Mighty Earth

Indiana University Football just brought home the national title. For sports fans, this is one of the most unexpected championships in recent memory. But let's not forget the real MVP: the sun bear at the Atlanta Zoo, who picked IU to win the Peach Bowl.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4AfJ0dHEPU

While we're celebrating Indiana pride, it's worth facing a harsh truth: Indiana-based RV companies are connected through their supply chains to practices that harm sun bears in their native habitat in Indonesia. These companies, like Elkart, Indiana-based Thor, Patrick Industries, and Forest River, along with Winnebago, are buying massive amounts of wood from the rainforest there. This is leading to massive deforestation in one of the world's biodiversity hotspots. As this forest disappears, sun bears lose the land they need to survive.

So let's do both things at once:

Celebrate IU's championship season. Honor the sun bear who believed in IU and push these Indiana companies to clean up supply chains and protect rainforests, wildlife, and especially the IU-loving sun bears.

Hoosier pride should mean winning on the field and doing right by the planet. Sign the petition to get RV companies to stop harming Sun Bear habitat.

https://www.mobilize.us/mightyearth/event/830886/

Zoo Atlanta bear picks IU to win Peach Bowl! Xander, a 27-year-old Malayan Sun Bear from Zoo Atlanta, chose the Hoosiers to win the Peach Bowl Friday.

📆 At the last day of , in cooperation with , , , , , , , and , Migthy Earth is promoting a seminar to talk about a key issue for the Amazon: traceability in the meat supply chain.

At the session, we will bring together:
🎤 Samanta Nascimento Fabbris, Researcher analyst for the Healthy and Sustainable Food Program, Idec
🎤Hélen Freitas, Journalist,
🎤 Ritaumaria Pereira, Executive Director, Imazon
🎤 Rosana Quaresma Maneschy, Professor at the Center for Environmental Studies,
🎤 Dari Santos, Impact Lead, Do Pasto ao Rastro (as a moderator)

Ensuring full transparency and robust traceability is essential to protect forests, uphold Indigenous and community rights, and shift Brazil’s livestock sector toward genuinely sustainable practices.

📍 The event is open to public and will happen at the Auditório Professor Armando Dias Mendes - NAEA, at the .

See you there. 💚

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📅 Today at we’re diving into how the beef supply chain can tackle a climate super polluter: methane.

The panel discussion with a major meatpackers and global retailer will also examine stronger accountability and accelerating the protein transition.

📍 If you have a badge for the Blue Zone, join us at Super Pollutant Solutions Pavilion, from 11 AM to 12 PM.

Catamounts. Cougars. Pumas. Panthers. Whatever you call them, they once roamed the Northeast – and they have an opportunity to do so, once again. On , here’s what you need to know and why it’s important.

These majestic big cats are “keystone species” that help create healthy, balanced forests. Their return could restore vital ecological functions and build resilience in the face of climate change.
Learn more about Bringing Catamounts Home in the links in our bio!

Americans’ love of RVs tied to destruction of orangutan habitat: Investigation JAKARTA — Global calls are mounting for RV companies in the U.S. to change their policies following new revelations that some of America’s best-selling RVs are built with plywood from the destruction of orangutan habitat in Indonesian Borneo. While companies like Winnebago say they’re now “w...

ACT NOW: Recreational vehicle manufacturers are destroying massive rainforests in Indonesia.

The New York Times has just published an investigation into who is behind the largest example of deforestation in Indonesia. Today's front page story shows that U.S.-based RV-makers like Winnebago, Thor, and Forest River are building camper vans, travel trailers and motorhomes with wood from companies that have destroyed vast swathes of endangered orangutan habitat. Almost every other industry that uses this type of wood has standards to ensure protections for wildlife and their forests, but these RV manufacturers haven't even taken this basic step...yet.

Write to their CEOs now and demand that these companies stop contributing to destruction of orangutan habitat!

RV Industry: Stop the Destruction of Rainforests · Mighty Earth **Recreational vehicle manufacturers are destroying massive rainforests in Indonesia.** RV-makers like Winnebago, Thor, and Forest River are building camper vans, travel trailers and motorhomes with wood from companies that have destroyed vast swathes of endangered orangutan habitat. Almost every ot...

Indigenous Peoples are guardians of the forests wherever they call home
The fiercest protectors for not only their communities, bút for biodiversity and wildlife. This we are highlighting two fights against Indigenous People’s that are happening on opposite sides of the world. Here’s why it’s important and what you need to know.

For more information on the forest protectors from the post above, check out the link in our bio!

