Australian logger drops lawsuit against protesters
Great news from Australia! A logging company has settled its lawsuit against its activist critics, and believe it or not the logger is the one who has to pay the…
How much old growth forest remains in the US?
Good question! USGS reports that “Before European settlement, forests covered nearly one billion acres of what is now the United States.” Data tables from the UN Forest Resource Asessment 2005…
RAN Writes to the FSC
Coming up in November, RAN staff will be attending the FSC General Assembly meeting as one of 350 members of the environmental chamber. The FSC is the only forest certification…
Rainforest Action Network’s Old Growth campaign is entering a new phase
Thanks in part to the support from tens of thousands of RAN activists and supporters, this past June the Grassy Narrows First Nation won an unprecedented victory when AbitibiBowater, the…
Tom Stephens: Amnesiac or Poor Brand Manager?
Forest News Watch posted an interesting interview with Boise Cascade CEO Tom Stephens Friday. When asked what effect “the agreement reached with Rainforest Action Network” had on day-to-day operations of…
The Biggest Environmental Victory You’ve Never Heard About
Looking for a little good news? Try this: earlier this month, Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty announced the largest forest conservation deal in Canadian history, and set a historic precedent for…
Broad coalition writes to Ontario premier
Today RAN was part of a coalition that released a joint public letter to Ontario’s premier calling on him to implement his promises for the Northern Boreal with full respect…
Huge News for Ontario’s Boreal Forest and its peoples.
The Ontario Government just announced plans to protect 56 million acres of Northern Boreal forest from all industry. The area falls entirely in the traditional territories of 36 First Nations…
Old Growth Conference Call Recording – click to listen
LINK to the Grassy Conference Call – click here to listen On June 19th, 2008, RAN hosted a conference call to discuss the Old Growth Campaign’s part in the Indigenous…
Grassy Victory Articles
Check out these lengthy news pieces on Grassy Narrows’ victory in kicking the clear-cut logging corporations off their territory – an area three times the size of Yosemite National Park….