Petitions for rainforest protection
Your signature can make a real difference. Our petitions expose destructive projects and name the perpetrators. Together we can have an even greater impact!
Brazil: Protect the mangroves and tropical forests of Tauá-Mirim!
We must act now to protect the mangroves, forests, rivers, and traditional community livelihoods of Tauá-Mirim in the Amazon region.
Cambodia: Save Prey Lang Forest!
Prey Lang, Cambodia’s largest lowland rainforest, is protected; however, the government continues to grant concessions for agriculture and industry.
Brazil: Keep US carbon traders OUT of the Ka’apor rainforest!
The US company Wildlife Works is trying to push through a carbon credits project in the rainforest of the Indigenous Ka'apor people.
Spain: Pass a law to protect great apes NOW!
The Spanish government must urgently pass a law to protect the great apes to prevent their misuse as objects of entertainment or trade.
Indonesia: Stop the destruction of Papua’s Marind forest!
Indonesia is implementing a sugar and ethanol program in southern Papua under military protection. Two million hectares of rainforest and Indigenous land are at risk.
DRC: Exploitation of mineral resources and forests fuels violence
Our demand for natural resources drives shocking violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The EU must therefore end its partnership on critical raw materials.
DRC: Stop harassing Congo's environmental defenders!
Gorillas, bonobos, okapi – the Democratic Republic of Congo is one of the most biodiverse countries in the world. Yet illegal logging remains a grave threat.
Biodiversity offsetting is a false solution: Nature is not a commodity!
Governments and the UN want to stop the mass extinction currently underway by turning nature into a tradable commodity: Biodiversity offsets are not the answer.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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!
Stop APRIL, Indonesia’s ruthless paper and pulp giant!
The paper giant APRIL/RGE is destroying rainforests and the livelihoods of local communities. We call on banks and investors to end their business ties with APRIL/RGE!
Palm oil in Brazil: Return stolen community land, end the violence!
Please help protect the Amazon rainforest and forest communities from land grabbing and violence by the palm oil industry.
Protect savannas: NO to misguided “reforestation”!
Forests are true climate saviors. Instead of misguided tree-planting projects, conserving existing forests is vital to a healthy planet.
World Bank: Stop financing evictions and human rights abuses in Tanzania!
Tanzania’s government plans to evict over 20,000 people under the pretext of conservation by doubling the size of Ruaha National Park. The World Bank is enabling this move.
Indonesia: Fight the marine bitumen spill off Nias Island!
An environmental disaster is unfolding off the island of Nias: The wreck of the tanker MT AASHI is leaking bitumen. Call on the Indonesian government to take action!
The oil industry is devastating Nigeria’s environment – for Germany’s benefit?
Environmentalists in Africa are pushing back against the fossil fuel industry. Yet the German government wants to import more oil and gas from there.
Panama: NO to copper mining in the rainforest!
The rainforest, biodiversity and clean water need to come before millions of dollars for destroyed nature and a polluted environment.
Indonesia: NO to a gold mine in Sumatra’s tiger forest!
A proposed gold mine threatens the Leuser Ecosystem and with it tigers, elephants, rhinos and orangutans. Please support the environmentalists on Sumatra.
Do not sell out Liberia's forests for Dubai's climate excesses!
Liberia is about to hand over ten percent of its land to a UAE-based company that plans to “harvest” carbon credits, trampling the rights of forest communities.
Indonesia: NO to the wholesale deforestation of the Mentawai islands!
Help us stop a large-scale logging permit in Sipora. Mentawai Indigenous people need your help to protect their land, access to water, their livelihood and their home.
EU: Don't let big polluters off the hook. Say no to carbon offsets!
Offsetting CO2 emissions is not an effective climate protection measure. Call on the EU not to certify such loopholes. We need real reductions now!
Cambodia: Save Koh Kong Island!
Cambodia’s largest island is virtually untouched, but now “development” is looming. Please support our Cambodian partners' call to make Koh Kong a national park.
Ecuador: Stop land grabbing and racial discrimination for palm oil!
Afro-Ecuadorian communities are fighting back against the expansion of the palm oil industry and against racism and discrimination by the justice system.
