Double Trouble: Chevron’s Ecuador Gameplan Slowly Unravels
Crossposted from Daily Kos In the last two days Chevron has been hit with two developments that will surely produce lasting doubts to the legality and authenticity of Chevron’s actions…
Tiger Eats Boy: APP Asks You To Follow Their Tracks
On August 10th two seemingly contradictory things happened. The Jakarta Globe reported that a teenage boy was mauled by Sumatran tiger in the Senepis area of Indonesia, an area where…
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…
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…
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…
Nestle Rejects Rainforest-Destroying Palm Oil: Who’s Next?
This week the leading consumer food company Nestle announced new policies to eliminate palm oil connected with the increasingly dire status of broad swaths of the world’s rainforests. The expansion…
The Latest Small Grants Supporting Frontline Communities
The below dozen grants distributed over the last few months through RAN’s Protect-an-Acre program and through our role as an advisor to Global Greengrant Fund supported frontline community efforts to…
Cargill waits for RSPO while Sinar Mas destroys forests
Last week Nestle joined the ranks of other major food conglomerates to cancel their palm oil contracts from Sinar Mas, Indonesia’s largest palm oil and wood pulp producer and notorious…
Cargill leaves a palm oil mess in Papua New Guinea
Cargill Inc., the world’s largest agribusiness company, has announced the sale of their palm oil plantations in the remote tropical nation of Papua New Guinea (PNG). Cargill owns mills and…