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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.
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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.
![Rainforest Rescue activist Elisa Norio at the World Bank](/photos/article/wide/m/elisa-bei-weltbank5-17-4-2024.jpg)
World Bank suspends controversial financing in Tanzania
The World Bank is suspending funding for the controversial REGROW project in Tanzania. The Bank gave Rainforest Rescue its assurance during its Spring Meetings.
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Rescued: Proboscis monkeys, leopard cats and black-capped lories returned to the wild
Our Indonesian partner, Flight, rescues wildlife from smugglers, fights the trade in exotic birds, and releases songbirds back into the wild.
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EU puts a stop to abusive SLAPP lawsuits
The EU is finally getting a directive to combat abusive lawsuits, or SLAPPs, that will make it harder for corporations and powerful individuals to silence critics.
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Panama celebrates Supreme Court ruling against copper mine - protests continue
We celebrate the Supreme Court ruling declaring the copper mine unconstitutional, reports Radio Temblor – Colectivo Voces Ecólogicas
![Environmentalist Matek in Malaysia](/photos/article/wide/m/zyro-image-1.jpg)
Sarawak: Logging company backs down in face of local resistance
In Sarawak, a timber company had started clearing forest along the Ulu Lioh and Ulu Lijan rivers. Faced by the resistance of local communities, the company withdrew.
![Chimpanzees in Sapo National Park](/photos/article/wide/m/schimpanse-sonja-metzger-wcf.jpg)
Côte d’Ivoire: A safe forest corridor for chimpanzees
The Cavally Forest in Côte d'Ivoire has been declared a nature reserve. The link between the Taï and Sapo national parks is thus better protected.
![Students celebrate the dismissal of charges against them](/photos/article/wide/m/eacop-prozess-gewonnen.jpg)
Uganda: Charges dropped against anti-pipeline activists
A court in Kampala dismissed the case against nine young environmental activists who had peacefully protested the EACOP oil pipeline.
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Chile upgrades protection of the Humboldt Archipelago
Chile’s Humboldt Archipelago is now a marine protected area. This is a significant step forward for this biodiversity hotspot.
![A group of young people sitting and standing in front of a tree on the beach](/photos/article/wide/m/mnc-koh-kong-island-neu.jpg)
Alternative Nobel Prize for Rainforest Rescue partner Mother Nature Cambodia
The youth group Mother Nature Cambodia has been lauded for its commitment to conservation and human rights. Congratulations to our Cambodian partners!
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Ecuador: Referendum halts oil drilling in Yasuní National Park
A huge success: a majority of people in Ecuador voted to end oil production in Yasuní National Park in a binding referendum.
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Study finds Indigenous Ka’apor are Brazil’s best rainforest defenders
The Indigenous Ka’apor, partners of our organization, are resisting the trend of increasing deforestation in Brazil and are sucessfully defending their forest.
![A person among the trunks overgrown with mosses and epiphytes in a misty mountain rainforest](/photos/article/wide/m/bergregenwald-junin-2004-10.jpg)
Ecuador: Local people triumph over copper mine
A great victory for the life, nature and biodiversity of the Intag region in Ecuador: A court finally annulled the environmental permit for a copper mine project.
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French Guiana: EU rejects derogation for biomass power plants in the Amazon rainforest
Thanks to united protests, the EU has rejected a derogation for the construction of biomass power plants in the rainforest of French Guiana.
![Ten women who learned to read, write and do basic math in a WCF project present their certificates](/photos/article/wide/m/2022-wcf-liberia-woman-with-literacy-certificates.jpg)
Liberia: Teaching reading and numeracy – for conservation
In Liberia, Wild Chimpanzee Foundation conservationists provided literacy and numeracy training to ten women in the village of Jalay Town.
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DRC: Fostering community trust with schools
In the heart of the Congo Basin, Rainforest Rescue supports school projects that go hand in hand with bonobo conservation.
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Kinipan village chief acquitted
Indonesia’s Supreme Court has rejected the trumped-up charges against the village chief of Kinipan, Willem Hengki. This is a victory for all defenders of Borneo’s forests.
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Brazil: Rainforest Rescue petition leads to federal police investigation
Indigenous people in Brazil face harrassment, eviction and even death for defending their forests against loggers, cattle ranchers, agribusiness and mining companies.
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Stronger protections put in place for pangolins and elephants
Elephants and pangolins are now better protected than ever before. Hundreds of thousands signed our petitions calling for stronger conservation laws.
![Indigenous activists Hamrullah, Nimrod and Renaldi behind bars](/photos/article/wide/m/ulla-nimrod-dan-eka-big.jpg)
Indonesia: Indigenous rainforest guardians released from prison
Three wrongly convicted Indigenous rainforest guardians are free after months in prison. The men were able to rely on the solidarity of Rainforest Rescue.