Mighty Earth 🌍

[Commentary] Meeting in Yerevan near Mount Ararat, delegates at CBD COP17 face a modern "Noah’s Ark" moment. In a new op-ed, @mightyearth.org founder and CEO Glenn Hurowitz calls on world leaders to chart a bold new course for global biodiversity conservation before it’s too late.

An estimated 658 Tapanuli orangutans remain in the wild, confined to the forests of Batang Toru ecosystem in northern Sumatra. Our new report with Satya Bumi sets out six urgent actions to save the species: https://mightyearth.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Code-Red-for-the-Tapanuli-Orangutan.pdf

Great work by @mightyearth.org describing how both the US administration and private US companies worked to delay and weaken EU rules against deforestation www.theguardian.com/environment/...

GREAT ENVIRONMENT AND CLIMATE NEWS!!! (Not a typo!) The Indonesian government has cancelled its insane Food and Energy Estates project, which would have deforested a land mass the size of Maryland. Amazing work by @mightyearth.org. A massive victory for the planet. mightyearth.org/article/indo...

We are hiring! We are looking for a VP of Finance and Operations. The successful candidate will have at least 10 years of finance and accounting experience in a nonprofit setting, with a minimum of 5 in a leadership capacity for a finance department. More info: https://mightyearth.org/careers/

We are hiring in Brazil! 🇧🇷 We're looking for a Senior Associate: Climate and Environment. This role will focus on transforming the meat and dairy industry, prioritising campaigning, project management and communications skills. If that sounds like you, apply here: https://ow.ly/sxBe50ZCkAO

0% of analyzed supermarkets acknowledge that outsized methane emissions from meat and dairy production is a major driver of climate change, yet ZERO supermarkets have outlined a plan to reduce those emissions. Read more: https://ow.ly/jA0a50ZwpuW

Ahold Delhaize claims climate leadership, but our Methane Action Tracker shows a huge gap. Its agriculture emissions actually went UP 5%, major US brands are excluded from plant-based targets, & there's no methane reduction plan. Learn more: https://ow.ly/E3uq50Zwpuv

"Rather than retreat from climate ambitions, companies like McDonald’s should focus on implementing menu shifts to lower-impact, plant-based foods and support industrywide policies that will make their own climate commitments achievable." Read the full letter from Mighty Earth's Sammy Herdman here:

This May, McDonald's announced that they will not reach their 2030 climate target – and made no commitment to try to get back on track. Considering their enormous impact on the climate, the consequences are severe. Read more: https://mightyearth.org/article/mcdonalds-climate-commitments-cooked/

We decided to join McDonald's in Las Vegas as it celebrated its biennial Worldwide Convention. Will McDonald's leadership choose the planet over short-term profits? Learn more: https://mightyearth.org/article/mcdonalds-climate-commitments-cooked/

Climate change is impacting global food systems, so why aren’t supermarkets taking it more seriously? Especially US supermarkets like Kroger, Costco, Walmart, Albertsons, and Publix which are performing worse than European counterparts at tackling superheating methane emissions.

Who decides what’s on your plate? Supermarkets decide what's on shelves, what's promoted, what's affordable, and what's visible. That means they can support climate-friendly, deforestation-free foods. The question isn't whether supermarkets have influence. It's whether they'll use it. 🌱

Yesterday, Earthsight and @mightyearth.org assembled outside Lineapelle London, a major leather trade fair, to ask tanneries and fashion brands: do you know where your leather comes from? 📢 Brands using leather must demand that all the leather they buy is deforestation-free and legally sourced.‼️🐄

A Mighty Earth 🌍 report was mentioned in The Guardian & Los Angeles Times coverage of protests surrounding Hyundai's FIFA World Cup sponsorship, highlighting environmental & human rights concerns linked to the company's steel supply chain. Read more ➡️ https://bit.ly/4vDPOzH https://bit.ly/445UL8s

The #FIFAWorldCup is here—and so is Hyundai's greenwashing. While promoting EVs at World Cup, #Hyundai still sells millions of fossil-fueled cars each year. Its annual emissions are comparable to Spain's. Our open letter: www.greenpeace.org/eastasia/blo... @publiccitizen.bsky.social @sierraclub.org

What Colombia is doing could be implemented by other South American countries with large cattle herds, like Brazil and Bolivia, and we’ll be supporting work to make that happen. But there’s no need to wait: The largest meat companies in the world can and should require traceability now.

McDonald's has a climate impact equivalent to 16 coal fired power plants. “Do better. Change” sums up what we heard from people on the streets of Las Vegas during McDonald’s biennial Worldwide Convention. 👉 mightyearth.org/mcdonalds

Join us for a casual networking event with drinks & canapes at London Climate Action Week! Alongside photos & short films, hear from Indigenous campaigners from Brazil & Indonesia. RSVP ➡️ https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/stories-from-the-deforestation-front-mighty-earth-at-lcaw-tickets-1991207708859

“The expansion of mining and dam construction in this vulnerable rainforest habitat has left a great ape species, one of our closest relatives, on the brink of extinction." @mightyearth.org www.express.co.uk/news/world/2...

