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Rainforest Rescue is a German NGO that works with over fifty grassroots environmental organizations around the world. From the Congo Basin to the corridors of Brussels, we support our partners’ efforts and amplify the voices of front-line activists.
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Resistance to the Dirty Face of the Green Transition: Join us on March 5 for a #webinar exploring #resistance to #nickel #mining in #Sulawesi, #Indonesia, featuring an emblematic case from the Yes to Life No to Mining initiative. 9am GMT/10am CET. Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Murder, land grabs, displaced families: Stop the violence over palm oil in Agúan, Honduras, and protect human rights defenders! NO to trade with the palm oil company Corporación Dinant! Read our joint call to action: www.rainforest-rescue.org/files/en/Sto... #BanDinant #JusticiaParaElAguán

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#GoodNews: After a tough bureaucratic slog, the village of Tongka in #Borneo has made over 6,000 hectares of its ancestral forest OFF LIMITS to loggers, miners and #palmoil companies! Thanks to #RainforestRescue partner #SaveOurBorneo! www.rainforest-rescue.org/updates/1301...

submitted 79 days ago • 1 comment

#GoodNews: The village of Simenakhenak in Sumatra, #Indonesia is reforesting hundreds of hectares of old eucalyptus plantation land with the support of #RainforestRescue. A new forest of native rainforest trees and coffee plants is taking shape. www.rainforest-rescue.org/updates/1272...

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Vulnerable howler monkeys need protection from deadly electric shocks! Please SIGN our #petition and tell the grid operators of Porto Alegre, #Brazil to take action and stop the carnage NOW! www.rainforest-rescue.org/petitions/12...

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Please SIGN: Keep the #PalmOil industry’s bulldozers out of Sumatra's #orangutan habitat! www.rainforest-rescue.org/petitions/12... #saverawatripa #saveorangutansumatra #saveleuser #aceh #apelgreenaceh #selamatkanhutanhujan #indonesia

submitted 196 days ago • 0 comments

6 to 8 years in prison: Our fearless friends and partners of #MotherNatureCambodia are facing harsh sentences for protecting nature and standing up to repression. Read more and SIGN our #petition calling for their immediate release! www.rainforest-rescue.org/updates/1232...

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Millions of trees have been felled across #Mexico for #TrenMaya, a tourist train and vanity project of Pres. Andrés Manuel López Obrador. The first sections are being inaugurated, but the fight against the impacts in the rainforest continues. www.rainforest-rescue.org/updates/1199...

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#DaphnesLaw: The #EU finally has a directive to combat abusive #SLAPP lawsuits used by corporations and powerful individuals to silence activists and journalists, and to support public watchdogs fighting these tactics. www.rainforest-rescue.org/updates/1202...

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#Brazil: US carbon trader Wildlife Works wants to sell carbon credits for the protected #rainforest land of the #Kaapor people. The Indigenous people have said no to profiteering with bogus #climate solutions and want Wildlife Works OUT! www.rainforest-rescue.org/updates/1199...

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Ammo against trophy hunters: A recently published position paper debunks the lies of lobby groups who claim that trophy hunters somehow benefit conservation and provide income for local people. #BanTrophyHunting www.rainforest-rescue.org/updates/1195...

submitted 393 days ago • 1 comment

Violence against Indigenous people in #Brazil continues to escalate: On January 21, a mob of 200 landowners and militia members attacked the #Pataxó people. Pataxó leader Maria de Fátima Muniz Pataxó was killed and her brother wounded by gunfire. www.rainforest-rescue.org/updates/1194...

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The January 2019 Brumadinho mining dam failure in Brazil was an avoidable tragedy that cost 272 lives. Five years on, the victims still seek justice from mining giant Vale, while 23 of the company's dams remain at alert or emergency levels. The next catastrophe is just a matter of time.

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Fun fact: The Amazon was named by Spanish explorer Francisco Orellana after he was attacked by female warriors named the Icamiabas, or ‘women without husbands’. He compared them to the Amazons of Greek mythology. #DYK

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TotalEnergies sponsors AFCON but devastates African communities. Watch and share to tell them we see through their greenwashing. The EACOP pipeline could displace 100k+ people! 🌍⚽️ #StopEACOP #TotalEnergies #AFCON2023

submitted 414 days ago • 0 comments

Environmental disaster off Sumatra: A tanker wreck has been leaking bitumen for months, polluting the ocean, destroying coral reefs, mangroves and coasts. PLEASE SIGN our petition: tell the Indonesian gov't to WAKE UP and take urgent action! www.rainforest-rescue.org/petitions/12...

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We stand in solidarity with the seven Ugandan students behind bars for using their democratic voice to advocate a renewable future. Join us in demanding #FreeTheStudents immediately! #StopEACOP www.rainforest-rescue.org/updates/1187...

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Please SIGN and SHARE: 10s of 1000s in Panama are protesting a vast copper mine in the rainforest. Please sign our petition and tell the gov't that a healthy environment for all is more important than profit for the few. Yes to life, no to mining! www.rainforest-rescue.org/petitions/12...

submitted 452 days ago • 0 comments

Is the 🌎's largest biomass pellet producer going down in flames? 🔥 The gigantic North Carolina-based producer of wood pellets burned for energy on an industrial scale saw catastrophic third quarter losses, its stock tanked, its CEO was replaced and the company seems near collapse:

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Please SIGN: Tanzania's REGROW project is not about protecting wildlife: It's an oppressive and violent economic growth model designed to boost tourism revenues. Tell the World Bank to STOP THE EVICTION of 20,000 villagers under the pretext of conservation! www.rainforest-rescue.org/petitions/12...

submitted 479 days ago • 0 comments

After more than one year in legal limbo, charges were finally dropped against the nine Ugandan students arrested for peacefully protesting the EACOP pipeline. They risked their personal futures to stand up for a fossil-free tomorrow. We thank them for their courage! #StopEACOP (screenshot from X)

submitted 480 days ago • 0 comments

Police brutality and judicial harassment of young people protesting the EACOP pipeline in Uganda is reaching new heights. Uganda, stop criminalizing people for wanting a healthy future in a world free from fossil fuels! #StopEACOP www.theguardian.com/world/2023/o...

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Full solidarity with Roberto Saviano as he awaits verdict in a #SLAPP case brought by Giorgia Meloni, the current Italian PM who had sued him for criminal defamation over comments on her migration rhetoric. #StopSLAPPs

submitted 505 days ago • 0 comments

Eine super Ressource, vielen Dank von einem absoluten Noob (seit einer Stunde hier). Gibt es etwas ähnliches für englischsprachige NGOs? Asking for a friend :)

submitted 514 days ago • 1 comment

Please SIGN and SHARE: #Greenwashing meets #neocolonialism: Dubai-based Blue Carbon wants to "secure" 1 million ha. of rainforest – 10 percent of Liberia's land area – to cash in on #CarbonCredits. Say NO to fake #climate solutions! www.rainforest-rescue.org/petitions/12...

submitted 514 days ago • 0 comments