Petitions for rainforest protection

Your signature can make a real difference. Our petitions expose destructive projects and name the perpetrators. Together we can have an even greater impact!

A group of indigenous people protest with a large banner on a street in a town: the banner reads: ‘The Tembé and Quilombola peoples of the Acará Valley are crying out. BBF is killing us. BBF out of our territory

Palm oil in Brazil: Return stolen community land, end the violence!

48,982 supporters
A herd of zebras under a tree surrounded by yellow grasslands

Protect savannas: NO to misguided “reforestation”!

51,623 supporters
Herd of elephants in Serengeti

World Bank: Stop financing evictions and human rights abuses in Tanzania!

79,544 supporters
Protest on a beach of Nias Island in Indonesia

Indonesia: Fight the marine bitumen spill off Nias Island!

68,399 supporters
Aerial view of an oil spill on a river in Nigeria

The oil industry is devastating Nigeria’s environment – for Germany’s benefit?

69,367 supporters
A colorful red-eyed tree frog sitting on a flower

Panama: NO to copper mining in the rainforest!

70,714 supporters
View of the rainforest from above

Indonesia: NO to a gold mine in Sumatra’s tiger forest!

77,594 supporters
Wild Chimpanzee Foundation (WCF) staff and Eco-Guards posing in front of an ancient tree in Sapo National Park, Liberia

Do not sell out Liberia's forests for Dubai's climate excesses!

66,897 supporters
Logs under palms

Indonesia: NO to the wholesale deforestation of the Mentawai islands!

88,504 supporters
A single oak tree on a clearcut; in the background a pine plantation

EU: Don't let big polluters off the hook. Say no to carbon offsets!

64,686 supporters
Waves wash over a beach on Koh Kong Island, Cambodia

Cambodia: Save Koh Kong Island!

135,230 supporters
Luis Quintero, president of the Barranquilla de San Javier community, together with other residents impacted by the expansion of the palm oil industry in the region

Ecuador: Stop land grabbing and racial discrimination for palm oil!

65,555 supporters
A large group of police in riot gear advance on a dirt road in an oil palm plantation

Guatemala: Stop the palm oil industry’s violence against the Maya!

62,455 supporters
Aerial view of a small village along a straight dirt road, with oil palm plantations cut into the rainforest behind it

Brazil: Stop land grabbing and violence for “fair and sustainable” palm oil!

77,828 supporters
Guardians of the forest

A better way to protect biodiversity: strengthening indigenous rights!

71,154 supporters
A colorful mural of plants and an indigenous woman on the walls of a small building with the inscription: “Let’s defend the water without fear”

Ecuador: Stop the mining industry’s violence against women!

75,710 supporters
Slash and burn in Brazil

Stop the torching of the Amazon rainforest!

140,943 supporters
Villagers protesting on boats against the pollution of the Aruwimi River

DR Congo: Stop the destruction by miners and loggers in Tshopo!

105,562 supporters
Photomontage: 15 combines in a wedge formation harvesting a soybean plantation. The outline of a gas pump can be seen in the harvested area.

Stop biofuels: Keep food out of fuel tanks!

53,428 supporters
Balsa wood in a wind turbine rotor blade

Don’t plunder the rainforest for wind energy!

67,682 supporters
Indigenous man on eucalyptus plantation

Brazil: Stop genetically modified eucalyptus trees!

83,525 supporters
Bonobo in the forest, DR Congo

DRC: Do not sacrifice Congo's rainforests to the oil industry!

116,721 supporters
Indigenous Ka'apor people – children, women and men – join hands and form a circle in the rainforest

Brazil: The Ka'apor people need our support!

79,257 supporters
An indigenous woman adorned with a feathered crown in front of two other indigenous people

Brazil: Stop the assault on the Amazon rainforest!

108,326 supporters
Kids under a tree

Paraguay: give the Manjui people their land NOW!

105,683 supporters
Montage: traffic sign with an electric vehicle in front of an open pit mine in the rainforest of Ecuador

Yes to the ‘green revolution' – but without copper and nickel from the rainforest!

86,066 supporters
Imprisoned Mother Nature Cambodia activists

Cambodia: Ten years in prison for protecting nature? Release them NOW!

