We need to act as if our forests were on fire, because they are
It’s not an exaggeration to say that the world is on fire right now. We’re experiencing the hottest June on record in North America and in Africa, and massive fires…
Fire Season: An Annual Emergency
Fire season grows longer and deadlier every year, and it’s proving to be an annual emergency. The climate crisis is here. So why are corporations intentionally burning tropical rainforests? We’re calling out the banks, brands and businesses driving this destruction.
The Money Behind the Big Business of Burning
Tropical forests do not burn by themselves — Big Agribusiness is setting the fires intentionally, as it’s the cheapest way to clear new land for palm oil, pulp and paper, soy, and beef. But they need the cash from the world’s mega banks and investors like fire needs oxygen — to defend our forests we need to defund the fires.
One Year Later: The Rainforests Are On Fire
Where there’s smoke, there’s fire; and where there’s fire, there’s greed. One year later & rainforest FIRES are back in the Amazon & Indonesia, driven by corporate greed, polluting our planet, & destroying lives and livelihoods. Last year was horrible but this year is on track to be WORSE.
Activists Organize to End Big Business of Burning as Arson in Brazil and Indonesia Destroy Rainforests
Environmental NGOs and climate activists host Fires Week of Action targeting major brands and financiers as the world’s most vital rainforests are intentionally burned for profit What: Week of direct…
Fresh Evidence: Major Global Brands Refuse to Stop Sourcing Fire-Fueled Conflict Palm Oil, Despite Promises
A palm oil producer, exposed for illegally slashing and burning forests, continues to sell its Conflict Palm Oil to suppliers for major brands like Nestlé, Colgate-Palmolive, PepsiCo, and Procter & Gamble despite their commitments to end deforestation for palm oil by 2020. Our latest investigations expose these brands’ failure to stop forest fires and deforestation in the Leuser Ecosystem.
