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Rainforest Action Network (RAN) is an environmental organization based in San Francisco, California, United States. The organization was founded by Randy "Hurricane" Hayes and Mike Roselle in 1985, and first gained national prominence with a grassroots organizing campaign that in 1987 succeeded in convincing Burger King to cancel $31 million ...
But two recent reports by the environmental group Rainforest Action Network have raised questions about how dedicated the companies are to the goal. ... saying it would violate Indonesian law to ...
In 2011 the Rainforest Action Network named APRIL as one of Indonesia’s most destructive corporations cutting rainforests and replacing them with monoculture acacia pulp wood plantations grown on these cleared rainforests and peatlands.
On August 8, 2013, Germany-based non-profit certification organisation Forest Stewardship Council announced that it has ended all association with APRIL after a complaint filed in May of that year by non-governmental organizations Greenpeace International, Rainforest Action Network and WWF Indonesia alleging violation of the council's policy of ...
Home to a third of the world's rainforest, Indonesia introduced a moratorium on forest clearance for activities such as palm oil and logging in 2011. The policy has been extended, but some forests ...
The remains of a peat forest in Indragiri Hulu, Riau Province, Indonesia to make way for oil palm plantation.. Production of palm oil in Indonesia has, since 1964, recorded a phenomenal increase from 157,000 metric tons (155,000 long tons; 173,000 short tons) to 41.5 million metric tons (40,800,000 long tons; 45,700,000 short tons) in 2018 [7] and a total of 51 million metric tons (50,000,000 ...
The Singkil Barat Nature Reserve [1] is a 650-square-kilometre (250 sq mi) [2] nature reserve found on the island of Sumatra, Indonesia.Located in the province of Aceh, the preserve contains the largest peat swamp within the leuser ecosystem and is hailed as the orangutan capital of the world. [3]
Asia Pulp & Paper has been the focus of campaigns by groups like Greenpeace and Rainforest Action Network, including a 2012 exposé by Greenpeace accusing APP of illegal logging practices. [12] [13] It has been at the center of environmental controversies and has been accused of being involved in illegal logging in Indonesia. [14]