94,647 supporters
environmental defender Kyaw Min Htut, Myanmar

Release detained Myanmar environmental & human rights defender NOW!

96,368 supporters
Okapis

Protect the world’s last okapis from gold mining!

105,700 supporters
Komodo dragon (Varanus komodoensis)

NO to a ‘Jurassic Park’ for Komodo dragons!

109,762 supporters
Indigenous Maasai herdsman

Tanzania: stop the eviction of the Maasai from Ngorongoro!

137,427 supporters
Three loggers sawing a freshly felled tree

Nigeria: save Cross River State's unique forests!

105,433 supporters
Giraffes

Is burning trees the new coal? Say NO to fake “renewables”!

109,119 supporters
People protesting against mining with banners and posters

Ecuador: Stop the violence by the mining industry!

111,144 supporters
Cattle herd in Mato Grosso

Protect Amazonia – NO to the EU-Mercosur Free Trade Agreement!

407,274 supporters
RIAO-RDC members with villagers from Bongemba / Yahuma

DRC: Release the palm oil protesters jailed in Mwingi!

143,260 supporters
Hippos

Keep the oil industry out of Africa’s natural treasures!

172,150 supporters
Proboscis monkey and baby

Stop the destruction of Borneo's proboscis monkey forest!

136,973 supporters
A forest elephant and calf standing in a river

Stop Nigeria's lawless palm oil juggernaut!

124,870 supporters
Women planting upland rice

Keep plantations out of Palawan Forest!

131,352 supporters
Orangutan in Central Kalimantan, Borneo

NO to “Food Estates” in the peat forests of Borneo!

173,646 supporters
Elephants enjoying a bath

Stop APP, Indonesia's brutal paper and pulp giant!

162,788 supporters
Protesting indigenous women in Brazil

Prosecute former Brazilian president Bolsonaro for genocide!

239,847 supporters
Pangolin in a cage at the Riau Natural Resource Conservation Centre, Indonesia

Shut down wildlife markets NOW!

352,579 supporters
Montage of miners in Congo and electric vehicle

Electric vehicles are stealth rainforest killers!

145,927 supporters
Pongo tapanuliensis

Stop bulldozing the Tapanuli orangutan!

398,290 supporters
Elephants Murchison-Falls-Nationalpark, Uganda

Uganda: keep the oil in the ground – save Murchison Falls!

218,848 supporters
Photomontage: Emmanuel Macron with an example of an industrial mine in the background. Quote: “We will do everything to ensure that a project of this scale can be realized in French Guiana.”

Urgent! Please SIGN: NO gold mining in the rainforests!

577,000 supporters
Jaguar in Mato Grosso do Sul (Brazil)

Stop the looming massacre of Brazilian wildlife!

206,163 supporters
Montage of high-speed train and Mayan ruins: Ek Balam in Yucatán

NO to tourist trains in the Mayan rainforest!

282,754 supporters
Clearing in Kinipan forest – indigenous people next to tree trunks

URGENT: Please help us save Kinipan forest!

246,918 supporters
Airbus A380 - dirty deals with palm oil

STOP dirty deals with palm oil!

288,156 supporters
Uniper biomass power plant

Burning wood for “green” power? No thanks!

168,112 supporters
A chameleon with a green and brown pattern, clinging to a branch

Ghana: don’t sell your nature to China

185,320 supporters
A woman is sitting in the water in a bay lined with rocks and a sandy beach

Sulawesi: stop dredging paradise for concrete!

179,003 supporters
An airliner over torched rainforest

Don’t trash the rainforest for “green” jet fuel!

244,406 supporters
Malayan flying lemur on Borneo

Unilever: stop destroying mangroves for convenience food!

225,163 supporters
An elephant calf in Leuser Ecosystem, Indonesia

Protect Leuser's iconic wildlife!

353,945 supporters
A Pala’wan girl carrying Taro, the local vegetable, standing in front of village huts

We need our land, not oil palms!

242,830 supporters
Polynesian imperial pigeon, Makatea Atoll in background

Save the Noah's Ark of the South Pacific!

260,477 supporters
Male orangutan facepalming

Tell UNESCO to recognize great apes as Living World Heritage

310,611 supporters
Men of the Mahuze indigenous people in Papua

Papua: “Surrendering our land would be suicide”

248,558 supporters

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