Your Signature is Needed: STOP greedy corporations from slashing forests and killing animals

 

ILLEGAL DEFORESTATION IS DOOMING CREATURES LIKE ELEPHANTS AND ORANGUTANS. Imagine seeing your habitat toppled and the ground leveled as alien machines slash, burn, and churn the landscape around you. All so that a business executive on the other side of the world can stuff their pockets with cash. Money-hungry corporations like Cargill, Procter & Gamble, and Bunge profit from their suppliers’ horrific and often illegal tactics. While animals flee the devastation descending on their habitats, executives sit in high-rise offices, shielded from witnessing the horrors their companies inflict. You can fight back: Stand up to protect forests and their animal inhabitants from profit-driven destruction. SIGN THE PETITION NOW At the same time, greedy corporations are committing crimes against Indigenous peoples -- stealing their homes and livelihoods to extract cheap materials. This practice is morally abhorrent and illegal in many countries. It’s also accelerating the climate crisis. Land stewarded by Indigenous peoples sequesters and stores billions of tons of carbon. But as companies cut down vegetation, that carbon goes straight into the atmosphere, worsening what is already a CODE RED climate crisis. Corporations will squeeze every last dollar out of forests by abusing Indigenous communities, displacing animals, and burning our planet. But a bill in Congress could strike a mighty blow to deforestation. The Forest Act will ban companies from importing ingredients linked to illegal forest destruction. We need YOUR help to push it over the finish line. Will you fight illegal deforestation and call on your representatives to support the Forest Act? SIGN THE PETITION NOW Friends of the Earth  Contact Us: Friends of the Earth U.S. Washington, D.C. | Berkeley, CA 1-877-843-8687 Contact us Learn more: www.foe.org/news www.foe.org/about-us www.foeaction.org

Your Signature is Needed: YOUR MA State Comptroller must urge Bunge to end deforestation

 

DEFORESTATION IS KILLING HELPLESS ANIMALS IN BRAZIL’S CERRADO FOREST. Giant anteaters, one of only four living anteater species left, have been disappearing while profit-driven companies slash and burn the terrain that these precious creatures call home.  You can fight the destruction of one of Earth’s most vulnerable, unique ecosystems -- and do so from within the borders of your own state! Bunge, a titan commodity trader, exports colossal amounts of soy every year from Brazil. Its suppliers routinely VIOLATE laws and human rights alike, chopping down ancient trees, displacing local communities, and replacing once beautiful, biodiverse landscapes with flat, massive industrial plantations. But as a major asset owner, YOUR Massachusetts State Comptroller William McNamara wields significant influence over Bunge and their destructive deforestation. Will you sign on and demand your MA State Comptroller take action to end Bunge’s horrific practices? Sign Now There’s not a moment to lose. Right now, money-hungry corporations like Bunge are throwing Indigenous and Afro-Brazilian small-scale farmers who call the Cerrado home off their land. And those companies are doing the same thing to animals on the BRINK OF EXTINCTION. Without swift action, the land carefully managed by Indigenous communities will be deforested and plowed over by a giant American corporation. Havoc wreaked in the Cerrado by companies like Bunge doesn’t end at violence against Indigenous communities, endangering rare animals, and decimating biodiversity hotspots -- as if those transgressions weren’t enough. Slashing trees also releases enormous amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, accelerating the climate crisis. Can I count on you to urge your Massachusetts State Comptroller to flex their financial power over Bunge protect forests like the Cerrado from destruction? Sign Now Standing with you, Jeff Conant,  Senior international forests program manager, Friends of the Earth Contact Us: Friends of the Earth U.S. Washington, D.C. | Berkeley, CA 1-877-843-8687 Contact us Learn more: www.foe.org/news www.foe.org/about-us www.foeaction.org