Tragically, most of the world’s original forests have already been lost or degraded, and those that remain are falling fast. The scale and pace of deforestation in Indonesia alone is so extreme it is having devastating consequences for species, communities and the climate. RAN’s campaigns are designed to confront the two primary drivers of this destruction, the expansion of palm oil plantations and logging by the pulp and paper industry.

K-2 Winning Poster by Class 1-5, Park View Elementary

Check out the winning entries and a gallery of finalists at www.ran.org/posters. Great work, congratulations to everybody who participated… thank you!

Lastly- don’t forget to sign up for Tiki updates so you can hear about Team Tiki activities happening around the world!

Can you (and your class, if you are a teacher) send valentines to a company and tell them to have a hearrrrrt for the world’s rainforests??

A big company called Cargill Incorporated is having a harrrd time realizing how important it is to protect rainforests!

Tell Cargill: "HAVE A HEART!"

Their CEO is named Mr. Gregory Page and he needs to hear from YOU what really matterrrrs: rainforests! Rainforests provide homes for animals (like me!), plants and trees. Rainforests keep our planet healthy and cool our climate. Can you tell this guy to have a heart and stop cutting down rrrainforests?

“Well why is his company cutting the rainforest down?” you might ask… Good question! Cargill imports palm oil into the United States. Palm oil comes from a certain kind of palm tree. Cargill wants so much palm oil that they are cutting down the rainforest to make more room for giant oil palm farms. Then palm oil gets put into all kinds of stuff: soap, lotions, even candy bars and cookies!

We might like some of that stuff too, but not enough to cut to the rainforest! Fortunately YOU can made a difference.

Make a Valentine forrr Gregory Page, Cargill Inc. CEO telling him to HAVE A HEART for the world’s rainforests.

Send it to him at this address:

Gregory Page: CEO, Cargill Inc.

PO Box 9300
Minneapolis, MN
55440-9300
United States

If you wanna take a picture with your whole class holding up their valentines to Cargill, we would LOVE to see your great work! Please get perrrrmission to share these photos, and we can post them on Tiki’s blog! You can email photos to: tiki@ran.org

Thanks! Together we can save Indonesia’s rainforests!

Love,
Tiki The Tiny Tiger

Thanks! Love, Tiki

Todd Parr and Tiki, photo: RAN/Lola Catero

Hellllo everyone! Tiki the Tiger here. I just made the coolest new friend everrr, and I want you to meet him! His name is Todd Parr, and he is a children’s author – that means that he writes books for kids. I like Todd because sometimes he is silly and makes me laugh, but I also like Todd because he loves and cares for the Earth, our home.

Todd and I recently hosted an event together at The Booksmith in San Francisco. At the event, Todd read all of his favorite books, including my all-time favorite, The Earth Book. This roarrrsome book teaches us how we can take care of the earth each and every day. And The Earth Book is even printed on recycled paper – meaning no trees, especially those in my rainforest home, were cut down to make it!

After Todd read his books, my friends at Rainforest Action Network, helped

Roaring for Tiki, photo: RAN/Lola Catero

me to tell my story (since not everyone can understand when tigers speak). They told everyone that my forest home in Indonesia was being cut down for paper used in books. No one was happy when they heard that, so everybody, big and small, ROARed with me and agreed that rainforest-safe books, like the Earth Book, were the way to go.

The whole day was tigerrrific! Thanks to Todd Parr for being my friend (and favorite author) and to the Booksmith for hosting us and supporting rainforest-safe books! I hope we can all get together again one day soon! For more photos of the event, check out my Facebook page!

GreenFest was rrRoarsome over in the Kids Zone with Tiki The Tiger! During storytime we taught kids about RAN’s favorite spokestiger and gave out tons of masks, bookmarks, and stickers! Overall it was a great weekend and Tiki made friends with kids, students, teachers, and writers!

Click here to download Tiki Adult Mask

Still need a Halloween costume? Want to be the cutest, sweetest, tiniest tiger in the whole wide world AND help save rainforests?

You can be Tiki the Tiny Tiger!

A costume with a cause: download and print your very own Tiki mask! This Halloween, download a free Tiki mask (there are kids and adults sizes). You can even pass out Tiki bookmarks when you go trick-or-treating to help spread the word about Tiki.

Even if you already have a costume, you can still take a picture in the mask and send it to Tiki@ran.org to help show publishers how many of us love books AND rainforests. Either way, have fun with this mask, and let us know how it goes.

Tiki is the Rainforest-Free Paper campaign’s new Spokestigerrrr and he needs your help to protect his endangered home: the rainforests of Indonesia. Currently, there are less than 500 Sumatran Tigers left in the wild, so we’ve got to act fast. Right now, we are focusing on telling book publishers to stop making children’s books out of destroyed rainforests. Have you signed the petition yet?

Learn more about Tiki and how to help save Indonesia’s rainforests here. Teachers, download Team Tiki class kits today!

Apparently you can’t always tell a rainforest unsafe book by its cover, but you can tell a rainforest safe book by locating a few key labels. Rainforest safe books are printed on:

• Post-consumer recycled paper
• FSC certified paper
• Recycled paper

So when you buy a book, look for these labels to check if it’s Tiki-certified! I certify environmentally safe books that don’t destroy my home!

As you know, my little roar isn’t heard by many people and I need your help to find out what companies and publishers are destroying my home. But first I need to find out what books and companies are not! There is just one problem…I am all the way in Sumatra.

That’s where you come in.

Will you help me by sleuthing your local bookstore for rainforest safe book titles? It’s a perfect activity for World Rainforest Week, coming up on October 17-23. It will be tigerrrrific! You and your friends can be detectives in search of FSC and Recycled symbols!  When you find a rainforest safe book, give yourself a paw-on-the-back and write down the title and author. The more books your find the longer our rainforest safe reading book list will be!

From there, I am certain we can find out what companies are destroying my home and together we will roar loud and clear for my home, Indonesia’s rainforests.

Sign up here!

For my home,

Tiki, The Tiniest Tiger in the World

If you love books AND rainforests then help us tell America’s publishing industry that books must not contribute to rainforest destruction. Sign our petition today.

Here are some fun facts about Tiki and his tiger friends in the rainforests of Indonesia:

• Fossils show that tigers lived in Indonesia two million years ago.

• There are less than 500 Sumatran Tigers left in the wild!

• A group of tigers is called a streak.

Tiki and his friends love to swim! Photo Source: Auckland Zoo

• Tigers’ tails are three to four feet long.

• Sumatran Tigers are meat eaters. Their diet includes deer, pigs, young rhinos, snakes, and tapirs. They can eat up to 40 pounds of meat in one sitting! However, they can survive for days without food.

• Of all six subspecies of tigers in the world, the Sumatran Tiger (that’s Tiki!) is the smallest, weighing approx. 250 lbs.

• Tigers are nocturnal. They see six times better at night than humans.

• Tigers have the largest canines out of any land-based carnivore.

Sumatran tigers are smallest tigers in the world. Photo Source: ZooBorns

• Tigers are excellent swimmers, and they have webbed paws to help them swim faster.

• Tiger cubs stay with their mothers for 18 months before they are able to hunt for themselves.

• Since they are top predators, Sumatran Tigers are important because they maintain the balance between all animals and plants, predators and prey within the forest ecosystem.

*Please see our bibliography for our primary and secondary fact sources.