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Truth and Consequences: Palm Oil Plantations Push Unique Orangutan Population to Brink of Extinction

nobody@flickr.com (Rainforest Action Network) — Fri, 04 May 2012 14:05:30 -0700

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Photos from Rainforest Action Network's recent report which exposes the devastating effects of palm oil plantations on Sumatra's Tripa forest and all its inhabitants. Learn more: ran.org/tripa-expose

A bulldozer amongst newly planted oil palm on the edges of the Tripa forest in 2009.
Photo: David Gilbert

Occupy SF and Occupy the Food System on #F27

nobody@flickr.com (Rainforest Action Network) — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 14:05:15 -0800

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Occupy SF and Occupy the Food System hosted a seed exchange in front of the Bank of America at 101 Market as part of Occupy Our Food Supply global day of action on February 27th, 2012. Activists from www.labelgmos.org/ were also there collecting signatures for a California ballot initiative to label genetically engineered foods.

Learn more about Occupy Our Food Supply.

Occupy SF and Occupy the Food System on #F27

nobody@flickr.com (Rainforest Action Network) — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 14:05:23 -0800

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Occupy SF and Occupy the Food System on #F27

nobody@flickr.com (Rainforest Action Network) — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 14:03:53 -0800

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Occupy SF and Occupy the Food System on #F27

nobody@flickr.com (Rainforest Action Network) — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 14:04:48 -0800

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Occupy SF and Occupy the Food System on #F27

nobody@flickr.com (Rainforest Action Network) — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 14:02:01 -0800

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Occupy SF and Occupy the Food System on #F27

nobody@flickr.com (Rainforest Action Network) — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 14:02:54 -0800

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Occupy SF and Occupy the Food System on #F27

nobody@flickr.com (Rainforest Action Network) — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 14:04:22 -0800

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Truth and Consequences: Palm Oil Plantations Push Unique Orangutan Population to Brink of Extinction

nobody@flickr.com (Rainforest Action Network) — Fri, 04 May 2012 14:05:19 -0700

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Photos from Rainforest Action Network's recent report which exposes the devastating effects of palm oil plantations on Sumatra's Tripa forest and all its inhabitants. Learn more: ran.org/tripa-expose

Acehnese children look out from their home nearby the flooded peat forest of Tripa, Indonesia.
Photo: David Gilbert

Truth and Consequences: Palm Oil Plantations Push Unique Orangutan Population to Brink of Extinction

nobody@flickr.com (Rainforest Action Network) — Fri, 04 May 2012 14:05:26 -0700

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Photos from Rainforest Action Network's recent report which exposes the devastating effects of palm oil plantations on Sumatra's Tripa forest and all its inhabitants. Learn more: ran.org/tripa-expose

A hanging bromeliad in the Tripa flooded forest. The inundated peat soils that give the water its characteristic black color are the result of thousands of years of accumulation of the rich plant life of the forest.
Photo: David Gilbert

Truth and Consequences: Palm Oil Plantations Push Unique Orangutan Population to Brink of Extinction

nobody@flickr.com (Rainforest Action Network) — Fri, 04 May 2012 14:05:35 -0700

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Photos from Rainforest Action Network's recent report which exposes the devastating effects of palm oil plantations on Sumatra's Tripa forest and all its inhabitants. Learn more: ran.org/tripa-expose

The story of land cover change in Tripa is one of deforestation to make way for agribusiness expansion.

Graphic Credit: Wich et al. 2011

Truth and Consequences: Palm Oil Plantations Push Unique Orangutan Population to Brink of Extinction

nobody@flickr.com (Rainforest Action Network) — Fri, 04 May 2012 14:05:37 -0700

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Truth and Consequences: Palm Oil Plantations Push Unique Orangutan Population to Brink of Extinction

nobody@flickr.com (Rainforest Action Network) — Fri, 04 May 2012 14:05:24 -0700

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Truth and Consequences: Palm Oil Plantations Push Unique Orangutan Population to Brink of Extinction

nobody@flickr.com (Rainforest Action Network) — Fri, 04 May 2012 14:05:36 -0700

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Truth and Consequences: Palm Oil Plantations Push Unique Orangutan Population to Brink of Extinction

nobody@flickr.com (Rainforest Action Network) — Fri, 04 May 2012 12:03:31 -0700

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Truth and Consequences: Palm Oil Plantations Push Unique Orangutan Population to Brink of Extinction

nobody@flickr.com (Rainforest Action Network) — Fri, 04 May 2012 12:03:34 -0700

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Truth and Consequences: Palm Oil Plantations Push Unique Orangutan Population to Brink of Extinction

nobody@flickr.com (Rainforest Action Network) — Fri, 04 May 2012 12:03:32 -0700

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COLLAGE: "Corporate Person" Cargill, Inc. Under Arrest on Anniversary of Citizens United

nobody@flickr.com (Rainforest Action Network) — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 14:00:02 -0800

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On the two-year anniversary of the highly controversial Citizens United ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court, Minnesota residents are fighting back against corporate personhood. Occupy Minneapolis, Rainforest Action Network and allies have staged an arrest of "corporate person" Cargill, Inc. at the Minneapolis Grain Exchange.

LEARN MORE: “Occupy Cargill” Activists Stage Citizen’s Arrest on Cargill, Inc.

Photos by: Aaron Hays

"Corporate Person" Cargill, Inc. Under Arrest on Anniversary of Citizen's United

nobody@flickr.com (Rainforest Action Network) — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 13:02:25 -0800

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On the two-year anniversary of the highly controversial Citizen's United ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court, Minnesota residents are fighting back against corporate personhood. Occupy Minneapolis, Rainforest Action Network and allies have staged an arrest of "corporate person" Cargill, Inc. at the Minneapolis Grain Exchange.

LEARN MORE: “Occupy Cargill” Activists Stage Citizen’s Arrest on Cargill, Inc.

Photo by: Aaron Hays

"Corporate Person" Cargill, Inc. Under Arrest on Anniversary of Citizen's United

nobody@flickr.com (Rainforest Action Network) — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 13:02:36 -0800

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