McDonald's won't engage with us. So we showed up at its Vegas convention with the McBurn & Burp Award. We're asking for: global plant-based options, methane action, and deforestation-free meals. It’s time to deliver. mightyearth.org/mcdonalds

McDonald's beef and soy suppliers are linked to deforestation from the Amazon to Australia. We went to the streets of Las Vegas during McDonald’s Worldwide Convention to ask people how they feel about it.👉 mightyearth.org/mcdonalds

McDonald's keeps ignoring our message. So, we drove it straight to the door at its Worldwide Convention in Las Vegas. More plants, less meat on menus. Reduce methane. Eliminate deforestation. 👉 Learn more: https://mightyearth.org/mcdonalds/

We don't want McDonalds to leave this week’s Worldwide Convention empty-handed. We’re here to present leadership with the ultimate recognition of its climate and nature failure: The McBurn & Burp Award 🏆 Learn more: https://mightyearth.org/mcdonalds/

Dear Fashion Brands, why are you silent? With 16 civil society organizations including @mightyearth.org , @greenpeace.eu , @globalwitness.org, @umwelthilfe.bsky.social and @wwf.eu, we asked the European Fashion Industry to speak up. Because their absence is being read by decision-makers as consent.

The proposal to remove leather from the #EUDR creates a ridiculous loophole...it means meat from cattle reared on deforested land would be banned, but the cow skins and hides would not. The two are intrinsically linked – to put it bluntly, the meat can’t be accessed until the skin is removed.

In our new report, Shelved Again: Supermarkets’ Missing Action on Methane, we ranked 20 of the world’s largest supermarkets on methane action and commitments and found that the sector is still lacking ambition – and the US is still lagging behind Europe.

Today, 34 organisations from across the globe are releasing a joint statement ahead of the Illicit Finance Summit. We're calling for stronger rules, greater transparency, and real accountability in the gold trade. Read our priorities: https://tinyurl.com/8c6r84pu

Our thanks to you, @doggett.house.gov, and to all of your colleagues who co-signed for your leadership on this issue. The Trump administration does not speak for all Americans. The EUDR is an important policy for protecting the world's forests and should be implemented without further delay.

"We're in a battle to save the world's forests and the US lawmakers make that point in their letter...the EU must hold the line and not bow to undue pressure from the Trump administration." - Isabel Fernandez, Senior Advisor, Mighty Earth 🌍

For this US #EarthDay, Mighty Earth is calling on supermarkets to pull the “climate emergency brake” by transparently reducing methane emissions!

GHG Protocol's new land use standards close significant loopholes around biomass and agricultural leakage, notes Mighty Earth 🌍's Amanda Hurowitz, raising the bar for corporate carbon accounting. More work remains to be done, but these changes show progress:

Latest SteelWatch report gives steel makers a failing grade on clean energy transition "It's essentially just cursing the U.S. steel industry to another 20 years of being the dirtiest that's out there," said Matthew Groch of Mighty Earth 🌍 More:

Yeah we'll take this on a Friday - always up for a feel-good nature story:

Proud to have signed onto this letter ->

A palm oil firm has cleared more than 7,500 acres of forest inside a UNESCO biosphere reserve in Indonesian Borneo, threatening areas identified as orangutan habitat. @mightyearth.org news.mongabay.com/2026/03/palm...

Mighty Earth & Greenpeace International 🌍 are calling on McDonald's to protect the Soy Moratorium: "McDonald's can be a saboteur or a saviour...The fast-food giant must choose to fight for a mechanism that has spared huge swathes of the Amazon rainforest from being destroyed over the last 20 years."

In the first study of its kind, Mighty Earth finds that leading supermarkets across four Asian countries are not doing enough to tackle climate pollution in their meat, dairy and rice supply chains.

Today is #WorldRewildingDay! In the Northeast US, a movement is building around the return of catamounts, an iconic native species that helped shape the region’s forests for thousands of years. They’ve been missing since 1881, but their story isn’t over. Join us: https://www.bringcatamountshome.org/

In a world of electrostates, Trump and his blind corporate sycophants are threatening to turn American drivers into a bunch of chumps, locking us into dirty, polluting cars while the rest of the world races ahead to a cleaner, safer, more affordable future.

WATCH: More diggers, more destruction. Indonesia's Food & Energy Estates - the state-led industrial clearing of rainforests, grasslands and wetlands in South Papua - is set to be the world's largest deforestation project. Indigenous communities want their land and their peaceful way of life back.

Last year, the Dutch Grand Prix switched to serving burgers made from a 50-50 blend of beef & seaweed - without telling anyone. Why not announce the change? "Our fan base consists of petrolheads...we [would] get 20,000 complaints." In the end, they served 29,000 burgers and nobody noticed.

RVs shouldn’t kill orangutans, and RV lovers deserve better than vehicles made with wood from destroyed forests and orangutan habitat. RV companies must do their part to protect rainforests by committing to responsible wood sourcing standards. The latest on our campaign:

In the latest episode of ESG: Global, Florence Iveson speaks with Alexander Wijeratna @mightyearth.org. Together, they discuss the organisation’s groundbreaking legal strategies aimed at confronting the environmental and human rights impacts of industrial agriculture. Listen: ow.ly/mkHX50YoZoW