Rainforest Action Network

Rainforest Action Network
AbbreviationRAN
Formation1985
FounderMike Roselle,
Randy Hayes
TypeNGO
PurposeEnvironmental protection
HeadquartersSan Francisco, California
Executive Director
Ginger Cassady
Websiteran.org
Jungle burned to clear land for agriculture in southern Mexico.

Rainforest Action Network (RAN) is an environmental organization based in San Francisco, California, United States. The organization was founded by Randy "Hurricane" Hayes and Mike Roselle in 1985, and first gained national prominence with a grassroots organizing campaign that in 1987 succeeded in convincing Burger King to cancel $31 million worth of destructive Central American rainforest beef contracts.[1] Protecting forests and challenging corporate power has remained a key focus of RAN’s campaigns since, and has led RAN into campaigns that have led to transformative policy changes across home building, wood purchasing and supplying, automobile, fashion, paper and banking industries.

  1. ^ Aronoff, Kate (2011-09-18). "U.S. activists stop Burger King from importing rainforest beef, 1984-1987". Swarthmore College. Archived from the original on 2013-06-25. Retrieved 2012-06-01.