Petitions for rainforest protection

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Indigenous people protesting

Indonesia: Stop the destruction of Papua’s Marind forest!

66,780 supporters
Deep holes, some filled with water, with many people in between. View from above

DRC: Exploitation of mineral resources and forests fuels violence

39,484 supporters
A child peeking through two wooden planks

Paraguay: Protect forests, safeguard Indigenous culture!

51,349 supporters
Logs in the harbor of Kinshasa

DRC: Stop harassing Congo's environmental defenders!

60,334 supporters
Hamdallaye villagers at the Sangaredi bauxite mine

Germany’s aluminum boom, Guinea’s environmental doom: Take action now!

41,286 supporters
Forest and river in Yasuní National Park

Ecuador: All eyes on Yasuní - Keep the oil in the ground!

61,213 supporters
Southern brown howler monkey mother and juvenile sitting on a power line

Brazil: Howler monkeys need protection from deadly electric shocks!

69,681 supporters
Two red macaws flying over the rainforest, wings spread

Biodiversity offsetting is a false solution: Nature is not a commodity!

53,632 supporters
Children in Kanyabayonga

DRC: People and nature in eastern Congo need peace!

51,062 supporters
A group of people protesting with large, colorful banners in front of three office buildings

Brazil: Keep Deutsche Bahn out of Amazonia!

64,433 supporters
Orangutan portrait

Indonesia: Protect the habitat of Tripa’s orangutans!

73,083 supporters
Photomontage: A chainsaw before an aerial view of the Chaco forest

Argentina: Stop the Chaco forest chainsaw massacre!

73,704 supporters
A single-engined light plane sprays pesticides over a soy plantation

Brazil: Ban the aerial spraying of pesticides!

70,473 supporters
Residents of Brooke’s Point form a human barricade in front of Ipilan Nickel Corporation’s mining site

Philippines: Help us save Palawan’s forests!

68,881 supporters
Orangutan mother and infant

Stop APRIL, Indonesia’s ruthless paper and pulp giant!

63,533 supporters
A group of indigenous people protest with a large banner on a street in a town: the banner reads: ‘The Tembé and Quilombola peoples of the Acará Valley are crying out. BBF is killing us. BBF out of our territory

Palm oil in Brazil: Return stolen community land, end the violence!

67,473 supporters
A herd of zebras under a tree surrounded by yellow grasslands

Protect savannas: NO to misguided “reforestation”!

55,557 supporters
Herd of elephants in Serengeti

World Bank: Stop financing evictions and human rights abuses in Tanzania!

81,340 supporters
Protest on a beach of Nias Island in Indonesia

Indonesia: Fight the marine bitumen spill off Nias Island!

69,818 supporters
Aerial view of an oil spill on a river in Nigeria

The oil industry is devastating Nigeria’s environment – for Germany’s benefit?

78,253 supporters
A colorful red-eyed tree frog sitting on a flower

Panama: NO to copper mining in the rainforest!

72,952 supporters
View of the rainforest from above

Indonesia: NO to a gold mine in Sumatra’s tiger forest!

82,972 supporters
Wild Chimpanzee Foundation (WCF) staff and Eco-Guards posing in front of an ancient tree in Sapo National Park, Liberia

Do not sell out Liberia's forests for Dubai's climate excesses!

68,781 supporters
Logs under palms

Indonesia: NO to the wholesale deforestation of the Mentawai islands!

90,741 supporters
A single oak tree on a clearcut; in the background a pine plantation

EU: Don't let big polluters off the hook. Say no to carbon offsets!

66,136 supporters
Waves wash over a beach on Koh Kong Island, Cambodia

Cambodia: Save Koh Kong Island!

136,105 supporters
Luis Quintero, president of the Barranquilla de San Javier community, together with other residents impacted by the expansion of the palm oil industry in the region

Ecuador: Stop land grabbing and racial discrimination for palm oil!

66,698 supporters
A large group of police in riot gear advance on a dirt road in an oil palm plantation

Guatemala: Stop the palm oil industry’s violence against the Maya!

67,403 supporters
Aerial view of a small village along a straight dirt road, with oil palm plantations cut into the rainforest behind it

Brazil: Stop land grabbing and violence for “fair and sustainable” palm oil!

78,898 supporters
Guardians of the forest

A better way to protect biodiversity: strengthening indigenous rights!

72,296 supporters
Slash and burn in Brazil

Stop the torching of the Amazon rainforest!

142,502 supporters
Villagers protesting on boats against the pollution of the Aruwimi River

DR Congo: Stop the destruction by miners and loggers in Tshopo!

