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Oil palm plantations are closing in on the ancient rainforests of Sarawak's only UNESCO World Heritage Site, Mulu National Park. The local indigenous Berawan and Penan communities are resisting the pr…
Golden Veroleum Liberia (GVL), a palm oil company, holds hundreds of thousands hectares of land as an agricultural concession. GVL is now pushing to permit logging for export in its concession. Intern…
Bonobos, orangutans, chimpanzees and gorillas are facing extinction. Please support the Great Ape Project’s call for UNESCO to recognize our closest relatives as a Living World Heritage before it’s to…
With Bill PL 2.159/2021, the Brazilian parliament aims to drastically weaken environmental and rainforest protections. In the future, corporations would be able to issue their own environmental permit…
Prey Land is the largest and most significant lowland rainforest in the country. Because of its rich biodiversity, the Cambodian government designated it a protected area in 2016. However, concessions…
The people of the Tauá-Mirim region in the Amazon are urgently calling on the Brazilian government to protect their land. The rivers, mangroves and tropical forests south of São Luís in the state of M…
The Spanish government has pledged to pass a law to protect bonobos, orangutans, chimpanzees and gorillas as part of its Animal Welfare Act. It has not yet done so, and time is running out for our end…
Indonesia’s government is implementing a state-run sugar and ethanol program in southern Papua under military protection. Two million hectares of rainforest and Indigenous land are at risk – a signifi…
The violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo is not only a humanitarian catastrophe but also an environmental disaster. The exploitation of mineral resources and forests driven by neighboring Rwan…
Paraguay’s beef and soy industries are devastating the Chaco forest and putting the livelihoods and cultures of three Indigenous peoples at risk. Indigenous organizations have drafted a legislative pr…
Two years ago, the Ecuadorian people voted to leave oil in the ground forever in the Yasuni National Park in the Amazon rainforest. But the government has been dragging its feet for years to delay the…
Howler monkeys living in southern Brazil are threatened with extinction because their rainforest habitat is being cut down and fragmented. In the Porto Alegre area, dozens of the primates are being ki…
For 30 years, the people of the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have endured constant violence. Recently, the conflict has intensified: A rebel militia has taken control of the city of Goma…
The island of Palawan is a UNESCO Man and Biosphere Reserve – an internationally recognized ecological and cultural treasure. But now the Philippine government is opening vast areas of rich biodiversi…
Environmental activists in Africa are pushing back against the fossil fuel industry. Numerous oil and gas projects are endangering human health, the environment and the climate. Yet Germany wants to i…
Panama is in turmoil: The government of the Central American country triggered a deep crisis of confidence by ignoring public opinion and permitting a vast copper mine in the rainforest. Tens of thous…
Indonesia has granted a permit to a company for large-scale logging on Sipora in the Mentawai islands. Over the next 30 years, it will be allowed to clear 20,706 hectares of forests and Indigenous lan…
Communities in northern Ecuador are fighting back against land grabbing and deforestation by the palm oil industry. Yet instead of ensuring law and order, the Ecuadorian authorities are siding with th…
The Maya people are being brutalized by riot police in Guatemala. Local people say that the police raids in the rainforest around Lake Izabal are linked to their protests against land grabbing and pol…
Palm oil from Brazil's Agropalma sports no less than ten different seals: Certified as organic, fair and sustainable, the oil is sold to food giants such as Ferrero, Kellogg’s and Nestlé. But much of…
One million animal and plant species could become extinct if we don’t act to protect biodiversity. In December 2022, the UN Conference on Biological Diversity will therefore rule that 30 percent of th…
There is no doubt that we need to move to renewable energy as soon as possible – and above all, to dramatically reduce our energy and resource consumption. Wind turbines are a key part of that transit…
A draft law introduced under Brazil's former president Bolsonaro would open up indigenous territories for mining and hydropower projects. A quarter of the Amazon rainforest – an area nearly five times…
The Manjui people of the Chaco region of Paraguay are experiencing a silent ethnic cleansing: Their ancestral lands are being grabbed and its forest cleared by beef and charcoal producers. While the g…
The breeding area of the Humboldt penguins off the northern Chilean coast is a “hope spot” for life on earth. But as in the past, port and mining projects are once again threatening the vulnerable pen…
Environmental and human rights campaigner Kyaw Min Htut is one of many people facing threats from the military junta in Myanmar. He is currently detained by the military in an unknown facility. His li…
Okapi Wildlife Reserve in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is home to a significant population of endangered okapis and chimpanzees. A UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1996, it was degraded to “in…