Did you know? 🛒 Major grocery stores like Safeway are leaking harmful HFC gasses from their refrigeration systems, fueling the climate crisis. It's time to demand climate-friendly solutions now! 🌍❄️
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/major-grocery-stores-must-take-action-to-stop-climate-change/?source=group-mighty-earth-3&referrer=group-mighty-earth-3

Safeway, what’s the hold-up? 🕒 Supermarkets must commit to phasing out HFCs by 2035 and adopting climate-friendly refrigerants in all stores. The planet can’t wait! 🌍❄️ https://actionnetwork.org/letters/major-grocery-stores-must-take-action-to-stop-climate-change/?source=group-mighty-earth-3&referrer=group-mighty-earth-3

🚨 New Poll: Europeans overwhelmingly support strong action to combat !

👉 A recent survey across seven European countries reveals that 84% of people want swift enforcement of the EU Deforestation Regulation ( ).
👉 73% say implementing this law should be a top priority for the EU.

The message sent by Europeans couldn’t be clearer: now is the time for the EU to lead the way in forest protection!

Despite this, the European Commission has proposed to delay the law by 12 months, bowing to pressure by some governments and agriculture and forestry industry associations.

The final vote to decide whether the legislation is delayed by a year takes place next week. We’re urging the EU to listen to the electorate.

Commenting on the survey, Dr. Julian Oram, Policy Director at Mighty Earth said:

“This year we’ve witnessed unprecedented fires, flooding and storms fuelled by global heating, of which deforestation is a key driver. These poll results should leave EU Parliamentarians in no doubt that their citizens strongly back swift implementation of the EUDR. Politicians can’t allow enforcement of this vital law to be derailed by agribusiness and forestry industry lobbyists content to let global deforestation run rampant for another year.”

Read our press release 👇

Majority of Europeans say strong law enforcement needed to combat deforestation - Mighty Earth A new poll conducted across seven European countries reveals overwhelming public support for the groundbreaking EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR), due to come into force on December 30, 2024. The survey, conducted by Savanta, shows that 84% of all respondents want to see implementation of the law,....

“Enormous swathes of pristine forest are being cut down across Indonesia to supply the rapidly rising international demand for biomass material seen as critical to many countries’ transitions to cleaner forms of energy.”

Biomass is the wrong answer to our clean energy needs. A new AP article outlines how Indonesia is exporting over a hundred thousand tons of wood pellets to Japan and South Korea each year. Indonesia’s government has plans to continue to increase biomass capacity, despite the severe threat it poses to its forests.

To achieve the ambitions of Indonesia’s state-run utility, “a 66% increase in forest plantation land would be needed — which would likely come at the expense of intact, carbon-rich and carbon-absorbing forests,” according to a report by Mighty Earth.” Mighty Earth’s “Wasted” report details how Japan’s biomass push in Southeast Asia lays waste to forest, undermines climate progress and drowns recipients in debt.

The biomass industry perpetuates coal usage in places like Japan as wood pellets are burned alongside fuel for energy that is then called “renewable” and “sustainable.” Cutting down trees is anything but sustainable; it harms biodiversity and releases carbon that would otherwise be trapped in intact forest.

Thanks to Victoria Milko at the AP.

Read the article in full here: https://apnews.com/article/indonesia-biomass-deforestation-energy-coal-japan-south-korea-22d17f5a00abbccb59960438590ab31c

Indonesian forests pay the price for the growing global biomass energy demand The global push for biomass that can be burned for energy is causing concern about the price Indonesia's forests are paying.

Join Mighty Earth Satya Bumi and Fern NGO next Tuesday 5th November at 14:00 CET/ 08:00 ET, to discuss “The Toxic Truth: The global nickel rush and its impact on the lives of Indonesia’s last nomadic sea tribe”

The webinar will be facilitated by Hans Nicholas Jong - Mongabay

Speakers include:
Magdalena Miskiewicz - Directorate-General for Trade, European Commission
Kathrin Schilling, Phd - Dept. Environmental Health Sciences, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
Dr. Indrashree D. - Healthspring Family Health Experts
Christopher Alford - The Sunrise Project Inc.
Sayyidatiihayaa Afra - Satya Bumi


The event will bring together leading voices from government, industry, academia and civil society, to discuss the impacts of global nickel supply chains on the health, livelihoods and environment of communities, particularly the sea nomad community, Bajau People, in Kabaena, Southeast Sulawesi and across Indonesia, and the role of national and international governments, mining companies, and the auto industry, in addressing these growing concerns.

The small island of Kabaena - home to Indonesia’s last nomadic sea tribe, the Bajau - has been ravaged by deforestation, toxic water pollution, and land grabbing at the hands of nickel mining companies. This webinar will spotlight the experiences of Kabaena’s Bajau People and reveal new research by Satya Bumi into the health risks associated with living surrounded by contaminated waters. The report also indicates that nickel from Kabaena is linked to global EV battery supply chains and automakers in the US, EU, China and South Korea.

Register for the webinar here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Gj239unGTT-V4lZ6JjuKbg #/registration