Rainforest Action Network

Rainforest Action Network preserves forests, protects the climate and upholds human rights by challenging corporate power and systemic injustice through frontline partnerships and strategic campaigns.
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Procter & Gamble, Mondelēz and Nestlé Are Among 10 of the Leading Consumer Brands Driving Global Deforestation
Despite corporate commitments, deforestation rates remain high, and community land conflicts continue.
By Laurel Sutherlin in Environment | Earth Food Life Project
The Palm Oil Industry Is Pushing Critically Endangered Elephants to Extinction
Society’s addiction to palm oil—the world’s most widely consumed vegetable oil—is killing critically endangered Sumatran elephants.
By Laurel Sutherlin in Agriculture | Rainforest Action Network and Earth Food Life Project
These U.S. Banks Are Financing Climate Chaos Through Fossil Fuel Expansion
Wall Street’s dirtiest secret is how fossil fuel expansion depends on Big Bank finance.
In Environment | Rainforest Action Network
Palm Oil in Common Household Products Is Destroying the World’s ‘Orangutan Capital’
A nationally protected wildlife reserve in Indonesia is under attack by popular, big-name brands.
By Laurel Sutherlin in Environment | Rainforest Action Network and Earth Food Life Project
Is the Food Industry Concealing Possible Destruction of the Tropics From the Public?
Millions of tons of palm oil are ‘missing’ from Big Food’s deforestation-free claims.
By Emma Rae Lierley in Environment | Earth Food Life Project
How Banks and Investors Are Fueling a Global Biodiversity Crisis
Commercial financial flows to the forest-risk commodity sectors are driving the majority of tropical deforestation.
By Laurel Sutherlin in Environment | Rainforest Action Network and Earth Food Life Project
Forests Thrive When Indigenous People Have Legal Stewardship of Their Land
The fate of intact forests is closely linked to that of Indigenous peoples.
By Fitri Arianti in Environment | Earth Food Life Project and Rainforest Action Network
Conservation Innovations: How Sustained Resistance Is Saving One of the Earth’s Most Critical Rainforests From Corporate Greed
As profit-driven exploitation imperils Indonesia’s Leuser Ecosystem, some unique conservation strategies are working to save it.
By Laurel Sutherlin in Environment | Rainforest Action Network and Earth Food Life Project
Rainforest Action Network (RAN) believes that people power and direct action results in healthy forests, a stable climate and wild biodiversity that is protected and celebrated. To achieve its mission, RAN works with Indigenous and frontline communities to stop the money flow to fossil fuel projects, expose big bank funding of the climate chaos, and confront giant corporations that drive deforestation.
Associated Authors
Laurel Sutherlin
Laurel Sutherlin is the senior communications strategist for Rainforest Action Network. He is a lifelong environmental and human rights campaigner as well as a naturalist and outdoor educator with a passion for birds and wild places. Follow him on Twitter @laurelsutherlin.
Fitri Arianti
Fitri Arianti is a senior forest campaigner at Rainforest Action Network.
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