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.
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!
Cambodia: Emergency aid for our imprisoned partners
Since July 2, five members of the Cambodian environmental group Mother Nature Cambodia have been unjustly imprisoned. We are raising funds for legal and humanitarian aid.
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Brazil: Keep Deutsche Bahn out of Amazonia!
We call on the German government and the state-owned Deutsche Bahn AG not to participate in the destructive GPM project in the Amazon rainforest.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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!
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.
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.
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.
Indonesia: The Afsya people secure 40,000 hectares of forest in West Papua!
40,000 hectares of West Papuan rainforest are safe! Seven Indigenous communities and their forests have been officially recognized – a major victory after years of struggle.
Borneo’s Dayak people a big step closer to formal recognition
A success after ten years of struggle for their rights: The Indigenous Dayak Tomun of Kubung village have applied for recognition as a community under Indigenous law.
Speaking out against Tesla’s German Gigafactory, mining in the global South
Protesters are calling for a stop to the expansion of the Tesla Gigafactory near Berlin. Rainforest Rescue took part to speak out against destructive mining.