this. Do you know how many animals, such as gorillas and chimpanzees and humans suffer from this? The people of DRC must feel it is good for them right now receiving all the goodies, but in the long run the whole environment will suffer from this.
This is the second most important forest in the world next to the Amazon. Yet we're still taking so much from it.
At this rate, the UN predicts that by 2040 two-thirds of the forest will be demolished.
Over 10,000 species of plants, 1,000 species of birds, and 400 species of mammals.
Short video that sums up the consequences of logging in the Congo from the Greenpeace website.
Luckily there are organizations like Greenpeace who take the time and effort to try and stop this from happening. They are campaigning for appropriate protection of intact forests and earn rights for the people and animals that depend on the forests. Their campaign pushes for stricter regulations to kick out illegal loggers from the forests in the Congo. This is such a good thing they are doing because illegal loggers take so much from the land excessively. Kicking them out will prevent even more logging to occur to the further 15 million hectares of land. Maintaining the existing number of logging activity is also vital, to keep the loggers from taking too much. What Greenpeace is doing is so important to the whole earth! Imagine 15 million hectares of land becoming extinct, how much damage it would do to the environment. This is an example of how Greenpeace was a positive human intervention was used on the biodiversity of out ecosystem, helping eliminate illegal logging in the Congo! 
Picture of Greenpeace protesting against logging in the forests of Congo.
References
Greenpeace.org/international/en/campaigns/forests/africa
www.greenpeace.org.uk/blog/forests/what-a-carve-up-the-con-in-the-congo-logging-industry
Pictures from http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/gallery/2008/jun/17/forests.conservation#/?picture=335086924&index=4
BLOGS I COMMENTED ON
http://claudia-d-123.blogspot.com/2010/09/green-quest-green-diagnostics.html#comments
http://nicolesbioblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/greenpeace-activists-occupy-arctic-oil.html#comments
