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GOOD NEWS---Gucci Group Commits to Protecting Indonesia's Rainforests
Environment  (tags: environment, RAINFORESTS, destruction, forests, trees, protection, humans, ecosystems )

Cal
- 4 days ago - cms.ran.org
Joining forces with Rainforest Action Network (RAN), the prestigious conglomerate of fashion and luxury brands Gucci Group has decided to eliminate all paper made from Indonesian rainforests and plantations and by controversial suppliers like Asia Pulp an
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Save Rainforests From U.S. Agribusiness Giant Cargill ! TAKE ACTION !
Environment  (tags: environment, rainforests, habitat, nature, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 12 days ago - change.org
Home to half the plant and animal species on earth, tropical rainforests are being cleared and burned to make way for palm oil plantations. Palm oil is an ingredient used in 50 percent of all consumer goods from lipstick to breakfast cereals.
16 comments
NEW Interactive Rainforest Booklet -Please Join!!
Environment  (tags: habitatdestruction, rainforests, ecosystems, destruction, conservation, wildlife, forests )

Tierney
- 17 days ago - rainforestsos.org
The PRP has just released a new online, interactive booklet that describes how rainforests are on the front line in the fight against climate change and explains how a new form of international collaboration could help to reduce tropical deforestation,
28 comments
Tell Calvin Klein, Coach, Marc Jacobs, & Versace to Stop Bagging Indonesia's Rainforests ! TAKE ACTION !
Environment  (tags: environment, protection, forests, rainforests, destruction, habitat, nature, wildlife )

Cher
- 22 days ago - change.org
As World Rainforest Week comes to an end, Calvin Klein, Coach, Marc Jacobs and Versace are failing to help us celebrate.
17 comments
Save Rainforests and Stop Climate Change ! TAKE ACTION !
Environment  (tags: environment, rainforests, protection, habitat, climate-change, nature )

Cher
- 23 days ago - change.org
Global climate change is the most important environmental issue humanity has yet faced, and the window of opportunity for action is rapidly closing. In December 2009, the United Nations is meeting in Copenhagen to negotiate a climate deal that will
16 comments
Brazilian Beef Giants Agree to Moratorium on Amazon Deforestation
Environment  (tags: ecosystems, destruction, GoodNews, forests, rainforests, Sustainabililty, protection )

Cal
- 31 days ago - news.mongabay.com
Four of the world's largest cattle producers and traders have agreed to a moratorium on buying cattle from newly deforested areas in the Amazon rainforest, reports Greenpeace.
6 comments
Ancient Rainforests Resilient To Climate Change
Environment  (tags: environment, ecosystems, globalwarming, habitat, habitatdestruction, nature, climate, investigation, science, research, study, discovery, ancient, rainforests )

Tom
- 33 days ago - sciencedaily.com
These discoveries radically change our understanding of the Earth's first rainforests. We used to think these were stable ecosystems, unchanged for tens of millions of years. Now we know they were incredibly dynamic, constantly buffeted by climate change.
9 comments
Rescue the Rain Forests ! TAKE ACTION !
Environment  (tags: environment, rainforests, destruction, habitat, nature, protection, trees, conservation )

Cher
- 39 days ago - change.org
The wold's Rain Forests are being burned and bulldozed at a frightening rate! An expanse the size of 54 city blocks will be burned as you read this. 4,700 acres are burned every hour, affecting everything; Global Warming, agriculture and drinking water.
15 comments
Environmental Groups to Use Web to Save Rainforest
Environment  (tags: environment, rainforests, tropical deforestation, protection, endangered, forests, destruction, conservation )

Dee
- 48 days ago - tech.yahoo.com
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Environmental activists are taking to the Internet in a new bid to help save the world's rainforests with the help of major corporations including Starbucks Corp and Dell Inc.
10 comments
TAKE ACTION : Join Borneo's Penan Indigenous Peoples in Standing Up to Malaysian Rainforest Destruction
Environment  (tags: deforestation, Borneo, Indigenous Peoples Rights, rainforests )

Raffi
- 60 days ago - regenwald.org
Malaysia's large, intact rainforests in the province of Sarawak, on the Island of Borneo, are nearly exhausted, and most of what remains is to be cleared and converted into industrial monocultures of oil palm and acacia trees, or flooded under
18 comments
ACTION ALERT: Support Prince's Rainforest Project
Environment  (tags: rainforests, prince's rainforest project, protection, conseravtion, environment, nature, habitat )

Simone
- 70 days ago - serbiananimalsvoice.wordpress.com
Wherever you are in the World, Please give your support today the Prince's Rainforests Project and add your voice to the many calling for urgent action to fight climate change by addressing rainforest destruction. Rainforests wrap around the equato
7 comments
PROTECT RAIN FORESTS ! TAKE ACTION !
Environment  (tags: environment, rainforests, protection, nature, wildlife )

Cher
- 140 days ago - change.org
I pledge to protect Rain Forests by going to the site and clicking the green button at The Rainforest Site to save an area of imperiled land at no cost to me
22 comments
PETITION -- Tell Daewoo to Stop Stealing Madagascar's Rainforests.
Environment  (tags: Madagascar, Daewoo, climate, ClimateChange, rainforests, Africa, CO2emissions, conservation, destruction, ecosystems, endangered, environment, forests, globalwarming, green, greenhousegases, habitat, habitatdestruction, humans, nature, politics, pollution )

Jesse
- 140 days ago - rainforestportal.org
The island of Madagascar is a veritable Noah's Ark of biodiversity, and this natural wealth is the country's primary treasure and opportunity for future ecologically sustainable development.
3 comments
Take Action - URGENT: Peru Is Murdering Amazon Protesters To Secure Oil Expansion!!!
Environment  (tags: peru, rainforests, government, environment, Hillary Clinton, secretary-of-state, u.s., UnitedStates, america, americans, protests, murder, death, oil, forests, trees, humans, clinton, corruption, crime, democrats, ethics, climate-change, conservation )

SirRobert
- 149 days ago - ga3.org
In the past several days the Peruvian government has murdered dozens of indigenous protesters, who tried to unite in peaceful protests against an oil expansion in Peru's rainforests! Take Action Now, because time is running out for many!!!
44 comments
Rainforest Is Worth More Standing
Environment  (tags: environment, rainforests, trees, nature, habitat, protection )

Cher
- 156 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
The Indonesian rainforest is worth more standing than felled say researchers.
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