RAN Channels Small Grants to Two Major Indigenous Mobilizations in South America
Indigenous communities are mobilizing in Brazil and Ecuador, challenging the respective national governments’ plans to push large-scale expansion of oil development in the rainforest (Ecuador) and clear the way for…
Free the Wayzata 3
In what has become quite a local buzz, RAN just released a shocking video of police arresting a mother orangutan and her baby from a public bench in downtown Wayzata,…
KI Nation Paddles 300 km to Protect their Wild Watershed
Canada’s Boreal forest is part of the world’s largest land-based carbon storehouse. It is also the world’s greatest reservoir of fresh water, and is among the largest unlogged forests left…
Cargill’s Not so Secret Expansion Plans in Indonesia
If Cargill’s PR stunt a few months ago left you feeling confused about the company’s role in driving deforestation and potential orangutan extinction in Indonesia, you might find it helpful…
Deep in the Amazon, A Story is Waiting to be Told
Media technologies and professional skills are valuable tools that enable Indigenous communities living in rainforests around the world to communicate about the crisis of deforestation through sharing their stories, language,…
International Day of Action to Save Tripa Rainforest
While many of us realize on some fleeting, uncomfortable level that our generation holds the future of countless species and ecosystems in our hands, rarely is the choice to allow…
The Future Of Endangered Orangutans Is In Your Hands
There has been an overwhelming amount of attention paid recently to the plight of Indonesia’s most iconic species due to habitat loss. Last month the International Union for Conservation of…
From The Field: Borneo’s Tanjung Puting National Park And The High Stakes Of The Palm Oil Crisis
Since joining RAN’s forest program over two years ago, I have read and written about the many dire consequences of industrial scale palm oil plantations in Indonesia: one of the…
Cargill’s Record Profits Come at the Expense of Record Deforestation
Cargill just reported record profits of $4.2 billion dollars for its 2010 fiscal year, a 63% increase over the previous year. As the world’s biggest agricultural trader — and the…
What is Sustainable Palm Oil? Part Three
This is the third and final installment in a series of posts that endeavors to answer a simple question: What is sustainable palm oil? The answer, of course, is anything…