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Rainforests that are home to endangered orangutans are being cut down to plant palm oil.

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Forests

Rainforests are treasure troves of life, home to some of the most biologically and culturally diverse landscapes on earth. Since 1985, Rainforest Action Network has designed strategic campaigns utilizing bold tactics to defend the world’s most important and endangered forests.

The Problem With Cargill

Cargill is the largest importer of palm oil into the U.S. and one of the largest traders of controversial palm oil in the world.

Girl Scouts and Palm Oil

When they were just eleven years old, Michigan Girl Scouts Madison Vorva and Rhiannon Tomtishen discovered an alarming fact while completing research for their Girl Scout Bronze Awards: most Girl Scout cookies are packed with palm oil, an ingredient that causes the destruction of irreplaceable rainforests and threatens the survival of humankind’s closest relative, orangutans.

Disney

It’s time for Disney to realize that rainforest destruction is no fairy tale. Rainforest Action Network is putting Disney on notice, and we hope you will join us to get the company to align its practices with the values it espouses and embeds in the stories it tells.
Truth and Consequences: Palm Oil Plantations Push Unique Orangutan Population to Brink of Extinction
A manmade inferno inside the globally renowned Tripa rainforest in Aceh, Indonesia is pushing this forest’s unique population of Sumatran orangutans to the brink of extinction. Destruction inside palm oil plantation leases is driving the end of this great lowland forest, despite years of efforts by local communities to defend their forests and livelihood.
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Recent Blog Posts

RAN Delivers Nearly 20,000 Petitions to Cargill HQ

The major tragedy that is still unfolding in Indonesia’s Tripa rainforest continues to threaten the survival of critically endangered Sumatran orangutans.

International Day of Action to Save Tripa Rainforest

While many of us realize on some fleeting, uncomfortable level that our generation holds the future of countless species and ecosystems in our hands, rarely is the choice to allow extinction to happen – or to fight like hell to stop it – so clear as it is right now with humankind’s closest relative, the orangutan.

Tragedy in Tripa: Cargill Can Make a Difference

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Stop the fires in Indonesia and save Sumatran orangutans
Fires started by profit-hungry palm oil companies tore through the critical Tripa peat forest of Sumatra.

Publications

Truth and Consequences: Palm Oil Plantations Push Unique Orangutan Population to Brink of Extinction
A manmade inferno inside the globally renowned Tripa rainforest in Aceh, Indonesia is pushing this forest’s unique population of Sumatran orangutans to the brink of extinction. Destruction inside palm oil plantation leases is driving the end of this great lowland forest, despite years of efforts by local communities to defend their forests and livelihood.
Cargill's Problems With Palm Oil
This report documents systemic failures in agribusiness giant Cargill's supply chain.
Cargill’s Legacy of Destruction: Case Study of a Cargill Owned Plantation in Indonesia
A case study on PT Harapan Sawit Lestari, an oil palm plantation owned and operated by the U.S. multinational corporation, Cargill.
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