The Page Pepsi Doesn’t Want You To See
For over a year, Rainforest Action Network and our allies have been calling on PepsiCo to cut Conflict Palm Oil from its supply chain. The reason is simple: with an…
No Means No. KLK Out of Collingwood Bay!
This message comes from Adelbert Gangai and George Baure of Collingwood Bay, Papua New Guinea. They are two of many local residents fiercely resisting KLK’s attempted landgrab of the community’s forests. Our…
Building Labor’s Power to Stop Exploitation of Palm Oil Workers
Petaling Jaya, Malaysia – RAN just finished hosting an inspiring and humbling two-day Palm Oil Labor Principles Workshop outside Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The intensive discussions involved dozens of representatives from…
Labor Exploitation and Human Rights Abuses within the Palm Oil Sector
Workshop builds consensus for a common set of palm oil labor principles for companies, certifiers and governments Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – This week, a group of international NGOs convened with…
Major Importer IOI Falls Short in Latest Pledge to Eliminate Conflict Palm Oil
Despite sector movement toward more responsible palm oil production, IOI Loders Croklaan new policy does not cover all IOI Group’s plantations and operations. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, November 14, 2014…
Mongabay: Only place where rhinos, tigers, elephants, and organgutans coexist is under threat
“A forest that is the only place where rhinos, tigers, elephants, and orangutans coexist is under threat from planned infrastructure, mining, logging, and plantation projects, warns a new report from…
Epoch Times: Forest Wildlife Coexistence Threatened
“A forest that is the only place where rhinos, tigers, elephants, and orangutans coexist is under threat from planned infrastructure, mining, logging, and plantation projects, warns a new report from…
Report: Global Biodiversity Hotspot Threatened; Fate of Sumatra’s Leuser Ecosystem Depends on Actions by Indonesian President and Palm Oil Giant Musim Mas
Rainforest Action Network releases evidence linking Musim Mas to deforestation in Leuser Ecosystem; says approval of Aceh spatial plan on new president’s desk would be ‘disastrous’ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday,…
Long Live the Leuser Ecosystem
Of all the special places on earth that are deserving of protection, there is one in particular—Indonesia’s Leuser Ecosystem on the north tip of Sumatra—that Rainforest Action Network has decided…