Tanzania’s Ngorongoro Crater is renowned the world over for its wildlife and as the home of the indigenous Maasai people. To promote tourism, the government wants to enlarge the protected area – and e…
Komodo dragons are imposing, timeless creatures that could be straight out of ‘Jurassic Park’ – and that could be their undoing. The Indonesian government wants to lure rich tourists to Komodo Nationa…
The German government is supporting the clearing of millions of bushes and trees in Namibia under the pretext of protecting the savanna against “bush encroachment”. The resulting biomass is to be proc…
The Constitutional Court of Ecuador has a historic opportunity to rule in favor of the rights of nature enshrined in the country’s constitution: A major mining project in the Los Cedros Protected Fore…
Nature, wildlife and scarce water supplies in a unique corner of southern Africa are being endangered by a rush to drill for oil. A Canadian company is pushing to explore for oil in the Kavango Basin,…
The Bosawás and Indio Maíz Biosphere Reserves in Nicaragua are the largest tropical forests in the Americas after the Amazon. They have been protected by indigenous peoples for generations, but now th…
Unspoiled places with rich biodiversity on land and underwater still exist, even in an otherwise brutally deforested country like Cambodia. Koh Kong Island is such an untouched place – one that the go…
The Indonesian government is pursuing an insane project that could have consequences for everyone on this planet: The vast peat bog forests of Borneo could soon be destroyed for industrial rice farms.…
In Cameroon, the government wants to release 60,000 hectares of rainforest to be clear-cut for palm oil plantations. As the concession borders on Campo Ma’an National Park over a distance of fifty kil…
The illicit rosewood trade is destroying entire forests in West Africa and logging the species to extinction. Despite its national logging ban, Ghana is the hotspot of destruction. This forest crime n…
Fish and other seafood from aquaculture are often touted as an environmentally friendly alternative to conventional fishing, but the reality is much grimmer: fishing fleets are emptying the oceans to…
Uganda sits on vast oil resources, and three companies are ready to drill – in of all places, Murchison Falls National Park. A Chinese construction company is already expanding a road that cuts throug…
The noise of bulldozers and suction pumps reverberates along the Caqueta River in Colombia. Thousands of miners are illegally digging for gold in its sediments – and contaminating the river and surrou…
Bangladesh’s Sundarbans are the largest mangrove forest in the world and habitat of the Bengal tiger. These unique wetlands are threatened by plans for a coal-fired power plant that will have an incal…
An increasing share of Europe's palm and soy oil imports is literally going up in smoke, and tropical forests are being trashed to meet the demand for supposedly “green” fuels. The EU is phasing out p…
Campaigners against the palm oil industry are literally putting their lives on the line: Activist Joël Imbangola Lunea was beaten to death by a security guard of a palm oil company in the Democratic R…
A dam collapse in a Brazilian iron ore mine killed at least 157 people and polluted a vast downstream area with toxic metals. This disaster is a consequence of our appetite for steel for the automotiv…
A project by Mexican President López Obrador is threatening the rainforests on Yucatan peninsula: A new 1,500 km high-speed train line will ferry tourists from beach resorts on the Caribbean coast to…
In Borneo’s Kinipan – a lush peat forest and orangutan habitat – the Dayak Tomun are struggling to save their ancestral forest. SML, the company sending in the loggers, wants the indigenous people’s l…
China is lifting the ban on rhino horn and tiger bone: the government wants to permit their use in traditional Chinese medicine, even though they have no therapeutic value whatsoever. With a legal mar…
Gorillas, chimpanzees, forest elephants – the biodiversity of Itombwe Nature Reserve in DR Congo is amazing. And it’s there – of all places – that Banro, a Canadian company, is planning a gold mine. W…
Some of the last mountain gorillas roam the forests of Virunga National Park. The Congolese government, however, is less interested in this priceless treasure than in the dollar value of the oil under…
Hundreds of frog and other amphibian species are being wiped out by a highly contagious fungus. The disease, which has already driven at least 120 species to extinction, is being spread around the wor…
Tanzania’s government is moving ahead with its plans for a hydroelectric dam in Selous Game Reserve. A huge swath of the UNESCO World Heritage site and habitat of iconic African wildlife would suffer…
It’s absurd: Nestlé is extracting mineral water in the French town of Vittel, while locals will soon have to rely on a pipeline for their drinking water. And then there are the mountains of plastic wa…
The Canadian province of Alberta could become the scene of the world's largest open-pit mine for tar sand – the world's dirtiest fossil fuel. If realized, it would wipe out 292 square kilometers of fo…
From PET bottles and produce packaging to clothing, plastic is all around us. Yet only 30 percent is recycled in Europe, and the mountains of waste are growing. The EU wants to solve the problem with…
Aldabra Atoll in the Seychelles is a jewel of the Indian Ocean and home to thousands of giant tortoises. The diversity of fish and coral is astounding – yet the Indian military wants to build a base o…
