At 66 million tons annually, palm oil is the most commonly produced vegetable oil. Its low world market price and properties that lend themselves to processed foods have led the food industry to use ...

For years, Panama’s indigenous Ngäbe Buglé community has been locked in a struggle to keep its ancestral land: the Barro Blanco dam is a hydropower project that threatens to flood their homes and ...

14 Borneo pygmy elephants have been poisoned in the Malaysian state of Sabah. The rare animals are considered pests on the oil palm plantations that are rapidly eating into the rainforests. Please ...

The EU wants to save our climate with supposedly green biofuels and has deemed palm oil "sustainable". Yet on the other side of the globe, rainforests are being clear-cut to produce the 1.9 million ...

A green sea of ferns, mosses, vines and ancient trees. Iridescent butterflies and colorful birds. Flowers in every hue of the rainbow. The “green lung” is a natural wonder of the world. Find out more ...

We delivered the petition and signatures to the UN at its World Forestry Congress in Durban in 2015. We are working on our next campaign together with our partners – we will not let up until the UN ...

Find out more about our campaigns and the issues we address – and what you can do to protect the rainforests. A green sea of ferns, mosses, vines and ancient trees. Iridescent butterflies and colorful ...

In the Malaysian state of Sabah, the Chief Minister and his ruling family are systematically lining their pockets with the spoils of tropical deforestation. The money from the illegal trade was ...

We partner with courageous forest defenders around the world to preserve rainforests and their biodiversity, address the climate crisis and strengthen human rights. Your donation is vital to our fight ...

Illegal cocoa farms are eating away at protected forests in Côte d’Ivoire and destroying the habitat of primates. Chimpanzees and several monkey species have all but disappeared from the Dassioko Sud ...

After years of boycotts and awareness campaigns by environmentalists, tropical timber products had for a long time become synonymous with exploitation and plunder. As a result, their sales figures ...

Nature, wildlife and scarce water supplies in a unique corner of southern Africa are being endangered by a rush to drill for oil. A Canadian company is pushing to explore for oil in the Kavango Basin, ...