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Chip in to help hold paper villain Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) accountable.

Here are RAN, we are engaged in one of our largest campaigns yet in an emergency effort to save Indonesia‘s imperiled forests. We’re working in the U.S., Japan, and Indonesia to create the market leverage necessary to transform the corporate practices of APP, the largest paper company in Indonesia. And our campaign is working: major U.S. and European customers like Staples, Random House, Levi’s, and Gucci have stopped buying paper from controversial sources like APP.

Now is the perfect time to put more market pressure on APP, and that is directly where your support will go.
Make a tax-deductible donation to the Rainforest Action Network today.

Canadian donors, please click here.
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400 Sumatran tigers left in the wild –


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Help us save the last remaining Sumatran tigers and stop KFC from destroying rainforests by making a donation of $5 today.

Last week, over 40,000 online activists sent a message to KFC CEO David Novak asking him to end his company’s relationship with rainforest destruction.
With only 400 Sumatran tigers left in the wild, time is running out to save their forest homes from destruction for fast food packaging.
KFC is definitely feeling the heat. KFC restaurants in Indonesia have already cut business ties with notorious rainforest destroyer, Asia Pulp & Paper (APP). But there’s been nothing but a shameful silence from the company’s headquarters in Kentucky. That has to change.
It’s only going to happen if we keep up the pressure. And that’s exactly what we intend to do with your support.
Please make a donation of $5 so that we can continue to put pressure on KFC and save the Sumatran tiger from extinction.
With so few tigers left in the wild, and their habitat disappearing fast, it is important that we act now to protect them.
Greenpeace is funded by people, not corporations, and the success of this campaign depends on activists like you uniting to stand up to corporate greed.
With your support, we’ll fight back with our expert staff on the ground, international market pressure from customers, and worldwide media exposure — but we need to do it now. The Indonesian rainforest, where the only wild Sumatran tigers left on the planet live, is being destroyed every day at an alarming rate. Please donate $5 today to help save the Sumatran tigers by getting KFC to end its relationship with rainforest destruction.
For the forests,
Rolf Skar Greenpeace Forest Campaign Director

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Urge Congress to protect the world’s forests from illegal logging


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Urge your House rep to vote against the RELIEF Act, a Tea Party attempt to gut the Lacey Act
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Did you know that almost half of all rainforest destruction is done illegally?
Government corruption, lax laws and poor enforcement result in widespread illegal deforestation across the globe. This unofficial forest clearing makes it extremely challenging to truly protect critically endangered species like the orangutan or Sumatran tiger from extinction, and it contributes enormous amounts of carbon to our atmosphere.
And now the best law on the books to prevent illegal logging worldwide—the Lacey Act—is under attack.
Please send a letter today asking your congressional representative to vote against the RELIEF Act.
The Lacey Act prohibits illegally sourced wood and wood products from being imported into the U.S. and penalizes companies that trade or sell such products. It is a powerful tool for reducing global deforestation rates and protecting jobs in the American forest products industry. It has been so successful that other countries are looking to create their own versions of it.
But the Lacey Act is now under attack by those wishing to end environmental protections and regulations. Their proposals, such as the RELIEF Act, would effectively gut the Lacey Act, reversing years of hard-fought efforts to stop international deforestation.
The RELIEF Act would directly benefit notorious forest destroyers like Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) and would allow illegal loggers around the world to operate with impunity. The result would be a flood of illegal wood into the U.S. market.
Send a message today urging your representative to vote no on the RELIEF Act and any other bill that would weaken the Lacey Act.

Robin

For the forests,
Robin Averbeck             Rainforest Free Paper Campaigner             Twitter: @therightpaper
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The Sumatran tiger is almost extinct … GREENPEACE


There are only 400 Sumatran tigersremaining in the world and they’re in serious trouble.Donate today!Help us raise $60,000 by June 8th to save the last Sumatran tigers and their forest homes.

Only 400 Sumatran tigers are left in the world.

Just 80 years ago, there were three unique subspecies of tigers found in Indonesia. Today, two of them are extinct — and now the last one is in serious trouble.

At these horrifically low numbers, every day counts for the Sumatran tiger.

They need our help now. Please make an urgent donation to help save them.

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The Sumatran tiger is classified as “critically endangered” — on the brink of extinction and barely hanging on.

