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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 ...
Rebecca Tarbotton (30 July 1973 – 26 December 2012) was a Canadian environmental, human rights, and food activist, and the Executive Director of Rainforest Action Network. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Career and activism
Located in the Riau province of Indonesia, APRIL operates one of the world’s largest pulp and paper mills. [8] With an annual pulp production capacity of 2.8 million tons and an annual fine paper production capacity of 820,000 tons, [9] it generates employment opportunities for 90,000 local people and represents 6.9% of Riau Province’s economic output (2009).
In a jungled corner of Indonesia's Papua, the Awyu tribe await a Supreme Court verdict that will determine whether thousands of hectares of rainforest will be cleared for a vast palm oil ...
The fact that RSPO members are allowed to clear cut pristine forest areas, when there are large areas of grasslands available in Indonesia, [8] raises doubts about commitment to sustainability. [9] In 2013, the 11th annual RSPO meeting was crashed by palm oil workers and others, [ 10 ] and Indonesian and international labour-rights groups have ...
In May 2011, Indonesia declared a moratorium on new logging contracts to help combat this. [14] This appeared to be ineffective in the short-term, as the rate of deforestation continued to increase. By 2012 Indonesia had surpassed the rate of deforestation in Brazil, [15] and become the fastest forest clearing nation in the world. [16]
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 ...
To finance the nature reserve, BOS created a system of "land-purchasing", a "Create Rainforest" initiative where people symbolically adopt square metres of rainforest. [11] Donors are able to view and follow the progress of the purchase with their donation in the project area with Google Earth satellite images from 2002 and 2007 with additional ...