Between 50 to 90 per cent of logging in key tropical countries of the Amazon basin, Central Africa and South East Asia is being carried out by organized crime threatening efforts to combat climate change, deforestation, conserve wildlife and eradicate poverty.

Understanding that we are citizenships of our own countires but also of the global community, there is a goal to advoacate for national policies and practices that solve global issues. Help the world by signing this petition.Every voice matters.

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.

There’s a symphony of life that we’re not listening to — we’re only hearing our own voices. We’re not listening to the welfare of animals or the environment that we share in. In our globalized society, it’s hard to really pinpoint where our food comes from and the impact of one meal. Changing how we eat can significantly impact who and what we support. Here's a case for why eating more vegetarian or vegan meals is a step in the right direction.

As homo-sapiens, we are undeniably members of the big taxonomic group known as the hominidae family. If you are capable of reading this, behaving socially, feeling, thinking, and of having a personality and characteristics that determine your own, personal and unchangeable individuality, then you must recognize yourself as a human being. The big hominidae family, also known as the “great apes”, has four surviving evolutionary descendant groups: chimpanzees and bonobos, gorillas, orangutans, and humans. The similarities between us and the other great apes are noticeable by simply giving a quick glance. Furthermore, the social behavior, abilities and even mental capacities of the other great apes are comparable to our own; no expert can deny this. According to the Great Ape Project, an international organization that advocates for great ape personhood, the DNA between two human beings can be up to 0.5% different. Between a human and a chimpanzee, the genetic difference is of only 1.23%. Such is the similarity, that chimpanzees can actually donate blood to humans and vice-versa. However, what is this great ape personhood that was referred to?

Indiengous people continually are displaced from their ancestoral land and their forests are explotited by mulitnational corporations and the government. Check out this amazing documentary produced by the Indigenous Peoples Alliance of the Archipelago (AMAN) about their fight for indepedence and protection.

Water is life and we live on a water planet, though it doesn’t appear that way in the many places we call home. With the twin problems of desertification and commdification escalating, water is becoming more and more of a scarce resource. One area hit especially hard is sub-Saharan Africa where the weight of this burden disproportionately affects women and affects the family at large. It is estimated that women in sub-Saharan Africa collectively spend about 40 billion hours a year collecting water.

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.

The aim of achieving food security across the globe will become increasingly elusive unless countries factor the planet's nature-based services into agricultural and related planning, a report released today from the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) says.Safeguarding the underlying ecological foundations that support food production, including biodiversity will be central if the world is to feed seven billion inhabitants, climbing to over nine billion by 2050 argues the study Avoiding Future Famines: Strengthening the Ecological Basis of Food Security through Sustainable Food System.

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.

Publisher Eco Comics has today announced the launch of a comic book series featuring one of the most iconic and prolific characters from myth and legend, the Green Man.For over a millennium carvings of the Green Man have spread throughout churches, abbeys and cathedrals across the UK and Europe, and can also be found in the USA and Canada.

Dear President Obama and Governor Romney,As candidates for president, you both support construction of the southern (OK-TX) leg of Keystone XL, a pipeline that would transport tar sands through the Great Plains from Montana to refineries in Texas.We call on you to withdraw your support for this project in light of the overwhelming evidence, available to both of you, that Keystone XL threatens America’s economy, public health, and national security.

Child marriage happens on a daily basis in up to 50 countries around the world. While many believe that child marriage can elevate families beyond poverty and provide a better life for the child bride, in reality it often perpetuates the cycle of poverty, abuse and suffering. On the International Day of Girl Child, October 11, 2012, the United Nations Population Fund will bring awarness to the issue of child marriage, the consequences and the sorrow associated with being a child bride.