RSPO Failure Allows Deforestation-linked Fangiono Palm Oil Flowing into ‘Sustainable’ Global Supply Chains
New evidence prompts calls for buyers and investors to investigate independently of failed RSPO process The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) has allowed the Fangiono group to continue pumping…
New Global Analysis Finds Banks Pumped USD 595 Billion into High-Risk Agribusiness and Mining in Tropical Forest Regions Since 2020
First combined analysis of agribusiness and mineral mining financial flows exposes growing biodiversity impacts from banks and investors AMSTERDAM, October 14, 2026 — The world’s largest banks and investors continue…
RAN welcomes P&G’s Human Rights Defender disclosure, calls for transparency and action
Consultation with frontline Defenders sets an important precedent Rainforest Action Network (RAN) welcomes Procter & Gamble’s new disclosure of its approach to protecting Human Rights Defenders, developed through extensive consultation…
The Illustrated Field Guide to Biodiversity Finance Narratives
The global conversation about biodiversity finance is still too often framed around one question: how do we mobilize more money for nature? But that’s only part of the story. Equally…
How a Decade of Advocacy Became a Documentary
Picture a rhinoceros in a rainforest. Add in orangutans swinging above, and elephants and tigers prowling below. There is only one place on our planet you could be — the…
Rainforest Action Network (RAN) welcomes meaningful steps by Mondelēz International to strengthen protections for Human Rights Defenders.
Mondelēz International, maker of Oreos, Chips Ahoy, and Sour Patch Kids, has made significant improvements in its approach to protecting Human Rights Defenders, making these a contractual obligation to suppliers….
On Earth Day, Global Coalition Delivers Mass Petition to Wall Street Banks Demanding Action to Protect the Amazon
Petition delivery accompanied by dramatic, building-size projection action in Midtown Manhattan ***Photos available here New York, NY — On Earth Day, a coalition of international conservation and Indigenous rights organizations…
The Iran War is reaching the world’s rainforests
Everyone knows by now that the war in Iran — a devastating conflict already exacting a heavy human toll — is disrupting the flow of oil around the world. It’s…
The soy industry just gutted the Amazon’s best protection
The agreement that kept the Amazon rainforest from turning into a giant soybean field is falling apart after grain traders backed out of it.
Mondelēz CEO Faces Deforestation and Human Rights Protest at Wall Street Consumer Conference
Rainforest Action Network challenges Oreo maker during plenary address at CAGNY, calling for binding protections for forests and human rights defenders Orlando, FL / San Francisco, CA — Human rights…