Japan’s largest bank blinked, and then peatlands burned
MUFG acquired one of Indonesia’s largest banks, yet failed to vet its client list, which includes firms responsible for egregious acts of peatland destruction.
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The Leuser Ecosystem has come a long way, but its future is still uncertain
A critically threatened rainforest sits at a crossroads—will it become a global model for rainforest conservation, or will it disappear piece by piece?
New Report: Ten Years in the Leuser Ecosystem
A Rainforest Frontier Driving a New Era of Landscape Conservation This milestone report highlights ten years of RAN’s efforts to protect Indonesia’s globally important Leuser Ecosystem. Through desktop research, supply…
New Report from Rainforest Action Network Highlights the Leuser Ecosystem as a Proving Ground for Innovative, Landscape-Level Conservation
San Francisco, CA – May 28 , 2025 – Today, Rainforest Action Network (RAN) released a landmark report, Ten Years in the Leuser Ecosystem: A Rainforest Frontier Driving a…
Protesters Confront Mondelēz Over Deforestation and Human Rights Failures At Shareholder Meeting
Chicago, IL – As Mondelēz International (Nasdaq: MDLZ) prepares for its 2025 Annual General Meeting of Shareholders, public pressure is mounting. Today, activists gathered outside the company’s Chicago headquarters, calling…
The maker of Oreos is not taking its human rights responsibilities seriously
Rising authoritarianism is eroding basic democratic principles and human rights around the world, and corporations aren’t doing enough about it.
RAN responds to Mondelēz’s ESG Annual Report
Mondelēz, the maker of Oreos, released its annual Snacking Made Right Report a few weeks before the company’s annual shareholder meeting, which will be held on May 21, 2025. Rainforest…
Japanese Megabank MUFG Found to be Financing Massive Carbon Bomb in Indonesia’s Peatlands
JAKARTA/TOKYO — An explosive new investigation by Rainforest Action Network (RAN) has uncovered that Japanese banking giant Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) has been financing one of Indonesia’s worst environmental…
Japanese Megabank MUFG Finances Massive Carbon Bomb in Indonesia’s Peatlands
Fires caused by the expansion of industrial plantations in peatlands remain one of the largest contributors to Indonesia’s greenhouse gas emissions. They also cause public health crises and cause billions of dollars of economic loss and damage.
Elites posing as small farmers destroy critical rainforests in Indonesia
Smallholders grow about 40% of Indonesia’s oil palm, but they’re not all the same — some run their plots like mini corporate plantations, complete with managers and heavy machinery.
