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President Biden’s early executive orders (e.g., halting oil and gas activity in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, rejoining the Paris Agreement on climate change, establishing a bold vision for conserving habitat) are heartening, but it will take an ongoing record of truly courageous leadership to adequately confront the alarming crises that wildlife and the planet face.

They found that over percent of the released waifs survived, most remained near their release location, and disease transmission was low—all extremely encouraging signs for a humane alternative to life-long captivity or euthanasia for these animals while aiding species conservation.

A raccoon in Tennessee was euthanized after spending untold days in agony dragging around a “dog-proof” trap that had nearly amputated the animal’s leg.

Ocean travel is hard on animals to begin with, and delays can deplete food supplies quickly, potentially causing immense animal suffering.

The recommendation applies to the population as a whole, however, not to individual ecosystems.

She’s making up for lost time with her grandson and started working at a manufacturing plant.

Rainforest Action Network preserves forests, protects the climate and upholds human rights by challenging corporate power and systemic injustice through frontline partnerships and strategic campaigns.

VISION Rainforest Action Network works toward a world where the rights and dignity of all communities are respected and where healthy forests, a stable climate and wild biodiversity are protected and celebrated.

And while difficult for environmental organizing as the pandemic continues to impact the world, it has equally offered us opportunities to innovate, adapt, and secure milestone achievements across our campaigns.

We witnessed three massive brands, Unilever, ColgatePalmolive and Nestle, publicly respond to our Keep Forests Standing campaign by releasing their forest footprints, acknowledging their destructive impact.

And this past summer, after over a year of lockdowns, I was honored to be back on the frontlines in solidarity with hundreds of water protectors on Anishinaabe land in northern Minnesota.

Preserve the Rainforests Tropical forests are one of our best natural solutions against the climate crisis, but big corporations continue to profit from their destruction.

ecosystems and Indigenous territories must adopt and enforce policies to keep forests standing and uphold rights, immediately.

To halt the worst of the climate crisis we have to keep fossil fuels in the ground — and in order to do so, banks and insurers must immediately cut off the money pipeline supporting fossil fuel expansion.

And with the support of our network, we will continue to put our energy into outing and pressuring the corporations fueling the crisis.

Indigenous water protectors, pipeline fighters and many other grassroots organizations are dedicating themselves to defending land rights.

That’s why Rainforest Action Network has been challenging the expansion of the fossil fuel sector any way we can — even through the challenging times of a global pandemic.

fighting to protect their water, their community and our future.

However by carbon emissions may have already reached levels that could spark catastrophic impacts.

We must reduce emissions to as close to zero as possible as soon as possible.

With fossil fuels as the main contributor to global emissions, this means corporate and government net zero commitments cannot be taken seriously without an immediate end to fossil fuel expansion and a clear and actionable plan to phase out fossil fuels overall as quickly as possible.

Protecting forests, which act as carbon sinks and maximize carbon removal from the atmosphere, is also one of the cheapest and fastest means of reducing emissions.

Net zero commitments from global brands cannot be taken seriously without proof of an immediate end to the expansion of industrial logging, monoculture plantations and livestock ranches into forests and other natural ecosystems in their supply chains.

fossil fuels are extracted and burned, massive amounts of greenhouse gasses are released into our atmosphere.

And the very forests and peatlands that serve as carbon sinks are not only destroyed, but instead release CO2, contributing to the rise in temperatures.

Even the conservative International Energy Agency has made it clear that in order to salvage a livable future, countries should end all new fossil fuel exploration and production and stop fossil fuel subsidies.

And yet, Wall Street and banks around the globe continue to pump billions into the fossil fuel sector.

In March and the fossil fuel sector, Banking on Climate Chaos — the most comprehensive report of its kind.

We found an alarming if unsurprising disconnect between the global scientific consensus on climate change and the continued practices of the world’s largest financial institutions — the world’s have poured $3.8 trillion into fossil fuels since the Paris Agreement.

drivers of emissions in remaining the world’s worst fossil bank.

From through 2020, Chase’s lending and underwriting activities have provided nearly $317 billion to fossil fuels.

That’s why Rainforest Action Network has been pressuring insurance companies to stop insuring disastrous fossil fuel projects that are threatening the very future of our planet.

In the lead up, we delivered via billboard truck to make sure that they got the message to stop insuring fossil fuels.

What their ads don’t say is that they are a top fossil fuel insurer, backing tar sands pipelines, coal mines, and oil and fracked gas extraction that is polluting communities and fueling climate destruction globally.

In a scorecard report just released evaluating the climate progress of ranked #20 on fossil fuel insurance, #14 on fossil fuel investing, and tied for last on other climate leadership.

In financing going into deforestation across all three tropical forest basins.

