Orangutans Loose in Downtown Minneapolis!
Displaced primates, having lost much of their Indonsian rainforest habitat, relocate to Minneapolis to tell the company responsible for destroying their rainforests to adopt a Global Forest Policy NOW. One…
Keep the heat on Cargill
Yesterday’s global call-in day to Cargill’s CEO Gregory Page at his headquarters in Wayzata, MN was a huge success thanks to all of our wonderful supporters and activists! Great work! …
Watch our Presentation on Palm Oil: Little Seed. Big Problem. Bold Solution.
The Rainforest Agribusiness campaign team attended the Natural Products Expo East in Boston, Massachusetts, where we participated in two very successful events entitled “Little Seed. Big Problem. Bold Solution” in…
Forget the Black Gold, Just Clean Water Please
I’m sitting opposite the ‘Hotel Black Gold’ as the sun goes down over Lago Agrio and the streets start to hum with evening traffic, people returning home from work and…
Could Chevron Have a Change of Heart?
Fabiola is a beautiful thirteen-year old girl with sparkling bright eyes and an infectious smile. As we approached her house in the village of Taracoa in Ecuador, she marched right…
New research questions value of REDD project in Sumatra
David Gaveau et al. have released an innovate paper that takes a critical look at the widely touted Reduced Emissions through avoided Deforestation and Degredation (REDD) project in the Ulu…
Report from RAN Ghana: The Struggle for Gua Koo Forest Reserve & Sunkwa Stream
This report comes from John Akwetey with RAN Ghana. Since the colonial time, the Indigenous people of Pokuase have depended on their Forest reserve, more than any other Indigenous group…
Big day for climate, Big new bill, and Big giveaways to coal, oil and loggers
With climate talks underway in Bangkok, Indigenous activists reviewing the text and engaged in the talks calling for no market-based REDD deal, Greenpeace activists blockading the tar sands in Alberta,…
If REDD can’t save this…
Cross-posted at Grist Bukit Tigapuluh Forest is truly one of those special places. It’s got three endangered species, two minority groups of indigenous people and a superlative: it’s the last…
Seeing the Rainforests for the Trees in the Senate Climate Bill
Senators Kerry and Boxer have said that they are on track to introduce the first step for Senate version of the ACES climate bill next Wednesday, September 30th. The draft…