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Oil pumpjack with a cloudy sky in the background

Feb 2, 2024

For true climate protection: Don’t fuel the fire!

At the COP28 conference, Europe pledged to phase out fossil fuels. In reality, the EU wants to fall back on dangerous and costly false solutions.

A group of Indigenous people with protest banners in front of a hut thatched with palm fronds

Brazil

Brazil: Indigenous Ka’apor people denounce abuses by carbon traders

The Indigenous Ka’apor people call on the Federal Prosecutor’s Office in Maranhão to take action to evict the carbon trader Wildlife Works from their territory.

Graphic: SLAPP suits are intended to silence critics

Feb 27, 2024

EU puts a stop to abusive SLAPP lawsuits

The EU is finally getting a directive to combat abusive lawsuits, or SLAPPs, that will make it harder for corporations and powerful individuals to silence critics.

Path cut into the rainforest for the Tren Maya railroad line

Mexico

Inauguration of Mexico’s “Mayan Train”: No reason to celebrate

While sections of the Tren Maya tourist railroad in Mexico are ceremoniously inaugurated, the fight against the impacts of railroad construction in the rainforest continues.

Herd of elephants in Serengeti

74,208 supporters

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

Tanzania’s government plans to evict over 20,000 people under the pretext of conservation by doubling the size of Ruaha National Park. The World Bank is enabling this move.

An African elephant

Jan 29, 2024

Trophy hunting: Debunking the hunting lobby’s lies

Rainforest Rescue has long said NO to tourists shooting elephants, rhinos and lions for fun. Belgium is leading the way with a trophy import ban.

Protest on a beach of Nias Island in Indonesia

68,153 supporters

Indonesia: Fight the marine bitumen spill off Nias Island!

An environmental disaster is unfolding off the island of Nias: The wreck of the tanker MT AASHI is leaking bitumen. Call on the Indonesian government to take action!

Aerial view of the Brumadinho dam collapse, February 2019

Brazil

One of Brazil's largest socio-environmental and labor tragedies – five years on

One of Brazil's most notorious socio-environmental and labor disasters, the Brumadinho dam failure case still haunts the nation five years on.

Aerial view of an oil spill on a river in Nigeria

62,284 supporters

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

Environmentalists in Africa are pushing back against the fossil fuel industry. Yet the German government wants to import more oil and gas from there.

Graphic of crowd with "Save Aru" banner, ocean and ships in background

Indonesia

Indonesia: Carbon trading scheme threatens Aru Islands

Carbon traders want to commercialize the rainforest of the Aru Islands between Australia and New Guinea. The #SaveAru coalition is calling for the plan to be rejected.

A group of Indigenous people with protest banners in front of a hut covered with palm fronds

Brazil

Brazil: US carbon traders stoke conflict among Indigenous Ka'apor

The Indigenous Ka'apor do not want carbon projects in their ancestral territory and the rainforest of the Brazilian Amazon.

Montage: an elephant coated in crude oil - StopEACOP

Tanzania

Tanzania: Is construction of the EACOP pipeline about to begin?

Construction of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline EACOP is apparently about to begin. Pipes for 100 kilometers arrived in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, in December 2023.

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