They’ve lost 93% of their habitat because companies like Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) are destroying their forest homes. Tigers are left to roam landscapes where they are easily slaughtered by poachers for their body parts or shot by the people moving in.

How many more acres of destruction can the Sumatran tiger survive before its status moves from “critically endangered” to “extinct”? We have to act, and fast.

To fight back, we need your help to expose the massacre, pressure corporations like KFC to cut ties with APP and fight on the ground in Indonesia to save these last remaining Sumatran tigers.

We can’t wait another day. Not when we’re dealing with a population of only 400 tigers. If we don’t act now, these beautiful animals will be pushed to extinction — gone forever.

Since Greenpeace takes absolutely no money from corporations or governments, we depend entirely on you to power our independent and hard-hitting campaigns. Will you help save these 400 Sumatran tigers?

Please help us raise $60,000 in the next 9 days to make it possible. We need just 100 people from Washington to reach our goal.

Without you, these 400 tigers don’t stand a chance. APP will continue lining its pockets with profits, poachers will continue shooting these tigers and reselling their body parts in places like China, and these last Sumatran tigers will just be collateral damage.

Together, we can stop them.

Make a gift to Greenpeace today.

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With the financial help of supporters like you, we’ve already put the squeeze on APP, convincing major companies like Nestle, Kraft and Mattel to stop buying products linked to rainforest destruction. And other companies have followed suit as well.

Over the past few weeks we’ve turned up the pressure on KFC to end their relationship with APP and to stop using rainforest fiber in its throw-away paper products. We’ve hit them in the press, at their corporate headquarters, on the web, over the phone lines and at stores around the world. We have plans to do even more — but we need your support to keep this work going and save the Sumatran tiger.

Please give a gift today to help give these last Sumatran tigers a future — before it’s too late.

Together we’ve rallied to overcome seemingly insurmountable problems and won victories to protect the planet — and I know we can do it again to save the Sumatran tiger.

Together we are powerful, together we make a difference.

For the forests,

Rolf Skar
Greenpeace Forest Campaign Director

P.S. We need just 100 supporters like you to donate from Washington to meet our goal.

Please donate right now via our secure website or by calling 1-800-722-6995.

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What’s in KFC’s secret recipe?

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KFC is trashing critical Sumatran tiger habitat with its throw-away packaging.
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Tell KFC to stop using rainforest destruction before it’s too late!
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Rainforest destruction. Not what you expected? Unfortunately it’s true. Our researchers have found that KFC’s throw-away packaging contains fiber from Indonesia’s rainforest.
That’s right. KFC is destroying the habitat of the last remaining Sumatran tigers for potato wedges and 12-piece buckets of extra crispy chicken. It’s disgusting.
KFC gets the paper for its packaging from a notoriously destructive company called Asia Pulp & Paper (APP). And APP is driving rainforest destruction in Indonesia at an alarming rate to meet KFC’s demands — leaving endangered Sumatran tigers with nowhere to go.
Don’t let fast food packaging be the end of the Sumatran tiger and everything else that calls the Indonesian rainforest home. Help us send 50,000 messages to KFC in the next 72 hours by taking action right now.
Tell KFC to stop using rainforest destruction before it’s too late.
Greenpeace activists are delivering the very same message at KFC’s headquarters in Kentucky right now. It’s all part of the next phase in our campaign to protect the Sumatran tiger and save the Indonesian rainforest.
Together, we’ve already convinced some of the world’s largest companies — Nestle, Mattel, Kroger — to cut ties with APP. Now it’s time to keep the momentum going and do the same with KFC.
It wasn’t that long ago that the Sumatran tiger thrived in Indonesia. Today there are only a few hundred left in the wild. What will this look like a week from now? A month? A year? The answer to that question is up to us.
Companies like Asia Pulp & Paper are showing no signs of letting up. Even with all of our successes, at the current rate of destruction, the forecast for these tigers and the rainforest itself isn’t looking good.
It’s not too late, but KFC has to stop buying packaging from Asia Pulp & Paper. It won’t be easy and the company is only going to do it if we generate enough public outcry. That’s why it’s so important that you take action today.
Help us expose the truth behind KFC’s real recipe and tell it to stop serving up fast food in forest destruction. Send your email today.
For the forests,
Rolf Skar Greenpeace USA Forest Campaign Director