As Indonesia’s Forest Disappears, Tiger Eats Boy
This week the Jakarta Globe reported that a teenager named Ahmad Rafi was killed by a Sumatran tiger. He was mauled while he and his parents were tapping rubber trees…
Cargill’s New Palm Oil Deal for Unilever: Can It Be Called Sustainable?
Companies around the world with their hands in the palm oil pot are feeling the heat. Not only because our planet is warming up from rampant deforestation in Indonesia, but…
The Power of Film: Indonesian Deforestation Exposed
Between major environmental campaigns, international policy negotiations, and increasingly critical threats to biodiversity and local communities, the issue of Indonesian rainforest destruction is gaining much needed recognition as a critical…
RAN and Cargill: Turning Point for Indonesia’s Rainforests?
Since the release of our report on Cargill’s problems with palm oil in Borneo, Cargill has been scrambling to clean up their palm oil supply chain. Cargill has been engaging…
Time Is Running Out Fast for the Orangutan
On July 15th and 16th at an upscale resort off the coast of Bali, executives from some of the companies that represent the two main threats to the survival of…
Questions Raised on Billion Dollar Indonesia-Norway Deal
Last week, Norman Jiwan of Sawit Watch, an Indonesian NGO ally concerned with the ongoing adverse social and environmental impacts of palm oil plantations, wrote an op-ed in the Jakarta…
One Kid’s Book Takes on the Climate Challenge
These days climate change is definitely a buzz phrase that you can hear all types of people talking about around town. But between phrases like fossil fuels and renewable energy…
Sumatran Tiger Unexpected Visitor at BookExpo America
Last week, RAN’s Rainforest Free Paper team attended BookExpo America, the biggest publishing event in the U.S. An unusual part of the team really stood out from the 20,000+ crowd…a…
World Bank and IFC: The Big Bucks Behind Indonesia’s Rainforest Destruction
With oil gushing in the gulf, activists locking down in boardrooms, the ball of financial reform being thrown from Wall Street to Washington and back again, and Indonesia announcing a…
Cargill’s Lies About Palm Oil
In response to our report on Cargill’s problems with palm oil in Indonesia released earlier this month, Cargill has been denying that it clears and burns rainforest for palm oil…