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Orangutan portrait

70,834 supporters

Indonesia: Protect the habitat of Tripa’s orangutans!

Officially, the peat forests of Sumatra are protected as a habitat for critically endangered orangutans. The encroachment of oil palm plantations must stop NOW!

Children in Kanya Bayonga

49,668 supporters

DRC: People and nature in eastern Congo need peace!

For 30 years, the people of the eastern DRC have endured constant violence. Now, the conflict is heating up again. The people and nature of the DRC need peace.

Maasai women and men in colorful cloths at a market, a woman looks at the camera

Tanzania

Tanzania: Government backs down after Maasai protests

Tanzania’s government tried to strip 100,000 Maasai of voting rights to force them from their lands. After protests, the plan was reversed.

Aerial view of two large rectangular deforested areas and access roads cut into the forest

Argentina

Court suspends deforestation of Argentina‘s Chaco

A court order gives the environment and the people suffering from the corruption-driven deforestation of Chaco a reprieve.

Smallholder families receive legal support from CPT Maranhão

Brazil

Brazil: Smallholder families successfully defend land against agribusiness giant

Brazilian smallholder families received legal assistance to take on an agribusiness giant and fight for their ancestral land.

Indigenous Batwa: women and children in a village near Bukavu

Democratic Republic of the Congo

DRC: Expulsion of the Batwa people ruled unjust

The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights has issued a historic ruling in favor of the Indigenous Batwa: They have the right to return to their ancestral lands.

Group of Indigenous Awyu in traditional clothing

Indonesia

Indonesia: Prestigious award for Papua’s Indigenous Awyu activists

A great honor for the Indigenous Awyu from Boven Digoel in southern Papua: the Indonesian Tasrif Prize for freedom of the press and freedom of expression.

Residents of Brooke’s Point form a human barricade in front of Ipilan Nickel Corporation’s mining site

59,228 supporters

Philippines: Help us save Palawan’s forests!

The Philippine government is opening vast areas of rich biodiversity and Indigenous land to mining. Please sign our petition – speak out against this crime against nature!

Arrest of an activist from Mother Nature Cambodia

Cambodia

Mother Nature Cambodia activists sentenced to six to eight years for defending nature

A Phnom Penh court sentenced environmental activists from Mother Nature Cambodia to lengthy prison terms on Tuesday, July 2. We demand their immediate release!

Imprisoned Mother Nature Cambodia activists

103,914 supporters

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

Six jailed members of the Mother Nature Cambodia environmental movement face up to ten years in prison for peacefully protesting environmental crimes.

Photomontage: A chainsaw before an aerial view of the Chaco forest

72,092 supporters

Argentina: Stop the Chaco forest chainsaw massacre!

The province of Chaco has just removed protection from hundreds of thousands of hectares of forest. Tell the government to reverse this disastrous move.

A single-engined light plane sprays pesticides over a soy plantation

69,184 supporters

Brazil: Ban the aerial spraying of pesticides!

Industrial soy producers in Brazil are attacking small farmers by spraying pesticides over people and their crops using planes and drones.

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