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Sarawak‘s only UNESCO World Heritage Site is in danger! Oil palm plantations are closing in on the ancient rainforests of Mulu National Park.
The sale of timber from plantation concessions is illegal in Liberia. Loosening the ban would put the country on a slippery slope to wholesale deforestation.
Bonobos, orangutans, chimpanzees and gorillas are facing extinction. Please call on UNESCO to recognize our closest relatives as a Living World Heritage.
Do not grant carte blanche to corporations! Environmental protection and human rights in Brazil must not be left in the hands of industry.
Prey Lang, Cambodia’s largest lowland rainforest, is protected; however, the government continues to grant concessions for agriculture and industry.
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A green sea of ferns, mosses, vines and ancient trees. Iridescent butterflies and colorful birds. Flowers in every hue of the rainbow. The “green lung” is a natural wonder of the world. Find out more…
Timber from domestic forests is a natural and renewable resource which is both modern and environmentally friendly. But is that also true of tropical timber from rainforests?
Our African partners fight the good fight in often dangerous environments. They need your support to continue their vital work.
Guadalupe Rodríguez, Felipe Duran and Klaus Schenck are in Brazil on behalf of Rainforest Rescue to touch base with our partner organizations. Here is their report on the visits in the state of Maranh…
One year ago, we launched the petition “DRC: People and nature in eastern Congo need peace.” Since then, conditions in the DRC have worsened sharply. This is a catastrophe for hundreds of thousands of…
Rainforests are being cleared, farmland destroyed, and the livelihoods of entire villages devastated – nickel mining is leaving a trail of immense damage. Yet the people of Sulawesi are fighting back,…
They denounce the destruction of nature and take to the streets to advocate for human rights and the environment: Five members of Mother Nature Cambodia (MNC) have been imprisoned since July 2024, eac…
Is Germany putting a stop to strategic lawsuits against public participation (SLAPPs) targeting environmental activists and journalists? The German government has introduced a bill intended to make SL…
Is the threat to the forest on the Mentawai island of Sipora intensifying? Two years after the permit for 20,000 hectares, the logging company Sumber Permata Sipora has now submitted the environmental…
The massive agricultural project for the production of sugar, bioethanol and rice, PSN Merauke, is in violation of human rights and destroying the environment in South Papua, as determined in a report…
Five young members of Mother Nature Cambodia (MNC) have been imprisoned for 300 days. These activists are dedicated to protecting the environment and defending human rights in Cambodia – and they have…
In the film Indigenous People Protect Their Mangrove Village, our partner Aceh Wetland Forum (AWF) shows how Simpang Lhee is becoming a “mangrove village”. Nature is protected using traditional Indige…
For the past year, Rainforest Rescue and partner organizations have worked hard to make Deutsche Bahn (DB) aware of the potentially disastrous consequences of a planned rail-and-port project in Brazil…
Our partner Odey Oyama has been arrested in Nigeria. For years, he has faced threats for his efforts to combat illegal logging and expose the powerful individuals behind it. In the most recent inciden…
Together with our partner organizations from Brazil, we were in Brussels at the end of November to stop EU funding for a planned rail and port project in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil – with success…
A success after ten years of struggle for their rights: The Indigenous Dayak Tomun of Kubung village have formally applied for recognition as a community under Indigenous law. Securing the Dayak's for…
In the 16th century, the Portuguese Pero Vaz de Caminha took possession of what is now Brazil – including the Indigenous peoples who lived there – for the Portuguese crown. Since then, the people have…
On March 10, more than 1,000 people protested against the planned expansion of the Tesla Gigafactory near Berlin. 100 hectares of forest in a water protection area are due to be destroyed for the fact…
Tren Maya – a high-speed tourist train through the Yucatán rainforest and vanity project of the Mexican president – is causing serious environmental destruction and massive problems for local Indigeno…
Violence against Indigenous people in Brazil continues to escalate. On January 21, 200 large landowners and members of a police militia used WhatsApp to coordinate an armed attack on the Pataxó people…
The Brumadinho dam failure still haunts Brazil five years on as legal battles continue. The disaster reverberated across the world in January 2019 when 272 lives were lost at the Córrego do Feijão min…
Bonobos live deep in the rainforests of the Congo Basin. They are less well known than other great apes, but just as threatened. Scientists founded Bonobo Alive to protect them: The organization fight…
In Tanzania’s vast savannas, a bold experiment is underway. A radio station is creating something rare: a space where pastoralists and conservationists, government officials and Indigenous leaders, ca…
In the lush rainforests of Papua, the sago palms still feed families as they did for generations. But the advance of palm oil and mining threatens to erase this living heritage. Pusaka works with Indi…
In the misty heart of Kahuzi-Biega, silverback Bonané savors bamboo while his twins play nearby – a scene of wild grace. But the Batwa people, once forest guardians, were expelled when this gorilla ha…
Hamburg-based NGO Rettet den Regenwald (Rainforest Rescue) and the Center for International Policy (CIP) from the United States are defending themselves against a defamation lawsuit before the Hamburg…
Rainforest Rescue calls on Cameroon to take responsibility for the conservation of Ebo Forest, a unique and irreplaceable natural treasure.
Indigenous Palawan leaders soon to confront the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) in Manila. The struggle of the indigenous peoples of Palawan against mining corporations is now being i…