Mining projects are endangering the natural treasures of Ecuador – and one of the biggest threats is a planned copper mine in the Intag region. The inhabitants of the rugged cloud forests northwest of…
President Trump wants to shrink a number of National Monuments and open them for mining and oil drilling. Irreplaceable natural treasures – including the Pacific Remote Islands, a marine reserve nearl…
Illegal timber from Southeast Asia – laundered with an EU seal of approval? That could soon become reality. The EU is preparing a trade deal on tropical timber with Vietnam, a hotbed of timber traffic…
There is nothing quite like Białowieża Forest in Poland. Untouched by humans for centuries, it is a treasure trove of biodiversity – but now loggers are firing up their chainsaws. Tell Poland’s govern…
ArborGen, a U.S.-based biotech lab, is seeking USDA approval for its freeze-resistant GE eucalyptus. If the company is successful, GE trees would open the planet’s temperate zones to the same practice…
French oil multinational Total is stepping up its reliance on palm oil and wants to build a “biorefinery” in Marseilles to meet allegedly growing demand for diesel fuel – and this in spite of the Euro…
The breeding grounds of the endangered Humboldt penguin off the northern coast of Chile are in danger: a mining company is planning an industrial port in the area to ship iron ore. Chilean environment…
French President Macron wants to open French Guiana's rainforest to industrial gold mining. A Russian-Canadian consortium is ready to dig a vast open-pit mine pending the French government's approval.…
The massive oil palm development in the Philippines has grave implications not only for indigenous people’s land, tradition and culture, but also the country’s environment and the lives of future gene…
The future looks grim for the critically endangered western chimpanzee. Protected areas are urgently needed to stop their habitat from shrinking further. Please lend our closest kin your voice and tel…
Rosewood logs spattered with red sap – as if they were bleeding – are laid out by the roadside. “If a ban is not enforced immediately, there will be nothing left,” warns conservationist Hazel Chapman.…
The inhabitants of Madagascar are struggling to preserve what remains of their unique natural heritage. Last year, environmentalist Armand Marozafy spent five months behind bars for blowing the whistl…
Food safety experts are warning of palm oil’s health risks: the refined oil contains contaminants that can cause cancer and organ damage. Toddlers and children are especially vulnerable. Tell the EU t…
The Atlantic off Rio de Janeiro is home to a dwindling population of Guiana dolphins. They urgently need protection – if they continue drowning in fishing nets at the present rate, they will be wiped…
Nothing compares to the Leuser Ecosystem on Sumatra. It's the last place on Earth where orangutans, tigers, elephants and rhinos share a habitat. That may soon be history – an Indonesian court is deci…
European institutions are financing cruelty to animals on a staggering scale. In a recent example, Belarus egg producer Servolux applied for funds from the EBRD, a European development bank, to build…
The Sundarbans – the world’s largest mangrove forest and home to Bengal tigers and millions of villagers – has weathered cyclones and tsunamis. Now the UNESCO World Heritage Site faces a new threat: t…
Spectacular trees reach for the sky in one of the last rainforests in densely-populated Nigeria. The forest – habitat of chimpanzees and forest elephants – is about to be destroyed for a superhighway…
Ecuador’s government is about to issue yet another oil drilling license in Yasuní National Park – one of the most biodiverse places on the planet and home to uncontacted indigenous people. Please spea…
One of the worst environmental disasters of our time is unfolding in Indonesia: every year, palm oil companies torch vast rainforest areas to expand their plantations. The EU’s biofuels policy is fann…
Bears and wolves still prowl the ancient forests of the Carpathian Mountains. Yet their days are numbered: organized criminals are illegally clear-cutting entire hillsides to supply European timber co…
NGOs operating in Tanzania are bracing for the big chill: draconian new laws will criminalize activists for disseminating anything the government deems inconvenient or embarrassing – including reports…
The Amazon rainforest is in grave danger: Brazil's President Bolsonaro is pushing to scrap environmental legislation and clear even more rainforest for soy monocultures, cattle, hydropower and mining.…
Millions of trees are due to be axed in Amazônia to make way for dams to generate electricity for mines and aluminum smelters. But the indigenous Mundurukú people aren’t taking the destruction of thei…
Bad news for the rainforest and its inhabitants: Indonesia’s President Widodo is planning a $1.35 billion biofuel subsidy that would dramatically speed up deforestation. Please speak out against this…
The beautiful cloud forests of Ecuador’s Intag region have a fatal flaw – they are standing on a deposit of copper ore. Villagers opposed to plans for a giant open-cast mine are being harassed and cri…
Relief may be in sight for Africa’s decimated elephant population: the EU is drawing up an action plan against wildlife crime, while the U.S. and China committed to enact nearly complete bans on ivory…
Most of Thailand’s forests have vanished over the past decades. And now, the government is planning to clear a broad swathe through a UNESCO World Heritage Site to expand a highway. Tell Thailand to p…
