World Rainforest Movement
Only abailable in Spanish – Comunicado de Prensa de RECOMA 16 de enero de 2008. En carta enviada a ambos gobiernos, la Red Latinoamericana contra los Monocultivos de Árboles, (RECOMA) una red descentralizada con representación en...
read moreSeptember 21st: International Day of Struggle Against Monoculture Tree Plantations
Resistance by Women Defenders of Territory to Extractivism in Latin America
“Consultation” as a tool of exclusion: A choreography that hides land grabbing
Trade deals threaten peasant farmer’s stewardship of seed biodiversity
REDD+ in Central America: it’s better to ask for forgiveness than permission
Environmental regulation in the Green Economy: Changed to facilitate destruction
Territories and food sovereignty: Where the struggles of peasants and forest communities converge
Stora Enso and GM trees: Intensifying destruction of forests and peoples
REDD Alert! How REDD+ projects undermine peasant farming and real solutions to climate change
Mining, militarization and criminalization of social protests in Latin America
Manifesto for the International Day for the defense of the mangrove forests
Logging concessions; basis of an industry, or political control?
Femicide and Impunity: A humanitarian crisis in Central America, and a growing problem worldwide
Why are women fighting against extractivism and climate change?
Tree factories: An overview of the impacts and interests behind GE trees
RSPO: fake promises promoting further oil palm plantations expansion
Mangrove territories: “Culture, tradition and a vital space for coastal peoples”
July 26: International Day for the Defense of Mangrove Ecosystems
International Day in Defense of Peasants’ and Farmers’ Seeds
International campaign to define forests for their true meaning
How the industrial food system contributes to the climate crisis
Declaration of the People’s Summit on Climate Change, Lima, Peru
Challenges for the struggles of women rooted in their territories: A decolonial perspective
Alliance for the Food Sovereignty of the Peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean
Accelerating deforestation: Financialization as a driver of infrastructure projects
10th Anniversary of the International Day of Struggle against Monoculture Plantations
Women of the Amazon defend the rainforest from the dangers of oil drilling
The struggle and resistance of mangrove communities in Latin America
Open letter from Latin American women’s network to governments and social movements
Statement of Asia Social Movements on Climate Change at the Asia Social Movements Assembly
Oil palm plantation workers in Central America: The experience of Rel-UITA
“12 Replies to 12 Lies about Oil Palm Monoculture Plantations” has been updated. The publication now includes a chapter about how oil palm companies lie when they say they respect women’s rights.
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Only available in Spanish and Portuguese. Download here the full document in pdf format in Spanish or in Portuguese Documento informativo del Movimiento Mundial por los Bosques Tropicales (WRM) Desde la década de 1960 está en curso el...
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By Chris Lang The area of industrial tree plantations is expanding in the global South. Vast areas of monocultures have been established to feed raw material to the pulp and paper industry. This report investigates the role of European...
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Selection of articles published in the monthly electronic bulletin of the World Rainforest Movement, addressing the impacts of the oil palm plantations in the forestss. Oil Palm. From Cosmetics to Biodiesel, Colonization Lives...
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By the World Rainforest Movement This book gathers articles published in the monthly electronic bulletin of the World Rainforest Movement (WRM) regarding indigenous peoples and their struggles in defence of the forest. These peoples are...
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Forests are one of the most valuable eco-systems in the world, containing over 60 per cent of the world’s biodiversity. This biodiversity has multiple social and economic values, apart from its intrinsic value, varying from the...
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Press release. Redmanglar Internacional questions the fact that shrimp farms, fish culture ponds and salt mines are considered by the RAMSAR Convention as artificial wetlands. These industries must be classified in the listings of...
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Mangrove peoples and communities have a close bond with mangroves, fishing and the seas. Mangroves and the seas are wholly interconnected natural elements, as is the life of marine coastal peoples. That is why this July 26 the slogan for...
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From September 25-27, 2012, subnational governments from six countries will arrive in the city of San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, México, to promote and advance advance the new shadow program with which they hope, by way of...
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Only available in Spanish – La Esperanza Intibuca, Honduras Del 17 al 20 de julio del 2003 Preocupados por la creciente invasión de proyectos de construcción de represas que vienen imponiendo las grandes transnacionales y organismo...
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Only available in Spanish – Cooperativa Unión Maya Itzá, Petén – Guatemala 21 al 23 de marzo de 2002 Durante los días 21 al 23 de marzo nos hemos reunido hombres y mujeres de 98 organizaciones y comunidades de 21...