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.
Brazil: Stop land grabbing and violence for “fair and sustainable” palm oil!
Palm oil from the Brazilian company Agropalma is supposedly organic, fair trade and sustainable, yet many of the plantations are likely on illegally appropriated land.
A better way to protect biodiversity: strengthening indigenous rights!
In December 2022, the UN Conference on Biological Diversity will rule that 30 percent of the planet’s surface should be protected worldwide by 2030 – a problematic plan.
Stop the torching of the Amazon rainforest!
The deforestation and fires that are destroying the Amazon rainforest are a threat to the entire planet. Please sign our petition.
DR Congo: Stop the destruction by miners and loggers in Tshopo!
The Democratic Republic of the Congo is home to the second largest rainforest on Earth. Defending it is crucial to the fight against climate change and extinction.
Stop biofuels: Keep food out of fuel tanks!
Despite looming famine and soaring food prices, some countries continue to produce biofuels from grains and edible oils.
Don’t plunder the rainforest for wind energy!
The use of huge quantities of tropical balsa wood by the wind power industry is leading to overexploitation and social conflicts in the rainforests of Ecuador.
Brazil: Stop genetically modified eucalyptus trees!
A paper and pulp company wants to plant glyphosate-resistant, genetically modified eucalyptus trees in Brazil. Please speak out against this potentially disastrous plan.
DRC: Do not sacrifice Congo's rainforests to the oil industry!
President Tshisekedi wants to sacrifice large areas of the Congo rainforest to the oil industry. This would be a disaster for the climate, biodiversity and local people.
Brazil: The Ka'apor people need our support!
The Ka'apor are seeking international support in defending their recognized ancestral rainforest territory, Alto Turiaçu, from loggers, land speculators and prospectors.
Paraguay: give the Manjui people their land NOW!
The survival of the indigenous Manjui in Paraguay is at stake: Although the state acquired 38,406 hectares of land for them in 1998, it was never put in their name.
Yes to the ‘green revolution' – but without copper and nickel from the rainforest!
We consume far more metals than is sustainable, and electric cars are exacerbating the problem. We need to transition to a circular economy and new mobility concepts.
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.
Release detained Myanmar environmental & human rights defender NOW!
Kyaw Min Htut, a forest and human rights defender, has been detained in Myanmar by the military. We demand his release immediately.
Protect the world’s last okapis from gold mining!
The Okapi Wildlife Reserve in DRC is home to a large population of endangered okapis and chimpanzees, but rampant gold mining could spell the end for the protected area.
NO to a ‘Jurassic Park’ for Komodo dragons!
The Indonesian government wants to create a ‘Jurassic Park’ for luxury tourists – with no regard for the Komodo dragons, the stunning underwater world or local communities.
Tanzania: stop the eviction of the Maasai from Ngorongoro!
Tanzania’s Ngorongoro Crater is famous for its wildlife. Now the government wants to promote tourism – and evict more than 80,000 indigenous Maasai people.
Nigeria: save Cross River State's unique forests!
Spectacular trees reach for the sky in one of the last rainforests in Nigeria. They could soon be destroyed by rampant illegal logging and a new logging road.
Is burning trees the new coal? Say NO to fake “renewables”!
Stop the destruction of Namibia’s savannas – its bushes and trees must not be processed into fuel for German power plants.
Ecuador: Stop the violence by the mining industry!
Hanrine, and Australian mining company, is trying to push through gold and copper mining in northern Ecuador against the express will of local people.
Protect Amazonia – NO to the EU-Mercosur Free Trade Agreement!
A free trade agreement between the EU and Mercosur would incentivize environmental crimes in South America. We need to stop its ratification!
DRC: Release the palm oil protesters jailed in Mwingi!
Local activists who oppose the palm oil company PHC in the Democratic Republic of the Congo were jailed following a protest march.
Keep the oil industry out of Africa’s natural treasures!
Nature, wildlife and scarce water supplies in a unique corner of southern Africa are being endangered by a rush to drill for oil.
Stop the destruction of Borneo's proboscis monkey forest!
