Brazil: RSPO certification suspended for Agropalma oil palm plantations
Courts in Pará, Brazil, have ruled that the palm oil company Agropalma has illegally and fraudulently appropriated a large part of the land it claims.
Ecuador: Killing of activist Eduardo Medúa – Indigenous people accuse government and state oil company
The killers of Eduardo Medúa and those who hired them must be brought to justice. No to oil drilling in the Indigenous territories in the Amazon rainforest!
Guatemala: Stop the palm oil industry’s violence against the Maya!
Conflicts arising from land grabbing and pollution by the palm oil and nickel industries are leading to violence against the Maya people.
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SLAPP lawsuit against Rainforest Rescue struck down
After more than three years, a lawsuit filed against Rainforest Rescue before the Regional Court in Hamburg, Germany, has ended – not with a bang but with a whimper.
Oil boom in Africa: “End economic colonization!”
The planned EACOP pipeline and two other oil projects are threatening people and the environment in Uganda, including Murchison Falls National Park.
Amazonia: NO to deforestation for biomass power plants in French Guiana!
Thousands of hectares of Amazon rainforest are threatened by the planned expansion of the biomass industry in French Guiana. Please help put an end to the plans.
Brazil: genocide of the Yanomami people uncovered
The Yanomami people in the Amazon rainforest are dying of introduced diseases, starvation and mercury poisoning. The new Brazilian government is intervening.
Sumatra: rangers injured by tiger in Leuser Ecosystem
Protecting Sumatran forests as a ranger is a dangerous job: In late January, a team of four rangers supported by Rainforest Rescue was attacked by a tiger.
Kinipan village chief acquitted
Indonesia’s Supreme Court has rejected the trumped-up charges against the village chief of Kinipan, Willem Hengki. This is a victory for all defenders of Borneo’s forests.
Stronger protections put in place for pangolins and elephants
Elephants and pangolins are now better protected than ever before. Hundreds of thousands signed our petitions calling for stronger conservation laws.
Brazil: Rainforest Rescue petition leads to federal police investigation
Indigenous people in Brazil face harrassment, eviction and even death for defending their forests against loggers, cattle ranchers, agribusiness and mining companies.
Indonesia: Indigenous rainforest guardians released from prison
Three wrongly convicted Indigenous rainforest guardians are free after months in prison. The men were able to rely on the solidarity of Rainforest Rescue.
EU establishes law to fight global deforestation
The EU has put a regulation on deforestation-free supply chains in place that tightens the conditions for importing commodities such as wood, palm oil and soy into the EU.
COP 15: Can the UN stop the extinction crisis?
Can we stop the mass extinction of animal and plant species? Nothing less is at stake at the UN Biodiversity Conference from December 7 to 19 in Montréal.
Petition delivered to UN – “A better way to protect biodiversity”
Rainforest Rescue delivered a petition with more than 65,000 signatures to the Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, Elizabeth Maruma Mrema.