Campaign: The Last Stand of the Orangutan

This campaign by Rainforest Action Network adresses the consequences of irresponsible palm oil policies. If you (like myself a few minutes ago) didn't knew about this, I'll try to explain what it is about (learn more in here). Many of the snacks we eat (from Nestlé, Kellogg and PepsiCo, for example) have palm oil, and it's high demand leads to massive destruction of rainforests in Indonesia and Malaysia to create palm oil plantations. 

Now, how does this relates to the orangutans? By destroying millions of acres of forest they are also destroying their habitat, pushing them to the brink of extinction (there are only 60,600 now). And it's also worsening climate change and causing widespread human rights violations.

RAN has identified the 20 companies that most contribute to this issue, and is asking us to speak up: "Take action now to call on the Snack Food 20—companies that control some of the best-known snack food brands in the world—to remove "conflict palm oil" tied to rainforest destruction and orangutan extinction from their products. These companies rely on our trust as consumers, so if enough of us speak up, the Snack Food 20 will have to change the way they do business.".

If you want to help, do it here and here.

Solving Global Warming: Doing Something

Petition: Climate Name Change

The goal of this petition is to create awareness for those who think that climate changes and global warming are a fantasy and not an imminent reality. This is directed for politicians who ignore and deny this issue, and with this belief they resist and stop climate changes policies.

If you want to help, sign here.

From their website:

"Since 1954, the World Meteorological Organization has been naming extreme storms after people. As scientific evidence shows that climate change is creating increasingly frequent and devastating storms, and with climate scientists declaring these extreme weather events as the new normal, we propose a new naming system. A system that names extreme storms caused by climate change, after the policy makers who deny climate change and obstruct climate policy."

Petition: Protected area in the Canaries

The sharks are a endangered species and, although people don't realise it, a crucial part of the ecosystem. Here's a spanish petition to create a protected area in the Canaries, not only for sharks as also for rays and chimaeras. It's an alternative in order to protect the species of being hunted for their flesh or derivatives (such as the their fins and liver oil).

In you want to help the these animals, sign here.

And I'd like to share a comment from the creator of the petition - Suso Rodas: 

"S.OS sharks and rays in the Canaries: 

In our waters are being committed many atrocities, and many of them only hint at the enormous degree of barbarity and callousness that we can have with the natural environment around us. I think by now we can not speak of ignorance or simple ignorance.

Every day, dozens of tourists are led in charters (recreational fishing collective list 6th) to catch various species of fish, some of them very important for the sustainability of our marine ecosystems and whose populations are threatened with extinction, as is for angels, stingrays, stingrays and other sharks."