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Pygmy Hippopotamus Choeropsis liberiensis
The rare and secretive Pygmy Hippopotamus clings to survival as their forest habitat is destroyed for palm oil and meat, help them when you boycott palm oil!Palm Oil Detectives
Fruit Bats: Super Seed Dispersers Growing African Forests
Fruit bats AKA flying foxes are vital in Africa’s forests as seed dispersers boosting biodiversity. Take action to save these protectors of the rainforest!Palm Oil Detectives
Pygmy Hippopotamus Choeropsis liberiensis
The rare and secretive Pygmy Hippopotamus clings to survival as their forest habitat is destroyed for palm oil and meat, help them when you boycott palm oil!Palm Oil Detectives
Protected areas hit hard as Mekong countries’ forest cover shrank in 2024
BANGKOK — The Mekong countries of Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam lost a combined area of tree cover of nearly a million hectares in 2024, or an area almost the size of Lebanon.Morgan Erickson-Davis (Conservation news)
Fruit Bats: Super Seed Dispersers Growing African Forests
Fruit bats AKA flying foxes are vital in Africa’s forests as seed dispersers boosting biodiversity. Take action to save these protectors of the rainforest!Palm Oil Detectives
Deforestation Raises Temperatures Up To 4.5℃
Forests directly cool the planet, like natural evaporative air conditioners. So what happens when you cut them down? In tropical countries such as #Indonesia, #Brazil and the #Congo, rapid #defores…Palm Oil Detectives
How We End Gold Mining’s Ecocide For Good
Gold mining is unparalleled in its environmental destruction and human rights toll. Frustratingly, 93% of gold is used for non-essential purposes like jewellery and investments. A recent study sugg…Palm Oil Detectives
#Gold 🥇🚫 is a controversial commodity because it is unmatched in destruction to #indigenous peoples and #forests. A new study shows how we can end the #ecocide of gold #mining for good! #BoycottGold #BoycottGold4Yanomami wp.me/pcFhgU-90d?utm_source=ma…
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How We End Gold Mining’s Ecocide For Good
Gold mining is unparalleled in its environmental destruction and human rights toll. Frustratingly, 93% of gold is used for non-essential purposes like jewellery and investments. A recent study sugg…Palm Oil Detectives
🌳 #News: @UniofOxford #Research finds while selective logging alters tropical #forests, converting them to #palmoil causes greater harm, especially to #biodiversity. Preserving logged forests is crucial. #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife
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Logged Forests Thrive, While Palm Oil Leaves Little Alive
Research finds selective logging alters forest structure, but palm oil conversion causes more severe damage to biodiversity. Take action boycott palm oil!Palm Oil Detectives
Borneo Forest Dragon Gonocephalus bornensis
The #Borneo Forest Dragon, also known as the Borneo Anglehead #Lizard is a vividly coloured lizard native to Borneo. This arboreal #reptile is known for their prominent crest and beautifully camouf…Palm Oil Detectives
#Forests cool the planet, like natural #aircon. What happens when you cut them down? #Deforestation heats areas up to 4.5℃! Keep forests standing for #people and animals! #Boycottpalmoil 🌴🪔🧐🙊⛔️ #BoycottGold 🥇🪙🧐🙊🚫 #Boycott4Wildlife
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Without Tropical Forests, The World Would Be 1°c Warmer
#Research reveals the most comprehensive and detailed evidence to date that #forests are more important to the #climate (globally and locally) than we think due to the way in which they physically …Palm Oil Detectives
"The bottom line is that, globally, deforestation has gotten worse, not better, since the beginning of the decade.
We’re only six years away from a critical global deadline to end deforestation, and forests continue to be chopped down, degraded, and set ablaze at alarming rates,”
Ivan Palmegiani, consultant at the research group Climate Focus
#Forests #Deforestation #Trees #Environment #Biodiversity #ClimateEmergency #Beef #Soy #PalmOil
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Deforestation ‘roaring back’ despite 140-country vow to end destruction
Demand for beef, soy, palm oil and nickel hindering efforts to halt demolition by 2030, global report findsDamian Carrington (The Guardian)
#nature #biodiversity #Ecosystem #ecosystems #forest #forests #rainforest #tree #trees #deforestation #Petition
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Stop APRIL, Indonesia’s ruthless paper and pulp giant!
The paper giant APRIL/Royal Golden Eagle (RGE) and other companies owned by billionaire Sukanto Tanoto have been destroying the Indonesia's rainforests and the livelihoods of local communities for half a century.www.rainforest-rescue.org
The end of the great northern forests? The tiny tree-killing beetle wreaking havoc on our ancient giants
“This is a global phenomenon but it is also a complicated story,” says Prof Diana Six, a forest entomologist at the University of Montana.
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The end of the great northern forests? The tiny tree-killing beetle wreaking havoc on our ancient giants
Forests across Europe, the US and Canada have been hard hit by drought, fires and bark beetles. Now scientists fear the northern hemisphere’s greatest carbon sink is nearing a tipping pointPatrick Greenfield (The Guardian)
Ten years since anti-deforestation pledge, corporate world still not doing enough
It was supposed to be a major milestone, back in 2014, when hundreds of governments and companies came together to sign the New York Declaration on Forests, aimed at eliminating natural forest loss worldwide.alexandrapopescu (Conservation news)
predicting that up to one million #animal and #plant species could soon be extinct.
Some #forests are already deemed “empty” in the wake of rampant #hunting and #poaching.
This problem goes beyond China and the current coronavirus pandemic and is driving the extinction of species in many countries, so we are calling for the worldwide closure of wildlife markets.
Please sign and share our petition and speak out against these barbaric markets.
- Rainforest Rescue
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Shut down wildlife markets NOW!
With their brisk trade in endangered and poached animals, wildlife markets in many countries are driving the extinction of species. The markets are also breeding grounds for diseases that can also be deadly to humans.www.rainforest-rescue.org
#Petition #nature #biodiversity #Ecosystem #ecosystems #forest #forests #rainforest #tree #trees #deforestation
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Guard Old-Growth Forests from Logging
Mature and old-growth forests are a vital part of a healthy planet. They fight climate change, support healthy watersheds and withstand wildfire better than young forests. Sadly, most old-growth forests have been logged. Help save what’s left.act.biologicaldiversity.org
Palm oil free and vegan Christmas recipes
Wondering how to cook #vegan and #palmoilfree this Christmas or Hannukah? Help keep the rainforests standing and resist #extinction with 10 cruelty-free and healthy recipes. These dishes feature oo…Palm Oil Detectives
"Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do."
- Michel de Montaigne
#PalmOil #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife #PalmOilKILLS #Conflictpalmoil #nature #biodiversity #Ecosystem #ecosystems #forest #forests #rainforest #tree #trees
#deforestation#Together4Forests
"Gone for good? California's beetle-killed, carbon-storing pine forests may not come back
Ponderosa pine forests in the Sierra Nevada that were wiped out by western pine beetles during the 2012-2015 megadrought won't recover to pre-drought densities, reducing an important storehouse for atmospheric carbon."
🔗: sciencedaily.com/releases/2023…
#California #SierraNevada #forests #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #GlobalWarming
#Petition #nature #biodiversity #Ecosystem #ecosystems #forest #forests #rainforest #tree #trees #deforestation #Together4Forests
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#PandaDay #AnimalCruelty #StopAnimalAbuse #StopAnimalCruelty #animals #animal #AnimalRights #nature #biodiversity #Ecosystem #ecosystems #forest #forests #rainforest #tree #trees #deforestation #Together4Forests
