More current protest actions
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Orangutans – victims of “sustainable” palm oil
In Borneo, several starving orangutans have been rescued after their forest homes were clear-cut for a palm oil plantation. The rainforest was bulldozed by BGA, a member of the RSPO – the organization issuing the label for sustainable palm oil. Please act now to stop this madness!
Start of campaign: 4/11/13 ∣ 100,168 participants to date -
Ecuador: Copper Mine threatens spectacled bears
There are large copper reserves underneath Ecuador’s Toisan Mountains. The government wants to turn these into money – the people, the montane rainforests as well as the spectacled bears would have to give way. The inhabitants want to preserve nature and are asking for our support: Sign the petition to President Correa
Start of campaign: 4/1/13 ∣ 70,303 participants to date -
Stop the exploitation in the mountains of Tanzania
The land surrounding Chome in northern Tanzania is drying up. The illegal exploitation in Mount Shengena, at which bottom the village is located, is to blame for that. A dubious company is mining for bauxite with giant excavators – and destroys the water source of the entire region. Help the residents to save their land
Start of campaign: 3/18/13 ∣ 54,307 participants to date -
Philippines: power plant threatens rare cockatoos
The Philippine cockatoo is facing extinction. Only around 1,000 of these magnificent birds remain, and the largest population can be found on Rasa, a tiny island just off Palawan in the Philippines. This location – of all places – has been chosen for a coal power plant. Please urge the Philippine authorities to stop the plans.
Start of campaign: 3/11/13 ∣ 66,235 participants to date -
Honduras: World Bank palm oil loans linked to murders
In 2009, the World Bank lent $15 m to Dinant, an Honduran palm oil company implicated in violent land conflicts and murders. Although the World Bank’s Ombudsman is now looking into the project, a second instalment could soon be paid to Dinant. Please tell the World Bank to cancel the loan and prevent similar loans in future
Start of campaign: 3/1/13 ∣ 66,648 participants to date -
To the EU energy ministers: Stop “biofuels” now!
The European agrofuel policy has been shown the red card by researchers. Under pressure, the EU Commission will now revisit the policy. However, the only proposals on the table are bad compromises – at the continued expense of the environment. Join us in demanding an end to agrofuels!
Start of campaign: 2/20/13 ∣ 78,244 participants to date -
Cambodia: Our rainforest needs protection
Cambodia's government is destroying one of the country’s natural treasures. Logging operations, plantations and mining companies are penetrating ever deeper into primeval forests. Residents of the unique Prey Lang lowland rainforest are asking for our support in their fight to have their entire forest recognized as a protected area.
Start of campaign: 2/13/13 ∣ 62,642 participants to date -
Malaysia sacrifices its elephants for palm oil
Over the past weeks, 14 Borneo pygmy elephants were poisoned in the Malaysian state of Sabah. The rare animals are considered pests on the oil palm plantations that are rapidly eating into the rainforests. Please call for an immediate end to the destruction of rainforests and for the protection of the elephants – Update: Mar 22, 2013
Start of campaign: 2/1/13 ∣ 109,180 participants to date -
Guiana’s living treasures are more valuable than gold
The French government has authorized the mining of gold in the Guiana Amazonian Park in French Guiana. By issuing the mining concession, Paris is not only ignoring the interests of the park’s inhabitants and the national park administration, but also violating national law. Please support the protest the rainforest advocates
Start of campaign: 1/22/13 ∣ 60,860 participants to date -
DR Congo: Oil company threatens gorilla forest
380 of the rare mountain gorillas live in Virunga National Park in large family groups. Now Britain’s SOCO International plc wants to drill for oil in the park. This would be the end of the park and of the gorillas. Please demand the preservation of Virunga National Park! – Update: Jan 4, 2013
Start of campaign: 12/21/12 ∣ 65,221 participants to date -
Rainforest destruction imported duty-free
On December 11, the European Parliament will vote on a free trade agreement between the EU, Colombia and Peru. 148 conflicts with commodities companies are ongoing in Peru alone, yet human rights and environmental concerns remain sidelined. Please call on members of the Parliament to vote against this trade agreement.
Start of campaign: 12/3/12 ∣ 61,299 participants to date -
Toxic gold mining in the Caribbean
With its magnificent beaches and rolling green hills, the Dominican Republic is a vacation paradise. That could soon be history, however. Two Canadian companies intend to mine for gold on a massive scale in the rainforest. The cyanide to be used would poison the water and soils. Please support the protest of the Dominicans.
Start of campaign: 11/26/12 ∣ 47,260 participants to date -
No oil drilling in the Amazon rainforest!
“We do not want oil drilling on our land. We intend to protect the last remaining rainforests for the benefit of Ecuador and the world as a whole.” With this appeal, seven indigenous nations are calling for worldwide support against the government’s plans to open the Amazon region to oil drilling. Please support the petition.
