Whereas, for far too long corporate interests, driven by short-term profits, have worked to divide labor and environmental movements, disingenuously painting our issues as a jobs versus the environment choice; and
The U.S. Forest Service announced it will withdraw its decision on the Mitkof Island Project, a large 35 million board foot timber sale. The project is in the center of the Tongass National Forest, in Alaska.
Jakarta, October 7, 2015 — Released today, shocking drone footage captured by Greenpeace field researchers shows the massive underground peat fires currently burning across Indonesia.
In a victory for Arctic defenders everywhere, Shell cites economic reasons and a "challenging regulatory environment" in its decision to halt drilling in Alaska's Chukchi Sea.
Corporate commitments to stopping deforestation can lead to protections for forests. The soy industry — once the largest driver of deforestation in the Amazon — proves it.
Amy Moas traveled more than 3,000 miles to one of the last intact forests in North America, the boreal forest of Canada. There, she got a first-hand look at the struggle to save the Cree Nation of Waswanipi land from industrial logging. This is what she saw.
Cargill's announcement comes just a few days from the first anniversary of the New York Declaration on Forests. Its new policy failed to uphold this commitment by establishing a weak 2030 deadline for most commodities.
A Canadian indigenous community's fight to save its ancestral land from predatory logging is gaining steam.
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