Every year, millions of monarch butterflies migrate thousands of miles to their winter homes in Mexico. Recently, their numbers have plunged by 90 percent: herbicides tailored to Monsanto’s GE crops a…
Codelco, a company owned by the Chilean state, wants to mine for copper in Ecuador’s rainforest – bad news for nature, biodiversity and water resources. We can’t let this happen. Please lend your voic…
Tasmania’s forests are home to some of the tallest trees in the world. With its unique landscape and archaeological sites, nearly a quarter of the island has been put under UNESCO protection, yet the…
The beauty of Lake Edward is unique: its banks are lined with lush rainforest, and the volcano range of Virunga National Park rises from the lowlands. But the home of the mountain gorillas in Congo is…
10 years ago, around 75,000 elephants roamed Selous – Africa’s second biggest population. Now, there are only 13,000 left. Lack of political will, business projects and mining threaten the nature rese…
In the Malaysian state of Sarawak on Borneo, rainforest dwellers are speaking out against the government’s plans to build twelve mega-dams that would destroy their homes and livelihoods. The indigenou…
The Atiwa forest is one of the most extensive intact rainforest areas in West Africa, a source of food and water for five million people and home to a wealth of rare plants and animals. Yet the Ghanai…
The Yasuní National Park in Ecuador is not only a unique natural treasure, it is also home to isolated indigenous peoples. The forest has been put off-limits to protect them from loggers and oil prosp…
The Philippine government plans to authorize more than 300,000 hectares of oil palm plantations on the islands of Mindanao and Palawan. The indigenous peoples are fighting back – they depend on their…
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…
380 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 g…
„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 Selous Game Reserve in Tanzania has been part of the UNESCO World Heritage since 1982. Now the UNESCO has agreed upon a boundary change – and therefore enabled uranium mining in this unique conser…
A catastrophic drought dominates in the USA. A large part of the harvest is already destroyed. The shortage of corn leads to rising food prices beyond US borders. US policy worsen the crisis by suppor…
Just like the armes of a river thousands of indigenous people stream in towards the capital of Ecuador, Quito. The protestors of this "march for water, life and human dignity" are criticising their go…
On a small island in northern Sulawesi, the district manager has greenlit an iron ore mine – and has violated several laws in doing so. The mining project would devastate the entire island and destroy…
The sea lions living off the Chilean coast have a thick fur that protects them from the cold of the Humboldt Current. But in this case, their fur won’t save the protected marine mammals. The governmen…
The BBC reports: Orangutans are treated as pest and exterminated on Indonesian and Malaysian palm oil plantations. In the last year alone, up to 1,800 orangutans were killed in Kalimantan (Indonesian …
The people of Sierra Leone are resisting a new biodiesel project. SOCFIN, a Luxembourg-based company, is planning a palmoil plantation of around 12,000 hectares (around 30,000 acres). The land is bein…
At an altitude of 4,000 meters in the Peruvian Andes, more than 8,000 farmers have been guarding dozens of mountain lakes for nearly the past two weeks. The natural water reservoirs are acutely threat…
More than 100 endangered Asian elephants -- the largest population in Cambodia -- depend on the elephant corridor in the Cardamom Mountain rainforest. But the elephants could lose this critical habita…
On the Philippine island of Palawan, a tragedy is looming: The Government is handing out new concessions to mining corporations. The highly destructive mining of nickel and chrome would destroy the…
Mining companies are cashing in on a bonanza thanks to record high silver prices. The economic benefits to a Canadian mining company, however, do not justify the destruction of Sierra de Catorce in…
HECO (Hawaiian Electric Company), the largest electricity company in Hawaii, could soon become one of the largest US importers of palm oil. They have been given permission to burn 2.56 million gallon…
New terrifying footage reveals the cruel methods for producing leather in Indonesia. For days, lizards and snakes are kept tied up in plastic bags, until the animals are finally skinned – often while…
In accordance with the Senate of Berlin, Germany, power company Vattenfall has announced plans to increase the production of energy from biomass – by employing tropical rubber wood as source material.…
Monsanto is trying to offer the Haitian Ministry of Agriculture a fatal gift. The Haitian peasants will receive 475 tons of its seeds. This worsen the farmers’ situation. The organisations of La Via C…
A planned andalusite opencast mine would occupy 277,016 square metres on the boundaries of the Fragas do Eume, a National Park which is a prime example of Atlantic forest and is one of the forest jewe…
In order to increase their ‘energy security’, Lufthansa wants to burn kerosene with agrofuels. At the end of two years of tests, up to 10% agrofuels are to be added to jet fuel. Lufthansa likes to spe…
Organisations and groups are invited to sign this important Manifesto for the Yasuni National Park in Ecuador. Manifesto: Moving towards a low carbon, energy supply solution HOW CAN EUROPE SUPPORT T…