Start of campaign: 11/17/12 ∣ 67,207 participants to date -
Last Minute Call to Stop the Chainsaws
„Please help us to stop the loggers in the forest!“ With this call, villagers from Santa Rosa del Limón in Colombia urge us to help them saving their rainforest and livelihoods. So far, the forest in the region has been spared from logging. Now, a large timber company has started marking trees and dredging rivers to transport logs. – Update: Jan 24, 2013
Start of campaign: 11/12/12 ∣ 74,028 participants to date -
Stop biofuels now!
Experts on world hunger are sounding the alarm over biofuels, which are aggravating famine conditions and driving food prices higher. Agriculturally produced fuels are also harmful to the environment and climate: Rainforests are being cleared, biodiversity decimated and vast amounts of CO2 released. We call on the EU to abolish biofuels
Start of campaign: 10/16/12 ∣ 60,299 participants to date -
Stop Monsanto Soy!
South America’s tropical forests are being cleared to make room for soy plantations. Monocultures of Monsanto GMO soybeans are taking up ever more space – and are being sprayed with highly toxic herbicides. Millions of tons of these soybeans are fed to livestock in Europe. Please demand an import ban for soybeans now.
Start of campaign: 9/17/12 ∣ 85,862 participants to date -
2,000 Bornean orangutans need our help
In the midst of ancient rainforest, the British company Churchill Mining is planning to exploit coal – and is taking the Indonesian state to court about it. This project is endangering more than 2,000 orangutans living in the Kutai national park. Please write to Churchill and the Indonesian government. No mining in the orangutan forest!
Start of campaign: 7/20/12 ∣ 58,147 participants to date -
Stop IKEA logging old-growth forests in Russia
Furniture giant IKEA is clear-cutting Russian woods – including many old-growth forests. Centuries-old trees are felled and the sensitive soils are destroyed by the heavy harvester vehicles. Such is by no means "responsible forestry", which IKEA promises its customers – Update: Dec 10, 2012
Start of campaign: 6/30/12 ∣ 66,386 participants to date -
EPA must not approve palm oil!
The rainforests are the lungs of our planet and must be protected. Stop the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from bowing to lobbyist pressure to overturn their recent decision that palm oil should not be included in the Renewable Fuel Standard
Start of campaign: 6/29/12 ∣ 73,196 participants to date -
Belo Monte: Your profits are ruining our lives
European companies are pocketing more than a billion Euros in return for their contribution to the mega dam Belo Monte in Brazil. But far from producing clean energy, this project comes at high costs for the environment and the local indigenous people. Please ask the European companies to back out of Belo Monte – Update: Aug 24, 2012
Start of campaign: 6/19/12 ∣ 40,757 participants to date -
Too cute to live? Save the slow lorises
The little slow loris is snatched from its mother, she is killed by the poachers. The baby has its teeth brutally pulled out with pliers, then merchants offer it for sale at the market. The ascending infection due to the mutilation kills a lot of his fellow primates. Please demand freedom and protection for the slow lorises – Update: Jan 28, 2013
Start of campaign: 5/29/12 ∣ 56,531 participants to date -
Help the Ngobe protect their rainforest
The rainforest of the indigenous tribe Ngobe is a natural paradise for reptiles and amphibians, such as the endangered Tabasara Rain Frog. Now, part of it could be drowned due to the hydroelectric dam project Barro Blanco. Please demand the protection of the Tabasara rainforest. – Update: Mar 15, 2013
Start of campaign: 5/9/12 ∣ 41,070 participants to date -
Save the coelacanth bay
This fish really is a biological sensation. Thought to have died out 65 million years ago, some of these living fossils are still swimming around the African coast. But their Marine Protected Area is threatened by plans for a deepwater port. Please demand the protection of the coelacanth bay.
Start of campaign: 5/2/12 ∣ 37,200 participants to date -
Stop Cargill – Stop the fires in the orangutan forest
Cargill is selling palm oil derived from the destruction of the Sumatran rainforest, home of the critically endangered orangutans. In doing so the company is participating in the deforestation of one of the world's most important ecological systems. Demand that Cargill immediately stop trading with dirty palm oil – Update: Jul 28, 2012
Start of campaign: 4/12/12 ∣ 47,061 participants to date -
Nicaragua: German Tax Money Destroys the Environment
Two conflicting projects in Nicaragua are being financed by the German government. Public funds are going toward the expansion of a palm oil plantation. Environmentalists are sounding the alarm, however: the plantation poses a threat to a strictly protected biosphere reserve. Small farmers are also protesting the project. The monocultures endanger their fields, which were also funded by German development aid.
Start of campaign: 1/20/12 ∣ 29,119 participants to date
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Penan Calling for Help: Stop the Loggers!
For years, the Penan people in Malaysia have been fighting the timber company Interhill. In an attempt to stop the loggers, the natives have set up a blockade on the roads running through the rainforest of Sarawak.
Start of campaign: 11/25/11 ∣ 28,799 participants to date
They are now calling on Interhill and the government of this South-East Asian country to halt their grubbing activities immediately. Interhill is a business partner of French hotel group Accor, operating a Pullman luxury hotel in Sarawak’s capital, Kuching.