Current Campaigns on Rettet den Regenwald e.V. // Rainforest Rescue en http://www.rainforest-rescue.org/ Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:10:01 GMT 360 Rainforest Conservation Environmental Protection Indigenous communities in the Lacandon Forest in Chiapas are being violently evicted by federal police and army forces , in support of corporate plans for oil palm expansion and other activities, including tourism falsely called eco-tourism. Please write to the authorities in Mexico and in Chiapas state to support local communities’and organisations’ calls for an immediate end to the evictions and the return of evicted comunities to their land, restitution for the damage which has been caused, the prosecution of those responsible and for an end of oil palm monocultures in the area. http://www.rainforest-rescue.org/protestaktion.php?id=543 Tue, 9 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.rainforest-rescue.org/protestaktion.php?id=543 A US bill calls for logging so-called ‘excessive biomass’ including in US National Parks and heating them in order to produce fine-grained charcoal to be used in soils, called ‘biochar’. If this bill is approved, it will set a precedent that will make ‘carbon offsets’ from ‘biochar’ more likely. This is likely to seriously damage fragile ecosystems, worsen climate change and lead to yet more tree monocultures http://www.rainforest-rescue.org/protestaktion.php?id=545 Tue, 9 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.rainforest-rescue.org/protestaktion.php?id=545 Shell is planning to make the largest ever investment in biofuels by joining with Brazilian company Cosan to take a large share of the sugar cane market. Sugar cane production is linked to the destruction of cerrado and forest, including Amazon, and Cosan is embroiled in a debate with the Brazilian government over the use of slave labour. Email Shell asking them to pull out of this proposed venture and to invest in true renewables instead. http://www.rainforest-rescue.org/protestaktion.php?id=531 Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.rainforest-rescue.org/protestaktion.php?id=531 “The forest is not for sale! The forest will be defended!” Those are the calls from indigenous peoples in Peru defending their territories. Deep inside the Peruvian Amazon forest, in the regions San Martín and Loreto, thousands of hectares of virgin rainforest are being destroyed and converted to oil palm plantations at the hands of the powerful Romero Group (Grupo Romero), supported by the policies of the government of Peru. Without any public consultation, this palm oil company has been awarded concessions over thousands of hectares of rainforest. http://www.rainforest-rescue.org/protestaktion.php?id=529 Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.rainforest-rescue.org/protestaktion.php?id=529 To meet the growing demand for agrofuels, Addax Bioenergy, a subsidiary of the Swiss-based oil, gas and mining corporation Addax & Onyx Group, is planning to acquire up to 20,000 ha of farmland in north-western Sierra Leone for a sugar cane plantation and an ethanol refinery. Ethanol will be produced exclusively for the European market. Investment deals for a total of £210 million are being considered by six European investment and development funds as well as by the African Development Bank. Please help to say no to this destructive land grab. http://www.rainforest-rescue.org/protestaktion.php?id=523 Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.rainforest-rescue.org/protestaktion.php?id=523 IKEA’s cheap candles are a consumer attraction. There is, however, a reason for the low price: In order to sell cheap candles and tea lights, IKEA uses palm oil and palm stearin. The company is aware of the negative consequences for the rainforest. Nonetheless, IKEA uses 32,000 tonnes of palm oil for candle wax alone. Please call on IKEA to stop using palm oil for candle wax. http://www.rainforest-rescue.org/protestaktion.php?id=515 Tue, 9 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.rainforest-rescue.org/protestaktion.php?id=515 The Commission would like to rename palm oil plantations as “forest” in order that biodiesel from palm oil plantations can still meet EU biofuels sustainability criteria. Palm oil expansion is a major cause of tropical rainforest destruction and biodiesel from palm oil can easily cause more greenhouse gas emissions that the fossil fuel it is meant to replace. Help stop the Commission from classifying biodiesel from palm oil as “sustainable” and ask them to ensure that unsustainable palm oil does not count towards our renewable energy obligations. http://www.rainforest-rescue.org/protestaktion.php?id=514 Fri, 5 