# Rainforest Action Network

> Rainforest Action Network is a San Francisco environmental nonprofit that treats corporate reputation, financing and supply chains as pressure points. It combines investigations, public campaigns, shareholder action and direct grants to Indigenous and frontline groups to push banks, insurers and consumer brands toward stronger forest, climate and human-rights policies.

- **Founded:** 1985
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, United States
- **Founders:** Randy Hayes (Co-founder), Mike Roselle (Co-founder)
- **Products:** Corporate accountability campaigns, Community Action Grants, Banking on Climate Chaos, Keep Forests Standing, Investigations and policy scorecards
- **Notable:** Burger King cancelled $35 million in Central American cattle contracts in 1987 after RAN's first major campaign., Home Depot committed in 1999 to stop selling wood from endangered forests, followed by several other large retailers., A coalition involving RAN helped produce protections covering more than 3.5 million acres of Canada's Great Bear Rainforest in 2001.

## Products & services

- **Corporate accountability campaigns** — Research, organizing, nonviolent direct action, negotiation and follow-through aimed at changing policies and practices at brands, commodity traders, banks and insurers.
- **Community Action Grants** — Rapid, accessible grants for Indigenous and frontline groups through Protect an Acre and the Climate Action Fund; more than $8 million distributed through over 1,200 grants since launch.
- **Banking on Climate Chaos** — An annual, coalition-produced dataset and report tracking lending and underwriting by the world's largest banks to fossil-fuel companies.
- **Keep Forests Standing** — A campaign and public scorecard evaluating major consumer brands on deforestation, Indigenous rights and supply-chain accountability.
- **Investigations and policy scorecards** — Satellite monitoring, field investigation, supply-chain mapping and financial research used by communities, journalists, investors and allied campaigners.

## Achievements

- Burger King cancelled $35 million in Central American cattle contracts in 1987 after RAN's first major campaign.
- Home Depot committed in 1999 to stop selling wood from endangered forests, followed by several other large retailers.
- A coalition involving RAN helped produce protections covering more than 3.5 million acres of Canada's Great Bear Rainforest in 2001.
- Disney adopted a no-deforestation paper policy in 2012 after 18 months of campaigning and negotiation.
- More than 200 major companies adopted No Deforestation, No Peatland and No Exploitation policies during the decade-long Leuser campaign era.
- The Community Action Grants program has distributed more than $8 million through over 1,200 grants since 1993.
- Harita Group committed in 2024 to make Long Isun territory a no-go zone for future commercial development.
- RAN reported that Chubb stopped insuring three major LNG pipelines after campaign pressure and a conservation-policy update.
- Banking on Climate Chaos 2025 was endorsed by more than 500 organizations in 69 countries and received over 300 articles in its first week.
- Procter & Gamble strengthened forest, supplier, Free Prior and Informed Consent, and human-rights-defender policies in 2025 after sustained campaigning.

## Latest updates

- **2026-06** — RAN and coalition partners reported that the world's 65 largest banks financed fossil fuels with $906 billion in 2025 and $8.7 trillion in the decade since the Paris Agreement.
- **2026-06** — RAN challenged MUFG at its annual shareholder meeting over financing tied to fossil fuels and alleged human-rights harms.
- **2026-05** — RAN welcomed Mondelēz International's move to make human-rights-defender protections a contractual supplier obligation while continuing to press for implementation.
- **2026-05** — RAN, Louisiana groups and Urgewald filed a human-rights complaint against Allianz concerning LNG risks.
- **2026-03** — Activists staged Stop Oreo Day actions in at least a dozen US cities, targeting Mondelēz over forests and human rights.
- **2025-11** — RAN staff unanimously ratified their first union contract through the RAN Alliance for Workers' Rights.
- **2025-11** — RAN published its 2025 annual report and reported more than $825,000 distributed through Community Action Grants during the year.

## Links

- Website: https://www.ran.org/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/rainforest-action-network
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/ran
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/RANVideo
- Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/ran.org
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rainforestactionnetwork/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rainforestactionnetwork/

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Last updated: 2026-09-24