Crisis Point

This report offers a close-up look at the threats that oil and gas expansion poses to forests, Indigenous and local communities and biodiversity in the world’s two largest tropical forest regions. It also uplifts critical global solutions.

Time is running out and bold action is required to address the scale of the challenge we face. An immediate end to oil and gas expansion and a moratorium on industrial activity in primary and priority forests and ecosystems is essential.

There is still time for African nations and the international community to chart a different path that advances economic well-being while protecting critical forests and the communities that depend on them.