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.rainforest-rescue.org/protestaktion.php?id=514 Join the signature campaign to encourage the government of Bangladesh to implement the CHT Peace Accord as promised. The goal is to collect 100,000 signatures by March 5th. 2010 (the deadline has been extended!!!), to be submitted to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Please sign the petition below to help the Jumma peoples regain control over their forests, lands, and destiny. http://www.rainforest-rescue.org/protestaktion.php?id=509 Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.rainforest-rescue.org/protestaktion.php?id=509 In 2007, Ecuador surprised the world with a unique proposal: The government declared that 850 million gallons of heavy oil, found beneath the rainforest, should not be exploited and sold. In exchange, the country requires financial support from the international community. Many governments and organizations around the world have already promised funds. Now, however, President Correa of Ecuador threatens to begin the exploitation of oil fields beneath the Yasuni rainforest http://www.rainforest-rescue.org/protestaktion.php?id=507 Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.rainforest-rescue.org/protestaktion.php?id=507 Delmas shipping, a Belgian subsidiary of French shipping giant CMA-CGM, is planning to ship hundreds of containers of illegally logged ancient rainforest logs from Madagascar to China anytime soon. Post-coup illegal log and wildlife trade continue to threaten Madagacar's biodiversity rich rainforest remnants, ecological sustainability and future potential for national advancement. http://www.rainforest-rescue.org/protestaktion.php?id=499 Sun, 20 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.rainforest-rescue.org/protestaktion.php?id=499 A UN board has decided that soya, palm oil and other agrofuel plantations can now receive carbon credits through the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). The agrofuel industry, already boosted by EU and US targets, incentives and subsidies, can now look forward to hundreds of millions of extra subsidies. Please sign a letter to protest against this decision, which will cause more climate change, more deforestation, more land-grabbing, more water depletion and environmental contamination and more hunger. http://www.rainforest-rescue.org/protestaktion.php?id=494 Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.rainforest-rescue.org/protestaktion.php?id=494 Throughout the world millions of people are being affected by the climate crisis. However the Climate Change Convention, a United Nations body set up to take the necessary decisions to save the world from a planetary disaster, has not been able to achieve its basic objectives. Sign an open letter to the Climate Convention to protest against this. http://www.rainforest-rescue.org/protestaktion.php?id=491 Thu, 3 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.rainforest-rescue.org/protestaktion.php?id=491 Recently, there has been a debate in the Dutch Parliament about the outcomes of the Round Table on Responsible Soja RTRS and the financial and political support provided by the Dutch government for this 'greenwashing' exercise. This is the moment to send them a clear message to tell them that the RTRS is not the solution to the problems caused by soy production. Please sign this letter today. http://www.rainforest-rescue.org/protestaktion.php?id=464 Tue, 6 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.rainforest-rescue.org/protestaktion.php?id=464 The Tasmanian Devil could suffer the same fate as the Tasmanian Tiger, which died out in 1936. The Austrian industrial plant builder Andritz is to build one of the world's largest cellulose factories in Tasmania, Australia, for the Gunns hardwood and softwood forest products corporation, Australia's largest in the field. The huge industrial project endangers some 200,000 hectares of old growth forest. And as the forest disappears, so could the unique Tasmanian Devil, the biggest carnivorous marsupial. http://www.rainforest-rescue.org/protestaktion.php?id=460 Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.rainforest-rescue.org/protestaktion.php?id=460 BP is planning to invest 4 billion Euros in Brazil for the production of sugar cane ethanol. Their first ethanol refinery started production last year and a second one is in planning. Ethanol is lucrative, due to government targets for agrofuels. It requires vast sugar cane plantations which destroy Brazil’s Cerrado savannah and threatens rainforests. http://www.rainforest-rescue.org/protestaktion.php?id=453 Sat, 12 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.rainforest-rescue.org/protestaktion.php?id=453