World Rainforest Movement
Dear friends, we ask for your support. Our colleagues from the No2Bidco Campaign in Uganda and Kenya have contacted us to request support for their struggle against Bidco Africa. This multinational company -in a joint venture with Wilmar...
read moreViolence, appropriation and resistance: Eastern and southern Africa
Large Hydropower Dams Are Not the Answer: Time to Rethink Africa’s Energy Infrastructure
Carbon Colonialism: Failure of Green Resources’ Carbon Offset Project in Uganda
Uganda: The Batwa issue declaration calling for their rights to be recognized
Uganda: Carbon sink plantation – where trees are more important than people
Uganda: BIDCO Oil palm plantation expansion will further put at risk local communities livelihoods
Uganda: Why Is FSC Certifying Land Disputes and Human Rights Abuses at Mount Elgon?
Uganda: Thousands of Indigenous People evicted from FSC-certified Mount Elgon National Park
Uganda: Bujagali dam project questioned by World Bank’s Inspection Panel
Uganda: Bujagali dam project comes back under a new disguise
Taarifa hii ya pamoja kati ya Timberwatch Coalition na World Rainforest Movement inalenga katika mambo mbalimbali ya ndani na nje yanayojulisha kuhusu hali ya mabadiliko ya mashamba makubwa ya miti kwa ajili ya viwanda katika nchi 11 za...
read more New briefing: “Industrial Tree Plantations Invading Eastern and Southern Africa” In the context of emerging global trends in respect of escalating climate change, growing economic disparity, and increasing land degradation,...
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REDD: A Collection of Conflicts, Contradictions and Lies presents summaries of reports from 24 REDD projects or programmes with a common characteristic: they all show a number of structural characteristics that undermine forest...
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Original version by Ricardo Carrere – updated by the WRM in 2013. Oil palm is a traditional native crop for West and Central African communities, who are used to either plant them on their lands or to collect fruits, leaves or sap...
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Oil palm and rubber plantations are very similar in many respects, but there is something that clearly differentiates them: oil palm is a native species in many West African countries –and part of the culture of local peoples- while...
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By Chris Lang and Timothy Byakola “A funny place to store carbon: UWA-FACE Foundation’s tree planting project in Mount Elgon National Park, Uganda”, by Chris Lang and Timothy Byakola, documents human rights abuses at Mount Elgon...
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Demand Swedish Energy Agency to suspend future payments to Green Resources and cancel the deal for purchase of carbon credits! The operations of Green Resources—a Norwegian industrial tree plantation and a carbon offsets company—have...
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The short film “Sacred Voices”, supported by the African Biodiversity Network and the Gaia Foundation, shares the messages of eight traditional Sacred Site Custodians from Kenya, Ethiopia, South Africa and Uganda. Sacred Sites in...
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A film from “The Source Project” looks at how communities in the Karamoja region of Uganda have been organising along with the Uganda Land Alliance to ensure that their communal land rights are respected, in the face of large-scale...
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The Global Forest Coalition launched a new report on ‘REDD+ and the Underlying Causes of Deforestation and forest Degradation’ based on five case studies in Brazil, Colombia, India, Uganda and Tanzania elaborated by national...
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We have produced an interactive map that sumarizes some of the information gathered in the publication “Oil palm in Africa: past, present and future scenarios“. The publication contains a general introduction to the issue of oil...
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Released on the eve of the World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty in Washington DC, April 23-26, 2012, two new films reveal widespread violations of people’s rights and environmental destruction from land grabbing...
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Commissioned by the Global Forest Coalition This report is based on 21 country case studies, including Australia, Brazil, Cameroon, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Czech republic, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Kenya,Malaysia, the Netherlands, New...
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Industrial oil palm plantations are rapidly expanding, not only in Liberia. In many African countries expansion projects are happening and plans are announced. Everywhere they go, the companies promise jobs and development. Produced by the...
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