The 15 U.S. - based organizations – 350.org, Climate Hawks Vote, CREDO, Earth Guardians, Friends of the Earth, Green America, Honor the Earth, Institute for
Policy Studies, League of
Conservation Voters, The Hip Hop Caucus, Oil Change International, Potlach Fund,
Rainforest Action Network, Sierra Club, and the U.S. Climate Action Network (USCAN)-- represent more than 13 million combined supporters.
Between America's abandonment of leadership on
conservation and environmental
policy, Brazil's backtracking on forest
conservation, massive forest fires worldwide, and the revelation of a sharp increase in global forest loss in 2016, 2017 was a rough year for tropical
rainforests.