We’re dedicated to fighting rainforest destruction.
Here’s where we’re active

We’re working around the world, supporting our partners on the ground in tropical countries. Find out more about where we’re involved and what we’re doing.

  • Petitions
  • Successes
  • Donation Alerts
A Sumatran orangutan in a tree

Indonesia

Indonesia: The wild orangutans are back!

Good news from our projects in the Leuser Ecosystem in Sumatra: Orangutans are returning to the reforested areas, and our rangers are curbing poaching.

Children in Kanya Bayonga

49,761 supporters

DRC: People and nature in eastern Congo need peace!

For 30 years, the people of the eastern DRC have endured constant violence. Now, the conflict is heating up again. The people and nature of the DRC need peace.

Orangutan portrait

71,007 supporters

Indonesia: Protect the habitat of Tripa’s orangutans!

Officially, the peat forests of Sumatra are protected as a habitat for critically endangered orangutans. The encroachment of oil palm plantations must stop NOW!

Maasai women and men in colorful cloths at a market, a woman looks at the camera

Tanzania

Tanzania: Government backs down after Maasai protests

Tanzania’s government tried to strip 100,000 Maasai of voting rights to force them from their lands. After protests, the plan was reversed.

Aerial view of two large rectangular deforested areas and access roads cut into the forest

Argentina

Court suspends deforestation of Argentina‘s Chaco

A court order gives the environment and the people suffering from the corruption-driven deforestation of Chaco a reprieve.

Southern brown howler monkey mother and juvenile sitting on a power line

26,193 supporters

Brazil: Howler monkeys need protection from deadly electric shocks!

Howler monkeys in the Brazilian city of Porto Alegre are being killed or seriously injured by electric shocks from improperly insulated power lines and pylons.

A group of people protesting with large, colorful banners in front of three office buildings

62,792 supporters

Brazil: Keep Deutsche Bahn out of Amazonia!

We call on the German government and the state-owned Deutsche Bahn AG not to participate in the destructive GPM project in the Amazon rainforest.

Smallholder families receive legal support from CPT Maranhão

Brazil

Brazil: Smallholder families successfully defend land against agribusiness giant

Brazilian smallholder families received legal assistance to take on an agribusiness giant and fight for their ancestral land.

Arrest of an activist from Mother Nature Cambodia

Cambodia

Mother Nature Cambodia activists sentenced to six to eight years for defending nature

A Phnom Penh court sentenced environmental activists from Mother Nature Cambodia to lengthy prison terms on Tuesday, July 2. We demand their immediate release!

Residents of Brooke’s Point form a human barricade in front of Ipilan Nickel Corporation’s mining site

59,278 supporters

Philippines: Help us save Palawan’s forests!

The Philippine government is opening vast areas of rich biodiversity and Indigenous land to mining. Please sign our petition – speak out against this crime against nature!

Group of Indigenous Awyu in traditional clothing

Indonesia

Indonesia: Prestigious award for Papua’s Indigenous Awyu activists

A great honor for the Indigenous Awyu from Boven Digoel in southern Papua: the Indonesian Tasrif Prize for freedom of the press and freedom of expression.

Indigenous Batwa: women and children in a village near Bukavu

Democratic Republic of the Congo

DRC: Expulsion of the Batwa people ruled unjust

The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights has issued a historic ruling in favor of the Indigenous Batwa: They have the right to return to their ancestral lands.

Subscribe to our newsletter.

Stay in the loop on rainforest conservation issues with our free newsletter!