Destroying Rainforests for Snacks: Global Food Brands Ranked Against Each Other Over Progress Towards Fulfilling 2020 Deforestation Promises
*Brand scoring graphic here, scoring rationale backgrounder here, RAN blog on survey results here Destroying Rainforests for Snacks: Global Food Brands Ranked Against Each Other Over Progress Towards Fulfilling 2020…
Snack Food 20 Policy Implementation Evaluation
Snack Food 20 Policy Implementation Evaluation: A Framework to Assess the Implementation of No Deforestation, No Peatland and No Exploitation Commitments
How do the Snack Food Giants compare on Cutting Conflict Palm Oil?
How do the Snack Food Giants compare on Cutting Conflict Palm Oil? Our assessment has found that their paper promises have not stopped deforestation, have not mitigated threats to endangered species, and have not delivered remedy for the exploitation of Indigenous Peoples, local communities and workers.
New Year, New Palm Oil Mill Threatens the Leuser Ecosystem
As we welcome the new year, RAN field investigators have discovered a highly concerning new palm oil mill being constructed directly adjacent to the Leuser Ecosystem. Worse, the mill belongs to a controversial, repeat-offender palm oil company…
Breaking: New Road Construction and Deforestation for Palm Oil in Critical Elephant Corridor
Field investigations have once again revealed new land clearing and roading within some of the most important remaining lowland rainforests in Indonesia.
PHOTOS: Desperate Orangutans Rescued as Snack Brands Remain Silent About Sourcing Conflict Palm Oil From Singkil-Bengkung rainforests
As major snack food brands continue to drag their feet, there is a very real and growing danger that the Sumatran orangutan could become the first member of the great apes, humankind’s closest living relatives, to be pushed to extinction in the wild.
The Most Important Place You’ve Never Heard Of
Can you picture a rhinoceros in the rainforest? Add a herd of elephants, families of orangutans swinging through the treetops and tigers prowling the understory and there is only one place in the world you could be: Indonesia’s Leuser Ecosystem, one of Earth’s most ancient forest ecosystems…
Fifteen environmental NGOs demand that sustainable palm oil watchdog does its job
BANGKOK: As members of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), the world’s largest palm oil certification system, meet in Bangkok for their 17th annual meeting, the world is in the midst…
Major Brands Again Caught Sourcing Deforestation-Linked Palm Oil
Just weeks after a major undercover field investigation by RAN exposed global food brands as sourcing illegally grown palm oil from within Indonesia’s nationally protected Rawa Singkil Wildlife Reserve, RAN is releasing fresh evidence of deforestation in the region connected to many of the same brands through a different supplier, PT Laot Bangko.
Reuters: Green groups flag threat to Indonesia forests recovered from palm planters
“Gemma Tillack, forest policy director at U.S.-based environmental group Rainforest Action Network, said the move was “a welcome signal at a time when forest fires are destroying rainforests the world…
