Agribusiness Threatens World’s Tropical Forests

The Rainforest Action Network is challenging one of the fastest growing threats to the world’s tropical forests: the rapid expansion of industrial agriculture. Fueled in part by the growing demand for biofuels, U.S. agribusiness giants ADM, Bunge and Cargill are establishing soy and palm oil operations in some of the planet’s most biodiverse forests.

Soy has become a major contributor to deforestation in the Amazon Rainforest and its surrounding wooded savanna, the Cerrado, while palm oil plantations are expanding at a rate of 2.5 million acres per year into the tropical forests of Indonesia, Malaysia and Papua New Guinea.

RAN is calling on agribusinesses to protect these vital ecosystems by stopping industrial agriculture in these areas.

How can you help the world’s tropical forests? Join RAN’s Protect-an-Acre Program.

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