Following Biden’s Historic Amazon Visit, RAN Calls on Global Leaders at COP29 to Restructure the Financial System Driving Deforestation
San Francisco – After Joe Biden made history this week as the first sitting U.S. president to visit the Amazon rainforest, Rainforest Action Network is calling on global political and…
RAN’s Response to the Revised RSPO Certification Standard
The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO)—the leading certifier of palm oil in the world—voted to approve a revised certification standard (RSPO Principles & Criteria 2024) during its General Assembly,…
Back to Brazil: Cargill Launches a New Threat to the Amazon
In 1987, RAN successfully pressured Burger King to cancel $35 million in cattle contracts that were turning rainforests into grazing land. Since that historic first win, we have continued to…
Biodiversity on the Brink: Corporate Culpability and the Threat of Mass Extinction
Humans exist within a wildly complicated, nuanced, and interdependent network of life on planet Earth. We understand that network as biodiversity. Our existence is intricately connected with that of millions…
Impact in Indonesia: Pressure and Policies Help Forests Stay Intact
Although they can seem far away for many of us, our fight to keep rainforests intact is a fight for all of us. Our biodiversity, our climate, our very future,…
“Orangutan Capital” Under Siege: New Evidence Shows Illegal Deforestation in Indonesia’s Leuser Ecosystem
In July 2024, RAN commissioned Pléiades Neo satellites to fly above Indonesia’s Rawa Singkil Wildlife Reserve to capture unprecedented 30cm resolution imagery to map the extent of illegal deforestation within…
Harita Group commits to not logging on Long Isun territory
The Long Isun community has achieved a hard-fought victory after a decade of resistance against timber company.
Harita Group berkomitmen untuk tidak menebang hutan di wilayah Long Isun
Masyarakat Long Isun telah mencapai kemenangan yang diperjuangkan dengan susah payah setelah satu dekade perlawanan terhadap perusahaan kayu.
From COP16: Global NGOs File Formal Complaint to UNEP over its role in the TNFD
*Full complaint available here. Contact Laurel@ran.org **Quotes and complaint summary below text. Corporate-driven initiative accused of greenwashing forest destroying companies Cali, Colombia – Today, a global group of NGOs and…