Editing Rainforest Action Network (section)

{{Short description|Environmental organization}}
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| name                = Rainforest Action Network
| image               = Rainforest Action Network logo.jpg
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| abbreviation        = RAN
| formation           = 1985
| founder             = [[Mike Roselle]],<br> Randy Hayes
| type                = [[Non-governmental organization|NGO]]
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| purpose             = Environmental protection
| headquarters        = [[San Francisco, California]]
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| leader_title        = Executive Director
| leader_name         = Ginger Cassady
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| website             = [http://ran.org/ ran.org]
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[[Image:Lacanja burn.JPG|thumb|right|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.<ref name=":0">{{cite web
  | last = Aronoff
  | first = Kate
  | title = U.S. activists stop Burger King from importing rainforest beef, 1984-1987
  | url = http://nvdatabase.swarthmore.edu/content/us-activists-stop-burger-king-importing-rainforest-beef-1984-1987
  | publisher = Swarthmore College
  | date = 2011-09-18
  | access-date = 2012-06-01
  | archive-date = 2013-06-25
  | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130625003849/http://nvdatabase.swarthmore.edu/content/us-activists-stop-burger-king-importing-rainforest-beef-1984-1987
  | url-status = live
  }}</ref> 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.