BREAKING: Paper Giant APP Moves to Stop Pulping Forests; Now It’s APRIL’s Turn
Today is a day many of us only dreamed would come. Asia Pulp and Paper (APP), the controversial paper giant once referred to by the UK Guardian as “one of…
RAN and Allies Call on APP to Respect Human Rights
While Asia Pulp and Paper’s (APP) questionable financial dealings and destructive impact on rainforests and the climate have been widely reported, the human rights violations and social conflict associated with…
The Last Message Becky Wrote To You
For the last two weeks, we’ve been grieving the loss of RAN’s beloved executive director, Rebecca Tarbotton, who died tragically on December 26. In late December, Becky was working on…
APP: The Most Destructive Company in the World?
The UK Guardian once referred to Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) as “one of the most destructive companies on the planet.” The following is a brief synopsis of why that…
HarperCollins Paper Policy Under Construction – An Opportunity to Get it Right
This morning I logged onto to HarperCollins’ website to check out the company’s paper policy. What I found was something different than I’d seen before—just the first paragraph of their…
BREAKING: Police Arrest Orangutans in Minnesota
In what has become an increasingly common sight in this upscale suburb of Minneapolis, homeless orangutans have once again been spotted protesting the agribusiness giant Cargill in locations across the…
Grassy Narrows Celebrates 10 Years of Historic Blockade
On December 2, 2002 the Indigenous youth of the Grassy Narrows First Nation lay down in the path of industrial logging machines—blocking access to their tribal homeland in Northern Ontario,…
The Fate of Orangutans Is in Cargill’s Hands
Would you expect to get shot over 100 times in your own neighborhood? Probably not, but that’s what recently happened to a female orangutan when an agribusiness giant decided to…
Warning to Banks: Don’t Finance Rainforest Destruction
Last week, RAN joined sixty environmental and social organizations, including a dozen Indonesian groups, in signing an open letter to banks and other financial institutions across the globe warning them…
Big Questions Remain after Palm Oil Summit
After two days at the tenth annual meeting of the Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), I had just about given up on hearing anything controversial. The RSPO is a…