Tropical deforestation and degradation contribute up to greenhouse gas emissions.

This is largely due to the burning and bulldozing of forests and peatlands for palm oil plantations, pulp and paper production, or for the rubber, timber, soy, and beef industries.

We work directly with local activists and communities literally fighting to defend their ancestral lands and forests.

People whose farms have been stolen and watched their local forests bulldozed all in the name of corporate greed.

Just three years ago, the three major Japanese banks had no policies on forests.

One of the many facts revealed in this new data is that, over the past year, forest-risk commodity investments have risen from $ billion to $45.3 billion (April 2020 - April 2021).

The site also attributes a forest protection score to institutions — a ranking of the strength of internal bank or investment policies to prevent rampant forest destruction.

Forests and peatlands sustain watersheds, mitigate rising sea level disasters, nurture biodiversity, and — critically — absorb and sequester carbon, just to name few benefits.

That’s why RAN has launched a game-changing new campaign to track the ‘forest footprint’ of banks and brands.

The forest footprint is the full accounting of how a corporation has already impacted and could impact forests and communities through past activities and potential future expansion of industrial logging and agriculture.

The report calls on destruction of rainforests and the violation of human rights to disclose their forest footprints.

candy giant to take concrete action to clean up its palm oil and forest commodity supply chains.

In October of known household brands complicit in the destruction of over 700,000 hectares — roughly the size of 1,750,000 football fields — of tropical rainforests in the Indonesian provinces of North and East Kalimantan due to their sourcing from palm oil, pulp, and forestry companies operating in the regions.

This effort is urgent as we must secure and expand Indigenous communities’ legal rights to their land, rather than hand the land over to corporations for forestry, commodity production or fossil fuel extraction.

Since 1993, RAN’s Community Action Grants program has distributed more than 5.5 million dollars through over 1,000 grants to frontline communities, Indigenous-led organizations, and allies, helping their efforts to secure protection for millions of acres of traditional territory in forests around the world and helping to keep millions of tons of carbon in the ground.

responsive to evolving needs to stand in solidarity and provide direct support to Indigenous and frontline communities across the globe disproportionately impacted by the compounding effects of a deadly pandemic, corporate resource plundering, and increasingly destructive and frequent fires and natural disasters.

Since distributed more than 5.5 million dollars through over 1,000 grants to frontline communities, Indigenous-led organizations, and allies, helping their efforts to secure protection for millions of acres of traditional territory in forests around the world and helping to keep millions of tons of carbon in the ground.

Protect an Acre grants support grassroots leadership and local organizations in forest regions to protect threatened forest lands and to protect the human rights of communities that have coexisted with and depended on these regions for generations.

Climate Action Fund grants support frontline communities directly challenging the damage caused by the fossil fuel industry.

These small grants go to local groups tackling the root causes of climate change — the extraction and combustion of dirty fossil fuels such as coal and oil.

Local and Indigenous communities have been defending their forests, protecting the biodiversity on their lands, and slowing the effects of climate change for years.

The communities, including the Pargamanan Bintang Maria-Parlilitan community, are being supported with documentation, including mapping and aerial photos of forest cover in their customary areas, as well as through networking and advocacy work as part of a multi-year effort to secure land rights to more than communities.

The first phase of the project was supported by Fundación Kara Solar in help address the Covid crisis and support territorial defense initiatives, with this phase expanding to additional communities and run by trained Sapara technicians.

The collective has been working to protect treaty rights of the Anishinaabe, as well as sacred wild rice and other food sources, medicine, diverse ecosystems, and wetlands and lakes throughout the territories.

Native Organizers Alliance $the summer, a Native-led coast-to-coast totem pole journey with ceremony that stopped in sacred places endangered by fracking, mining, dams, oil and gas transport, and other extractive industries.

LASTING Impact CIRCLE RAN’s Lasting Impact Circle recognizes those individuals who have included Rainforest Action Network in their long term charitable plans, contributing to a legacy that will protect our climate, keep forests standing, and uphold human rights.

By joining the Lasting Impact Circle, you join a community bound in a vision of a just, renewable future.

2021 was certainly another year of change and growth for the Clean Water Program.

Our dedicated partners and volunteers have truly stepped up to help us maintain our data collection - and momentum - to protect and improve water quality across the country.

The Izaak Walton League, founded in conserve, restore, and promote the sustainable use and enjoyment of our natural resources, including soil, air, woods, waters, and wildlife.

Save Our Streams - to improve water quality and engage volunteers in water quality issues.

Salt Watchers who go above and beyond with their efforts can be nominated by their peers and awarded the "Salt Watcher of the Month" title by Clean Water Program Staff.

