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Stay in the loop with news of ongoing campaigns and successes in the fight against rainforest destruction.


Protest against HeidelbergCement on December 8, 2017

Human rights award for anti-cement activists

Dec 20, 2018 The 2018 Yap Thiam Hien Human Rights Award honors Indonesian activists who are fighting to save their homeland from the cement, sand and palm oil industries.

Sumatran forest elephant

Sumatra’s elephant forest is safe!

Nov 29, 2018 Our partners on Sumatra scored a resounding success: 2,000 acres of forest in Sepintun now officially belong to the local indigenous people – and the elephants.

Aerial photo of a village in Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone rejects Chinese-funded “One Belt, One Road” airport

Nov 16, 2018 Sierra Leone, a tiny country in West Africa, is standing up to pressure from China to build a new international airport that it doesn’t need.

Two women with their children in front of thatched houses

We beat the plantation companies!

Nov 15, 2018 Our partners in the Philippines scored two successes: the government put a moratorium on the spread of oil palm plantations and shut down two coconut palm companies.

Activists hand over 180,000 signatures protesting logging on Vancouver Island

Vancouver Island: speaking out for “ancient trees, not big stumps”

Nov 9, 2018 Rainforest Rescue and Sierra Club BC delivered a petition to protect the ancient rainforests of British Columbia, Canada, to the province’s premier, John Horgan.

Uniper biomass power plant

120 environmental NGOs call for an end to biomass

Oct 25, 2018 120 environmental NGOs from all over the world are calling for forests to be protected, not burned. Logging for energy generation is the opposite of climate protection.

Giraffes in South Africa

Trophy hunters push giraffes toward extinction

Sep 30, 2018 A flourishing, unregulated market for giraffe skins and bones in the United States is decimating this iconic species of the African savanna.

Dead sharks in a fish auction hall

“Sustainable” fishing? The dark side of the MSC label

Sep 29, 2018 As an ethical consumer, how do you choose seafood that was sustainably produced? Who is behind the MSC label, and is it truly independent?

Protest against biomass power station

Environmentalists applaud progress against biomass

Sep 6, 2018 Environmentalists are applauding a government decision ruling out subsidies for new UK biomass power stations fueled by imported wood pellets.

Indigenous Mundurukú people protesting the planned construction of a dam on the Tapajos river in Brazil

Fighting the good fight – with your support

Sep 5, 2018 Does our work make a difference? Yes, together with our hard-working partners and the international pressure generated by your signatures, we’re scoring real successes.

Two orcas

Orcas can breathe easier: court stops tar sand oil pipeline

Sep 3, 2018 A Canadian court has stopped the expansion of an oil pipeline because the impact of the project on whales was neglected – a great success for Canada’s First Nations.

Montage: Airbus A380 over an oil palm plantation

Indonesia pressures the EU: Airbus must use palm oil jet fuel

Aug 22, 2018 Indonesia is pushing for its companies to be allowed to build palm oil jet fuel plants in the United States and France as a condition for buying Boeing and Airbus airliners.

Tapanuli orangutan

China's “Belt & Road Initiative” – and what it means for the planet

Jul 30, 2018 The "Belt & Road Initiative" infrastructure mega-project: what China's geopolitical and business ambitions mean for biodiversity and the climate.

Tapanuli orangutan

ALERT urges Indonesian president: save the world's rarest ape

Jul 11, 2018 25 world-leading scientists from ALERT urged Indonesian President Joko Widodo to halt a hydropower project that would imperil the rarest great ape in the world.

Seized ivory

Wildlife crime: global seizures and arrests in transcontinental operation

Jun 30, 2018 An operation coordinated by INTERPOL against the illegal trade in wildlife has seen hundreds of seizures worldwide as well as suspects arrested.

Trucks delivering timber to a pellet factory

Study on EU biofuel use: burning wood harms the climate

Jun 2, 2018 The EU wants to boost the use of biomass energy. However, a new study warns that instead of protecting the climate, it will result in even more greenhouse gas emissions.

Biofuelwatch #Time to Twig

Join protests against forest destruction for bioenergy in London and York

Apr 14, 2018 Please help to protect forests, biodiversity and the climate, and join our protests against the biomass industry in London,18th April, 5pm ..

Black howler monkey (Alouatta carayá)  with text "Success!"

Brazil: monkeys can breathe easier

Feb 20, 2018 Thanks to an international outcry, Netflix is no longer spreading false information about yellow fever and howler monkeys that prompted the wholesale killing of monkeys.

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