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Rainforests that are home to endangered orangutans are being cut down to plant palm oil.

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Forests

Rainforests are treasure troves of life, home to some of the most biologically and culturally diverse landscapes on earth. Since 1985, Rainforest Action Network has designed strategic campaigns utilizing bold tactics to defend the world’s most important and endangered forests.

The Problem With Cargill

Cargill is the largest importer of palm oil into the U.S. and one of the largest traders of controversial palm oil in the world.

Girl Scouts and Palm Oil

When they were just eleven years old, Michigan Girl Scouts Madison Vorva and Rhiannon Tomtishen discovered an alarming fact while completing research for their Girl Scout Bronze Awards: most Girl Scout cookies are packed with palm oil, an ingredient that causes the destruction of irreplaceable rainforests and threatens the survival of humankind’s closest relative, orangutans.

Disney and RAN agree to historic commitment for Indonesia’s forests

October 11, 2012 marks a victory for Indonesia’s rainforests and endangered forests around the globe. Disney and RAN agree to a comprehensive paper policy.
Truth and Consequences: Palm Oil Plantations Push Unique Orangutan Population to Brink of Extinction
A manmade inferno inside the globally renowned Tripa rainforest in Aceh, Indonesia is pushing this forest’s unique population of Sumatran orangutans to the brink of extinction. Destruction inside palm oil plantation leases is driving the end of this great lowland forest, despite years of efforts by local communities to defend their forests and livelihood.
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Recent Blog Posts

Why ‘RSPO Sustainable Palm Oil’ is not responsible

When you go to the grocery store and you buy a bag of chips, a chocolate bar, crackers, ice-cream, doughnuts, frozen snacks or other candy, you may see a label on the products saying ‘RSPO Certified Sustainable Palm Oil’ or ‘Green Palm Sustainability.’ Such labeling makes it is easy to think that the product you are holding contains palm oil that has been produced responsibly.

Indonesian Forest Protections Under Attack

An orangutan looks out from a cage in Aceh, Indonesia. The region’s Sumatran orangutans face extinction due to palm oil development. Photo: David Gilbert

The Last Stand of the Sumatran Orangutan

A stranded orangutan watches as her home is bulldozed.

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Stand With RAN!
I stand with RAN in calling on the US snack food industry to help stop the destruction of Indonesia's rainforests for palm oil.

Publications

Truth and Consequences: Palm Oil Plantations Push Unique Orangutan Population to Brink of Extinction
A manmade inferno inside the globally renowned Tripa rainforest in Aceh, Indonesia is pushing this forest’s unique population of Sumatran orangutans to the brink of extinction. Destruction inside palm oil plantation leases is driving the end of this great lowland forest, despite years of efforts by local communities to defend their forests and livelihood.
Cargill's Problems With Palm Oil
This report documents systemic failures in agribusiness giant Cargill's supply chain.
Cargill’s Legacy of Destruction: Case Study of a Cargill Owned Plantation in Indonesia
A case study on PT Harapan Sawit Lestari, an oil palm plantation owned and operated by the U.S. multinational corporation, Cargill.
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