As Rainforest Action Network Prepares to "Revel", What Has Become of Their Old Growth Forest Campaign?There is no chance of achieving global ancient forest protection, climate stabilization and ecological sustainability until RAN and other ancient forest logging apologists follow Friends of the Earth in withdrawing from the Forest Stewardship Council and uniting to work to end ancient forest loggingCampaign News Updates:· Forest certification system needs reform to ensure sustainability - report [search]· Rainforest Action Network to review support for FSC certification [search]· Show MoreFund Ecuador to Keep Oil Underground and Rainforests Standing for Our Shared ClimateIt is time for the international community led by Europe to step up and finance large-scale Amazon rainforest preservation to protect the Earth's atmosphere, biodiversity, and life-giving ecosystems; while helping meet needs for national advancementCampaign News Updates:· Pay-to-protect plan for Ecuadorian rainforest on the brink [search]· Ecuador: Gordon Brown urged to pay millions to stop oil firms destroying Amazon rainforest [search]· Show MoreBiofuels to Turn Kenya's Rich Tana Delta Wetlands into Ecological WastelandLet the Kenyan government know destroying ecosystems for toxic sugar monocultures is unethical, and ask them to please follow their own environmental laws, and permanently cancel the projectCampaign News Updates:· Destruction of Kenya forest is national emergency [search]· Kenya: Hue And Cry Over Tana Sugar Project [search]· Show MoreBrazil's Xingu River Dam to Damn Amazonian Rainforests and PeoplesThe wild and free Xingu River is critical to maintaining intact the Amazon, its peoples and the Earth we shareCampaign News Updates:· Brazil: Marina Silva: We must slash emissions to prevent destruction of the rainforest [search]· Dispute raises doubts over Brazil's Amazon dams [search]· Show MoreUnilever Threatens Côte d'Ivoire's Primary Rainforests, Showing Promises of "Sustainable" Palm Oil MeaninglessLeading global consumer products company poised to destroy Ivory Coast's rainforests as both investor and customer, pushing three primates to extinction, just after its future commitment to rainforest protection and certified oil palm in 2015 was much heralded by someCampaign News Updates:· The slippery business of palm oil [search]· Côte d'Ivoire's endangered chimp population falls 99% since 1960 [search]· Show MoreCambodian Cardamom Mountain Wilderness to Be DammedDam construction must not damn opportunity for protection of one of Asia's last intact, fully functional natural ecosystemsCampaign News Updates:· Cambodia: 'Unnecessary' dam project threatens rarest wildlife [search]Agrofuels on Stolen Lands Continue to Threaten Colombian Rainforests and CommunitiesIt is gravely unethical and ecologically devastating to expand production of biofuels by allowing land to be stolen from local Afro-Colombian communities; and at the expense of Colombia's ancient primary rainforests, food security, water resources and regional climateCampaign News Updates:· Colombia: Afro-Colombians fight biodiesel producers [search]· Colombian community leader assassinated by agroindustry-backed vigilantes [search]· Show MoreStop the Forest Liars: "Certified" Old-Growth Rainforest Logging Does NOT Protect Biodiversity, Ecosystems or ClimateOutrageous support by big environmental groups for first-time industrial logging of primary and old-growth rainforest wildernesses based upon vague claims that FSC certification makes it sustainable, well-managed and now even "carbon positive" is a big lie and must endCampaign News Updates:· Scientists warn forest clearing more harmful than thought [search]· The FSC is the 'Enron of forestry' says rainforest activist [search]· Show MoreGlobal Ecological Emergency: Brazil Must Succeed in Keeping Soybeans Out of AmazonOnly soy products that do not directly or indirectly destroy ancient rainforests, or intensify climate change and other problems inherent with large-scale industrial monocultures, will be tolerated in international marketsCampaign News Updates:· EU Biofuel Panic Threatens Planet - Brazil Envoy [search]· Brazil mulls sugar cane limit to protect wetland [search]· Show MorePapua New Guinea's Woodlark Island Rainforests to Be Cleared for Oil Palm AgrofuelsThe PNG government continues to approve rainforest destruction and diminishment even as they vocally seek to be paid with carbon market funds for their "protection"Campaign News Updates:· Malaysia Concerned About Negative Campaigns On Palm Oil Industry [search]· Biofuels are worsening global warming [search]· Show MoreMayor Bloomberg: We Love New York, But Hate Your Government's Rainforest Destruction!New York City is one of the biggest consumers of ancient rainforest timbers; and their use of tropical hardwoods must end to protect global climate, ecosystems and biodiversityCampaign News Updates:· New York mayor supports carbon emissions tax, reduces hardwood use [search]· To save a forest: World eyes grand plan of payoffs to preserve trees, protect climate [search]· Show MoreProtest Failed World Bank Congo Rainforest Policy and Proposed Ill-Conceived Forest Carbon PaymentsGiven revelations of misconduct in Democratic Republic of Congo's rainforests by the World Bank, their desire to administer global carbon payments for rainforest protection as a means to address climate change is suspectCampaign News Updates:· All About: Forests and carbon trading [search]· Indonesia Seeks Allies for Pay-for-Forests Plan [search]· Show MoreClimate Protection Payments Must Avoid Deforestation of Ancient Rainforests AND Their Industrial DiminishmentSelective logging diminishes primary and old-growth forests' carbon stores, ecosystems, and biodiversity; and