106,235 supporters
Photomontage: 15 combines in a wedge formation harvesting a soybean plantation. The outline of a gas pump can be seen in the harvested area.

Stop biofuels: Keep food out of fuel tanks!

54,292 supporters
Balsa wood in a wind turbine rotor blade

Don’t plunder the rainforest for wind energy!

68,832 supporters
Indigenous man on eucalyptus plantation

Brazil: Stop genetically modified eucalyptus trees!

84,395 supporters
Bonobo in the forest, DR Congo

DRC: Do not sacrifice Congo's rainforests to the oil industry!

124,107 supporters
Indigenous Ka'apor people – children, women and men – join hands and form a circle in the rainforest

Brazil: The Ka'apor people need our support!

80,086 supporters
Kids under a tree

Paraguay: give the Manjui people their land NOW!

106,666 supporters
Montage: traffic sign with an electric vehicle in front of an open pit mine in the rainforest of Ecuador

Yes to the ‘green revolution' – but without copper and nickel from the rainforest!

87,245 supporters
Imprisoned Mother Nature Cambodia activists

Cambodia: Ten years in prison for protecting nature? Release them NOW!

105,987 supporters
environmental defender Kyaw Min Htut, Myanmar

Release detained Myanmar environmental & human rights defender NOW!

97,042 supporters
Okapis

Protect the world’s last okapis from gold mining!

106,459 supporters
Komodo dragon (Varanus komodoensis)

NO to a ‘Jurassic Park’ for Komodo dragons!

110,456 supporters
Indigenous Maasai herdsman

Tanzania: stop the eviction of the Maasai from Ngorongoro!

142,339 supporters
Three loggers sawing a freshly felled tree

Nigeria: save Cross River State's unique forests!

106,176 supporters
Giraffes

Is burning trees the new coal? Say NO to fake “renewables”!

109,692 supporters
People protesting against mining with banners and posters

Ecuador: Stop the violence by the mining industry!

111,603 supporters
Cattle herd in Mato Grosso

Protect Amazonia – NO to the EU-Mercosur Free Trade Agreement!

408,126 supporters
RIAO-RDC members with villagers from Bongemba / Yahuma

DRC: Release the palm oil protesters jailed in Mwingi!

143,724 supporters
Hippos

Keep the oil industry out of Africa’s natural treasures!

172,698 supporters
Proboscis monkey and baby

Stop the destruction of Borneo's proboscis monkey forest!

137,567 supporters
A forest elephant and calf standing in a river

Stop Nigeria's lawless palm oil juggernaut!

125,612 supporters
Women planting upland rice

Keep plantations out of Palawan Forest!

131,756 supporters
Orangutan in Central Kalimantan, Borneo

NO to “Food Estates” in the peat forests of Borneo!

174,186 supporters
Elephants enjoying a bath

Stop APP, Indonesia's brutal paper and pulp giant!

163,842 supporters
Pangolin in a cage at the Riau Natural Resource Conservation Centre, Indonesia

Shut down wildlife markets NOW!

353,208 supporters
Montage of miners in Congo and electric vehicle

Electric vehicles are stealth rainforest killers!

146,347 supporters
Pongo tapanuliensis

Stop bulldozing the Tapanuli orangutan!

399,041 supporters
Elephants Murchison-Falls-Nationalpark, Uganda

Uganda: keep the oil in the ground – save Murchison Falls!

221,858 supporters
Montage of high-speed train and Mayan ruins: Ek Balam in Yucatán

NO to tourist trains in the Mayan rainforest!

283,248 supporters
Clearing in Kinipan forest – indigenous people next to tree trunks

URGENT: Please help us save Kinipan forest!

263,301 supporters
Airbus A380 - dirty deals with palm oil

STOP dirty deals with palm oil!

288,482 supporters
A chameleon with a green and brown pattern, clinging to a branch

Ghana: don’t sell your nature to China

185,722 supporters
A woman is sitting in the water in a bay lined with rocks and a sandy beach

Sulawesi: stop dredging paradise for concrete!

179,407 supporters
An airliner over torched rainforest

Don’t trash the rainforest for “green” jet fuel!

244,761 supporters
An elephant calf in Leuser Ecosystem, Indonesia

Protect Leuser's iconic wildlife!

354,608 supporters
A Pala’wan girl carrying Taro, the local vegetable, standing in front of village huts

We need our land, not oil palms!

243,207 supporters
Men of the Mahuze indigenous people in Papua

Papua: “Surrendering our land would be suicide”

249,284 supporters
Aerial view of burning rainforest

Tell the EU to stand firm against deforestation!

79,463 supporters

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