Rainforest
Action Network

Fighting for People and Planet

We use people power to challenge business as usual. And we win.

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Our strategy works.
Here's how.

1

Identify Targets & Build Strategic Campaigns

By assessing urgent social and environmental threats, RAN effectively targets the corporate and financial culprits driving the worst impacts.
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Build Honest, Authentic Partnerships

RAN partners with, amplifies and supports Indigenous and frontline communities for local led solutions with a global lens.
3

Center Racial Justice & Human Rights

We remain value-focused, knowing that environmental justice is inextricably linked to racial justice and human rights.
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Bring the Facts and the Pressure to Win Systemic Change

We leverage our globally-recognized research and reports, peaceful direct actions, narrative savvy, and high-level corporate negotiations to force policy and practice solutions for real change on the ground. Change that happens by shifting not just companies, but entire industrial sectors to transform the global marketplace.

Expose the devastation of corporate profiteering with RAN's cutting edge research & analysis.

Aug 07, 2023

Banks must respect Indigenous Peoples’ land rights to Keep Forests Standing
Jul 31, 2023

Methane Gas from LNG Production is a Climate Emergency

This is an opinion piece by RAN’s Climate & Energy Program Director, Aditi Sen, originally published in Newsweek. Due to climate change parts of India, where I’m from, are questioning…

May 22, 2023

The Players Behind a New Wave of Deforestation in Borneo and Papua

A RAN and partner report exposing the shadowy connections between major Western brands and a new mill in Borneo that threatens 600,000 hectares of standing rainforest.

June 27, 2023

Panther, Summer 2023

April 12, 2023

Banking on Climate Chaos: Fossil Fuel Finance Report 2023

February 13, 2023

Keep Forests Standing: How Local Community Resistance is Saving the Last Rainforests of Borneo

Join a global network that supports and works closely with frontline communities.

"We won’t give our land to anyone else, be it other villagers or any company. We won’t let it go until the last drop of our blood."

- Tigang Jalung
Farmer and forest defender from Long Isun, Indonesia

"Our fight is not just a fight about oil. This is a fight about different ways of living. One that protects life and one that destroys life."

- Nemonte Nenquimo
Waorani Indigenous leader from the Ecuadorian Amazon

"Rio Grande LNG and Texas LNG are invading the community, would desecrate our lands, bulldoze sacred sites, and harm our tribal members’ health and safety."

- Juan Mancias
Tribal Chairman of the Carrizo Comecrudo Tribe of Texas

"Forests that are well-protected are the ones that have Indigenous communities protecting them; not the ones given to companies for concessions."

- Delima Silalahi
Indigenous leader from the Pargamanan-Bitang Maria Community, Indonesia

"The mine will tear the heart out of our country, permanently destroying our ancestral homelands, as well as sites and species we have held sacred for generations."

- Adrian Burragubba
Wangan and Jagalingou Tribal elder, Australia

"Our ancestors left the land for us. It’s our children and grandchildren’s place to get food in the future. That’s why we hold on."

- Kristina Yeq
Indigenous leader and forest defender from Long Isun, Indonesia

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We use people power to challenge business as usual. And we win.