has no place in proposed carbon market payments for rainforest and climate protectionCampaign News Updates:· Pay-to-protect forest plan gets cautious welcome [search]· Old growth forest must no longer be ignored in carbon balances [search]· Show MoreStop Ocean City, New Jersey from Using Ancient Rainforest Timbers for Boardwalk DeckingAn important precedent must be set that industrial logging of ancient forests, even if FSC "certified", must endCampaign News Updates:· New Jersey: Ocean City countersues Baltimore company over rainforest boardwalk wood [search]· Lumber Firm Sues NJ City Over Lost Deal [search]· Show MoreFSC and Big Green "Certified" Ancient Forest Logging Tragedy WorsensSupport for "certified" ancient rainforest logging crumbles further due to string of inappropriate and illegal certifications, most recently in Peru; and as Norway rejects FSC and all primary rainforest logging certification schemesCampaign News Updates:· Forest Disappearing in Papua New Guinea [search]Protect Uganda's Mabira Rainforest Preserve from Sugar Production for BiofuelLet the Ugandan government know rainforests and their ecological services including water, climate and biodiversity are more important than sugar which can be grown elsewhereCampaign News Updates:· Ugandan president continues to undermine national forest reserves [search]· Uganda: Path to progress; why cutting down Mabira is not an option [search]· Show MoreGreenpeace, Come Clean and Stop Supporting Ancient Rainforest LoggingThere is no such thing as certified, sustainable logging of primary forests. Tell Greenpeace to release their suppressed report on industrial certified forestry, and to resign the chair and withdraw from the Forest Stewardship CouncilCampaign News Updates:· Untouched forests store 3 times more carbon- study [search]Myth of "Certified, Sustainable Ancient Forest Logging" Threatens the World's Rainforests and ClimateTell the World Bank, WWF and Greenpeace to stop aiding and abetting failed "sustainable" and "certified" forest management for the Congo Basin and elsewhere, and instead commit to End Ancient Rainforest LoggingStop Malaysian Samling Group - Global Leaders in Rainforest DestructionDestroyer of ancient rainforests and indigenous livelihoods from Malaysia to Guyana now a publicly listed company that along with its financiers is facing renewed international protestIndonesia's Biofuel Expansion on Rainforest Peatlands to Accelerate Climate ChangeLet the President know the world expects Indonesia to keep the Environment Minister's promise to tackle the root causes of rainforest fires and peatland drainageCampaign News Updates:· Greenpeace says blocks palm oil ships in Indonesia [search]· Indonesia: Biofuel boom endangers orangutan habitat [search]· Show MoreBrazil Approves Deforestation of Important Amazon ReserveThe strength and permanence of protected status for ancient rainforests under Brazilian law is at stakeEurope Must End Their "Deforestation Biofuel" Energy PolicyIndustrial biofuels threaten Rainforests and European land sustainabilityCampaign News Updates:· EU plans to limit biofuel impact on forests [search]· Adonis hints UK is wavering on biofuel targets [search]· Show MoreContinue to Oppose Oil Production in Ecuador's Yasuni and Other National ParksAll of Ecuador's protected areas including all of Yasua must be strictly protected from oil and loggingCampaign News Updates:· Ecuador's plan to protect rainforest from oil drilling looks doomed [search]· Ecuador Says Could Help Settle Chevron Suit [search]· Show MoreSay No to Industrial Mining in French Guiana's Ancient RainforestsProtected areas, water resources and indigenous peoples will all be devastated if French Government grants environmental approvals - decision on environmental license for industrial open-air gold mining in the primary rainforests of French Guiana expected soon!Stop ANZ Bank Funding of Illegal Logging in Papua New GuineaInsist leading Australian/New Zealand bank stop financing destruction of PNG's ancient rainforests by Malaysian loggersCampaign News Updates:· Supreme Court Rules Logging Rights In PNG Illegal [search]· Forestry officials ignoring PNG law [search]· Show MorePenan Logging Blockade Maintained, Malaysia Must Implement Permanent ProtectionsInsist Malaysian authorities respect native customary land rights and boundaries of Penan's last remaining ancestral rainforest reservesCampaign News Updates:· Malaysia: Set up forest reserves for Penans, Government urged [search]· Malaysian human rights commission rejects probe into death of anti-logging tribesman [search]· Show MoreSupport Petition to Save Malaysia's Belum-Temengor RainforestsProposed National Park "Richest of the Rich" in Terms of Biodiversity and Ecosystems, Threatened by LoggingChinese Olympic Committee Must Independently Prove Olympic Torch Not Burning World's RainforestsBeijing Olympics 2008: Destroying Papua's Ancient Rainforests to Raise the Olympic TorchCampaign News Updates:· Tough Times For US Ethanol To Force Shake-Out [search]Massive Gas Pipeline to Pierce the AmazonProject will devastate South America's rainforests, water and climateCampaign News Updates:· Brazil, Venezuela Pledge Deeper Energy Integration [search]Panama Power Line Plan to Destroy Darien Gap RainforestShort sighted energy policy threatens regional ecosystem, security and indigenous rightsWorld Bank Must Not Fund Rainforest Destruction in the CongoIndustrial logging of ancient primary forests is ecologically and socially indefensibleCampaign News Updates:· Congo logging review could lead to more forest destruction, warns Greenpeace [search]· DR Congo to cancel two-thirds of logging contracts due to corruption [search]· Show More
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