The Movement to Save the Rainforest w/ Randy Hayes, founder of Rainforest Action Network

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The 1980s saw a new consciousness of environmental awareness, particularly around the Earth’s rainforests. Scientists had discovered that, aside from their enormous biodiversity, rainforests also helped to keep carbon from being released into the atmosphere.

Corporations in the U.S. and Europe saw tropical rainforests as a means  for profit. For a long time, Indigenous communities had stood against  industrial development and deforestation. And by the 1980s, environmental groups in Europe and Australia had been actively fighting  deforestation on a grassroots level. But in the U.S. environmental  movements had failed to evoke widespread activism on the subject.

This episode is about the emergence of rainforest movements in the U.S. during the 1980s with one of the founders of Rainforest Action Network  (RAN)– Randy Hayes.

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Bonus Video: Randy Hayes talks about the founding of Rainforest Action Network

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In the 1980s, a movement emerged globally in solidarity with Indigenous communities to save the world’s remaining rainforests. We talk with co-founder of Rainforest Action Network (RAN) about it.

Described by the Wall Street Journal as “an environmental pit bull,” Randy Hayes is the co-founder of Rainforest Action Network, and is an author, filmmaker and environmentalist. Hayes is a veteran of many high-visibility corporate accountability campaigns and has advocated for the rights of Indigenous peoples throughout the world. He is currently the executive director of Foundation Earth and a consultant to the World Future Council, based in Washington, DC