The Clean Water Hub had even more development and growth in adding numerous monitoring sites, readings, organizations, and members contributing data.

Green dots are acceptable water quality, red dots are unacceptable, and grey dots are grey area and need further monitoring. data submissions).

Green dots are acceptable water quality, red dots are unacceptable, and grey dots are grey area and need further monitoring.

Association for Environmental Education virtual conferences and at family festivals and farmer’s markets.

Thanks to our outreach, the Creek Critters app collected reports throughout the country, 433 of which have been transferred to the Clean Water Hub.

Salt Watchers have made the news with their letters to the editor, and others and contacting their city, homeowners association, or county council to ask for change when it comes to improving their water quality.

THANK YOU to all of our monitors across the country: you are the first line of defense for clean water.

and Honorary Life Trustees Late afternoon light bathes the trees of the Tongass National Forest in Alaska.

Carlos Rojas / Getty Images Fifty years ago, Earthjustice was founded in an era of unprecedented lawmaking in response to environmental crises that gripped the public consciousness—from rivers on fire and deadly smog to massive oil spills and rampant chemical poisoning.

In the early Agency, and Congress passed our bedrock environmental laws, giving us all extraordinary power to hold polluters and the federal government accountable for protecting our health, our communities, and the ecosystems that sustain all life.

Over the last year, our scale and reach have made it possible to continue fighting the rearguard battles that began under the Trump administration, and among many other victories, we can celebrate new and restored protections for the Tongass Forest, the Arctic Ocean, and our precious National Monuments including Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante.

Meanwhile, we have ramped up affirmative litigation and advocacy to force faster progress on climate and the essential transition to clean energy, community health protection, and biodiversity defense.

This decade requires us to meet unforgiving environmental deadlines.

The devastating intersection of toxic pollution and race has only become more deadly in the pandemic.

Looking back, we celebrate the ancient forests that are still standing, the living creatures that are still thriving, all the places where people can enjoy the right to clean air and water.

With inspired and courageous partners, we are propelling a transition from fossil fuels to clean energy.

One of Earthjustice’s earliest victories, this successful suit confirmed the right of citizens to take environmental disputes to court.

Our team prevented the nation’s largest proposed coal plant from being built in the Everglades – making way for a solar plant instead.

Jill Tauber, Earthjustice Vice President of Litigation for Climate and Energy Left to right: Earthjustice attorneys Oscar Espino-Padron and Byron Chan talk with Jan Victor Andasan, a community organizer with East Yard Communities for Environmental Change, in front of the Phillips 66 refinery in Carson, California.

Hannah Benet for Earthjustice With their unparalleled expertise, our attorneys continue to hold the line against the previous administration’s assault on critical protections for communities and the environment.

Thanks to community organizing by East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice, we built a powerful case against Phillips based on years of bad practices, including failures to conduct proper inspections and repair leaking equipment that discharged toxic fugitive emissions.

Jan Victor Andasan, Community Organizer for East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice Kids play soccer near the Phillips 66 refinery in Wilmington, California.

In August, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it will ban chlorpyrifos, the toxic pesticide linked to lifelong intellectual disabilities, from all food crops.

Yanely Martinez, a city councilmember in Greenfield, California and member of Safe Ag Safe Schools, protests outside the California Environmental Protection Agency headquarters after a public hearing on adding restrictions on the use of chlorpyrifos in pesticides.

In its search for petroleum, the oil industry acquires authorizations that allow companies to “incidentally” harm whales and other animals when blasting the ocean floor with seismic air guns.

Earthjustice and a broad coalition of marine wildlife advocates spent two years in litigation fighting authorizations for air gun surveys in the Atlantic Ocean.

A HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT In May, the Maya children of Homún won a resounding victory in front of Mexico’s Supreme Court, defeating a highly polluting industrial hog facility in Yucatán, Mexico that threatened to unleash millions of pounds of animal waste, among other pollutants, into the Maya community.

Earthjustice was privileged to represent the Maya children in their fight to protect their constitutional right to a healthy environment and dignified life.

In April district court ruled that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and U.S. Forest Service violated the Endangered Species Act by unlawfully ignoring the impacts of the full mine proposal on federally protected wildlife.

Earthjustice and our partners celebrated in April when Illinois state regulators finalized rules implementing the Coal Ash Pollution Prevention Act, a vanguard law that we secured in to address coal ash pollution.

These new rules provide a model for the nation, as we work to shutter coal plants and address their enormous legacy of toxic waste.

Ohio regulators canceled permits for the Mountaineer gas storage facility which, if built, would facilitate the development of additional infrastructure that would turn fracked gas into the feedstock for plastics, emitting millions of tons of carbon pollution and cancer-causing air toxics in the process.