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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 ...
Earth First! was founded in 1980 by Mike Roselle, Dave Foreman, Howie Wolke, Bart Koehler, and Ron Kezar. [6] Rainforest Action Network was founded in San Francisco in 1985 by Roselle and Randy Hayes. [7]
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 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 ...
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
Depending on types of broadcast, free-to-air television networks and stations can be received by either using a UHF/VHF antenna or free-to-air satellite dish. Since the enactment of Act No. 32 of 2002 on Broadcasting ( Undang-Undang No. 32 Tahun 2002 tentang Penyiaran ), all private terrestrial television broadcasts licences are granted only to ...
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).
Indonesia's tropical forests and peatlands are of national and global ecological, climatic and socioeconomic importance. [7] Researchers have recognised the importance of Indonesian conservation in climate change mitigation , given it possesses the largest coverage of mangrove forests of any country, which act as a carbon sink .