New Alliance Forms to Defend Traditional Territories in the Amazon
One of the biggest challenges facing Indigenous and traditional communities fighting to defend their territories around the world is a lack of universally recognized maps and physical markers demarcating the…
Asia Wild Fire Panel at COP21 Highlights Worst Climate Crisis in 21st Century Being Ignored
Racing Extinction, Rainforest Action Network, United Nations GRASP, Kids Cut Palm Oil Leaders and Students Demand Corporations & Governments Find Solutions Event as Part of ‘Kids Cut Palm Oil’ Day…
Demonstrators Block BLM Office Entrance To Protest Mineral Rights Auction
Video of CO KING protest “This is not okay,” said Ruth Breech, Senior Campaigner for Climate and Energy at Rainforest Action Network. “Our public lands are not for sale. Our…
Alarming Developments in Latin American Palm Oil Industry Spur Global Call To Action For Palm Oil Traders
International coalition of NGOs says murder, intimidation and the devastation of community livelihoods tied to rampant palm oil plantation expansion must be stopped FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Friends of the…
A Gap the Size of Indonesia in Latest Palm Oil Commitment from PepsiCo
Rainforest Action Network calls on snack food giant to close loopholes driving forest destruction, climate pollution and human rights violations In Indonesia FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Emma Rae Lierley, 425.281.1989,…
Direct Action: RAN Supported Protest at BP’s Houston Headquarters
“Environmental activists protested inside the lobby of BP’s Houston headquarters Wednesday morning (April 15) to mark the fifth anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion and the months-long Gulf of…
Challenging Corporate Power at the Biggest Climate March in History
This post is by the RAN staff who were in New York as part of the People’s Climate March: Lindsey Allen, Ginger Cassady, Susana Cervantes, Adrienne Fitch-Frankel, Chelsea Matthews, Scott Parkin, Claire…
RAN Supports Indigenous Youth In Fight Against Invasive Logging
On the night of December 2, 2002, with temperatures below zero, two sisters and young Indigenous mothers from the Grassy Narrows First Nation drove from their reserve, located in the…
Grassy Narrows Celebrates 10 Years of Historic Blockade
On December 2, 2002 the Indigenous youth of the Grassy Narrows First Nation lay down in the path of industrial logging machines—blocking access to their tribal homeland in Northern Ontario,…
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,…