With the number of refugees increasing rapidly, it's time we find a solution to this humanitarian crisis.

Today is #GivingTuesday. Give to EarthAction make a change in the world.“Black Friday” has gone by. “Cyber Monday” ended yesterday. People around the world have spent billions on clothing, appliances, electronics and gifts. Today, for the first time, we non-profits celebrate #GivingTuesday.

In honor of World Food Day, EarthAction is posting some of its best materials on desertification. We cannot achieve global security without food security, and we cannot achieve food security without combatting desertification.

EarthAction and 2020 Action are proud to welcome four new interns to the EarthAction Team. These new interns span across different colleges, backgrounds and cultures but all come together to help make a change in the world.

On August 6th the Phnom Penh Post reported the following VICTORY:“ In a rare victory for those battling to preserve the Prey Lang forest, the Cambodian government has cancelled four economic land concessions (ELCs) in the area totaling more than 40,000 hectares that threatened pristine ecosystems . . . [the concessions] are located in the middle of evergreen and semi-evergreen forest inside 'the largest low-land [contiguous evergreen] forest in Southeast Asia' – Prey Lang. ”"“ In a rare victory for those battling to preserve Prey Lang forest, the Cambodian government has cancelled four economic land concessions (ELCs) in the area totaling more than 40,000 hectares that threatened pristine ecosystems.The letter dated July 2 declares that four ELCs totalling 40,618 hectares have been cancelled in Kampong Thom’s Sandan district because they are located in the middle of evergreen and semi-evergreen forest inside “the largest low-land [contiguous evergreen] forest in Southeast Asia” – Prey Lang. ”

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Global Campaign to Save the Prey Lang Forest

Kony 2012, a campaign by Invisible Children to make famous the insidious actions of one Joseph Kony, leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda. Watch the video,then read EarthAction interns Christine and Walker's four reasons why this viral campaign isn’t enough to solve Uganda’s conflict and see suggestions for further research.Read our list and then you be the judge- has Invisible Children brought an important issue to it’s long awaited fame on the internet? Or has it oversimplified a complex issue and cast Westerners as the heroes?

The past two days of the World Forum on Desertification have been a great success! Thanks to everyone who has participated. If you missed it, here are some highlights:

This is a reminder that you are invited to participate in a Virtual World Community Forum on Desertification and Citizen Action -- Saving the Life-Giving Soils of the World, that will take place from Tuesday, February 28, 2012 to Tuesday, March 6, 2012.

Global Response, the action program of Cultural Survival, and EarthAction, a global network of over 2,000 organizations, are working together in support of the Prey Lang Community Network to protect and save their forest. On our websites below you can find links to communicate with Cambodian officials to urge them to cancel existing land concessions and create a sustainable management program with the permanent participation of the Prey Lang peoples. We ask your organization to please share this information widely, with other organizations, with your members, and in your newsletters.

Lawmakers have proposed narrowing the planned highway through the Khimki Forest from four lanes to two lanes, but that simply wouldn't be enough to save the rich wildlife, endangered species, and beloved birch trees from deforestation. The Movement to Defend Khimki Forest is now filling a lawsuit against the highway builders, PO 'DorInzhStroyProyect' LLC in an effort to save the threatened ecosystem.