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On November 12, with the endorsement of organizations from five continents, Friends of the Earth International and World Rainforest Movement publish an open statement denouncing the failure of the RSPO to eliminate the violence and destruction that oil palm plantations.
read more We invite organizations to sign on and support the statement, which denounces that the RSPO, since it was created 14 years ago, has been a tool that served the corporate interests of the oil palm sector
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Only available in Spanish América Latina, 02 de marzo de 2017 A un año del asesinato de Berta Cáceres A un año del intento de asesinato de nuestro compañero Gustavo Castro La Red Latinoamericana contra los Monocultivos de Árboles...
read more América Latina, 26 de diciembre de 2016 La Red Latinoamericana contra los Monocultivos de Árboles (RECOMA) expresa su apoyo y solidaridad con nuestra organización hermana Acción Ecológica (AE) ante la amenaza de clausura que recibiera...
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Letter to be sent to: Dr Rafael Correa, President of Ecuador rafael.correa@presidencia.gob.ec Ministro de Ambiente walter.garcia@ambiente.gob.ec, wgarcia@ambiente.gob.ec, Ministro Interior fuentesd@outlook.com C/C...
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Only available in Spanish or Portuguese 21 de setiembre de 2016 Día Internacional de Lucha contra los Monocultivos de Árboles Descargar como pdf aquí Este 21 de setiembre, las organizaciones integrantes de La Red Latinoamericana Contra...
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Only available in Spanish 5 de junio – Día Mundial del Medio Ambiente En ocasión del 5 de junio, Día Mundial del Medio Ambiente, la Red Latinoamericana contra los Monocultivos de Árboles (RECOMA), una red de organizaciones...
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de EU Latin America. This video explains how a trade relationship – mainly based on the extraction of raw materials – is contributing to depletion of non-renewable natural resources, global warming and social...
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The coordinating team of La Via Campesina in the state of Pará, Brazil, has compiled in a book the political struggles waged over time in the Amazon and the initiatives organized. In addition to a systematized introduction with a focus on...
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This report from the organization Corner House explores the question “What’s the alternative to current energy systems?” in a context of a growing climate crisis and increasing uncertainty over the future of fossil fuels. In energy...
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The NGO network ECA Watch is mapping social movements’ alternative proposals to the large-scale infrastructure projects, including water, energy or transport infrastructure. The aim is to spread information and proposals, and to...
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A global study carried out by the Poverty and Environment Network has helped in understanding the role forests play in enhancing people’s livelihoods, confirming that forests do provide an important source of rural income, but...
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Around the world ‘development’ is robbing tribal people of their land, self-sufficiency and pride and leaving them with nothing. “There you go” is a short, satirical film, from Survival International, that tells the story of how...
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Only available in Spanish. The Alianza Biodiversidad, Friends of the Earth Latin America and the Caribbean (ATALC) and World Rainforest Movement (WRM) have jointly published a new special edition (in Spanish) of the magazine...
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The Observatory of Mining Conflicts in Latin America (OCMAL) and Latin American Observatory of Environmental Conflicts (OLCA) have developed the “Map of Mining Conflicts in Latin America” to serve as a database and information system...
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Against oil extraction in the Amazon forest in southern Ecuador:
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By Elder Andrade de Paula On the eve of another world conference on the environment – Rio+20 – which places emphasis on the climate crisis, we are witnessing major efforts by the centres of world power to promote a discussion with no...
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Declaration by the Latin American Network Against Monoculture Tree Plantations September 21, 2012 Industrial tree plantations have reportedly quadrupled in surface area over the last two decades worldwide. This expansion has been...
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Only available in Spanish – By Guadalupe Rodríguez, Salva la Selva. El acceso y abastecimiento de materias primas no energéticas, especialmente minerales metálicos y no metálicos, no ha recibido -al contrario que la cuestión...
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By José Heder Benatti. This paper is a preliminary legal reflection on the role of common property in the Brazilian Amazon. It suggests the integration of two distinct normative scopes of the society, the legal right and consuetudinary...
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Edited by Richard Jonasse, PhD. Institute for Food and Development Policy, 2009 Download as...
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Only available in Spanish – Por Pablo Cingolani – 21/Julio/2007 No a las mega represas de Lula en el río Madera El monstruo necesita alimentarse. El desarrollismo brasileño no se detiene. La burguesía exige más y más....
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Miguel A Altieri, Professor of Agroecology, University of California, Berkeley Elizabeth Bravo, Red por una América Latina Libre de Transgenicos, Quito, Ecuador The nations of the OECD—the Organization for Economic Cooperation and...
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Only available in Spanish Publicación de Censat-Agua Viva en ocasión de la Cumbre Mundial de Johannesburgo. Amazonía: Selva y Bosques diez años después de Río...
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Continuing with the communications for September 21st, this time we would like to share with all of you a collection of videos that we have prepared together with GRAIN, on the impacts of large scale industrial oil palm plantations. The...
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