Proboscis monkeys and other endangered species are threatened by a company destroying the coastal forest in Borneo for a palm oil refinery and a biodiesel plant.
Stop Nigeria's lawless palm oil juggernaut!
Plantation companies in Nigeria are clearing forests with breathtaking speed and leaving destroyed livelihoods and human rights violations in their wake.
Keep plantations out of Palawan Forest!
Palawan's unique biodiversity and indigenous territories are irreplaceable! Tell the government to stop the expansion of industrial plantations.
NO to “Food Estates” in the peat forests of Borneo!
The vast peat bog forests of Borneo could soon be destroyed for industrial rice farms. Nearly 200 Indonesian NGOs and conservationists are saying NO! to the plan.
Stop APP, Indonesia's brutal paper and pulp giant!
APP, an Indonesian paper company, is destroying forests and routinely violating the rights of local people. Numerous NGOs are calling for a boycott of APP.
Shut down wildlife markets NOW!
It’s time to shut down wildlife markets and their brisk business in endangered and poached animals. They are a threat to both biodiversity and human health.
Electric vehicles are stealth rainforest killers!
Electric vehicles are stealth rainforest killers: the production of "clean" electric cars takes vast amounts of raw materials that are often mined in rainforest areas.
Stop bulldozing the Tapanuli orangutan!
A dam for a 510 MW hydropower plant in Batang Toru forest on Sumatra could spell oblivion for the recently discovered Tapanuli orangutan.
Uganda: keep the oil in the ground – save Murchison Falls!
Uganda sits on vast oil resources, and three multinational companies are ready to drill – in of all places, Murchison Falls National Park.
NO to tourist trains in the Mayan rainforest!
An absurd infrastructure project: A high-speed train from the Caribbean coast, through the Mexican rainforest to the ancient Mayan pyramids?
URGENT: Please help us save Kinipan forest!
In Borneo’s Kinipan, the indigenous Dayak Tomun people are struggling to save their forest. SML, the company behind the loggers, wants their land for a palm oil plantation.
STOP dirty deals with palm oil!
CEPA, a free trade agreement between the EU and Indonesia, could open the floodgates for palm oil imports to Europe. Tell the negotiators to exclude palm oil from CEPA.
Ghana: don’t sell your nature to China
Ghana’s Atewa Forest is home to rare plants and animals – and rich in bauxite deposits that the government wants to monetize. Please speak out against this disastrous plan.
Sulawesi: stop dredging paradise for concrete!
Vast quantities of sand are being mined illegally near Palu and in Donggala district on Sulawesi for concrete and land reclamation. Our partner JATAM is sounding the alarm.
Don’t trash the rainforest for “green” jet fuel!
The aviation industry wants to achieve “carbon-neutral growth” with carbon offsets and biofuels. Please take a stand against this blatant greenwashing.
Protect Leuser's iconic wildlife!
The Leuser Ecosystem is the only place where orangutans, tigers, elephants and rhinos share a habitat. But a new land use plan could open it for plantations and mining.
We need our land, not oil palms!
Stop the expansion of oil palm plantations that is endangering the Philippines' biodiversity, water resources, topsoil and the livelihood of farmers and indigenous people.
Paraguay: Protect forests, safeguard Indigenous culture!
The lands, livelihoods, and culture of three Indigenous peoples of Paraguay’s Chaco forest – the Nivaĉle, Manjui, and Maká of the Pilcomayo River – are under threat.
Germany’s aluminum boom, Guinea’s environmental doom: Take action now!
Aluminum is a crucial raw material for German industry. However, its production has been associated with serious human rights abuses and extensive environmental damage.
Ecuador: All eyes on Yasuní - Keep the oil in the ground!
The Ecuadorian people voted to protect Yasuní. Ecuador’s Constitutional Court must order the government to end oil production in Block 43.
Tell the EU to stand firm against deforestation!
The EU Regulation on Deforestation-Free Supply Chains is an important signal against global deforestation. Please speak out against vested interests trying to undermine it.
Brazil: Howler monkeys need protection from deadly electric shocks!
Howler monkeys in the Brazilian city of Porto Alegre are being killed or seriously injured by electric shocks from improperly insulated power lines and pylons.