By Ecological Internet’s Rainforest Portal TAKE ACTION HERE NOW! The Congo Basin [search]– home to some of Earth’s last large, ecologically intact, biodiversity rich rainforests – may soon be decimated by oil rigs, pipelines, deforestation, and oil spills. SOCO International – a London-listed oil company – has announced oil exploration plans in Virunga National Park [...]

By Ecological Internet’s Rainforest Portal TAKE ACTION HERE NOW! Plans are to build a highway through Alto Purus – Peru’s largest national park – comprised of vital intact Amazonian rainforest ecosystems and inhabited by at least two ‘uncontacted’ indigenous tribes [search]. The Alto Purus protected rainforest in south-east Peru is an area of incredible biodiversity [...]

By Ecological Internet’s Rainforest Portal and ClimateArk TAKE ACTION HERE NOW! Earth is facing the twin global ecological emergencies of abrupt climate change and land being scoured of natural ecosystems. Sadly, corporate American NGOs and the United Nations are responding to these crises by further promoting logging ancient forests. The United Nations REDD+ program to [...]

By Ecological Internet’s Rainforest Portal TAKE ACTION HERE NOW! Brazil’s industrial agriculture lobby has forced through their Congress changes to the forest code [search], the primary legal instrument related to Amazon rainforest protections. It has been done without any scientific inputs, and in a way that will greatly expand industrial agriculture by reducing ecological protections. [...]

By Ecological Internet’s Rainforest Portal TAKE ACTION HERE NOW! Belize’s renowned rainforests [search], beaches, and Mayan homelands are threatened with a resource rampage by a corrupt government confronted with massive foreign debt. With the Prime Minister’s permission, Colorado-based oil company US Capital Energy is drilling seismic testing lines through the ecologically spectacular Sarstoon-Temash national park [...]

By Ecological Internet’s Rainforest Portal TAKE ACTION HERE NOW! Plans by Uganda’s President to partially destroy the Mabira rainforest – one of the nation’s most important rainforest preserves – have surfaced again after being defeated in 2007. Let the Ugandan government know rainforests and their ecological services including water, climate and biodiversity are far more [...]

By Ecological Internet’s Rainforest Portal TAKE ACTION HERE NOW! SHAME! Rainforest Action Network (RAN) is one of the primary obstacles to protecting ancient rainforests [search] as they promote their first time industrial logging. RAN founded and ardently supports the Forest Stewardship Council’s (FSC) [search] destruction of 320,000,000 acres of primary forests (the size of South [...]

By Ecological Internet’s Climate Ark Climate Change Portal TAKE ACTION HERE NOW! Geoengineering is the proposed large scale manipulation of Earth’s oceans, soils, sunlight and atmosphere with the intent of combating climate change. With no mandate, the UN’s International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) [search] has begun talks on funding geoengineering research [search]. Past adoption [...]

By Ecological Internet’s Rainforest Portal TAKE ACTION HERE NOW! The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) [search] brand gets 70% of its timber and pulp by greenwashing current and planned destruction of 130,000,000 hectares of primary rainforests and other old forests – an area the size of South Africa. This week – at FSC’s tri-annual General Assembly [...]

TAKE ACTION HERE NOW! “Eucalyptus is the perfect neoliberal tree. It grows quickly, turns a quick profit in the global market and destroys the earth.” Jaime Aviles, La Jornada. Over a quarter of a million genetically altered eucalyptus trees have been incautiously approved for planting by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Ultimately GE tree company [...]