Brazil

Articles from the WRM Bulletin

2021

• Organized land theft for industrial tree plantations in Brazil: The case of AMCEL

2020

• Indigenous peoples in Brazil fight against government policies… and the pandemic

• Development: Understandings from the Ground

• Deforestation in the Amazon, and the REDD+ Money that Keeps Coming to Brazil

• Brazil: Plantation Company Suzano Covers Up its Devastating Impacts with Claims of “Conservation”

• Brazil: Against Covid-19, Feminist Economics in the Countryside and the City

• “The National Interest”: Neofascism in the Amazon Rainforest

2019

• Women Stand Up to Fight the Suzano Paper Mill in Maranhão, Brazil

• Misguided funding: Green Climate Fund support for REDD+

• Infrastructure and Extraction: A Host of Deforestation

• Green discourses and deforestation

• Brazil: The Struggle of the Xinguara Peoples in the Amazon

• Brazil: Support Cacique Babau and his family

• Brazil: Hydro Alunorte’s Alumina Tailings Dam. A Disaster Foreshadowed

• (Swahili) Brazili: Mimi ni Kum’tum, Ninatokea Jamii ya Watu wa Akroá-Gamela

2018

• Women and plantations: When violence becomes invisible

• The Brazilian Energy Model and Violations of Women’s Rights

• The Amazon: A territory in the crossfire

• Peasant communities and those dependent on the forests united in struggle

• No to ProSavana Campaign: Peoples’ Declaration

• No to ProSAVANA and MATOPIBA. Solidarity with people in Mozambique and Brazil!

• How to Strengthen Resistance Movements?

• Envira REDD+ project in Acre, Brazil: Gold certificate from carbon certifiers for empty promises

• Certification promotes land concentration, violence and destruction

• Brazil: The cerrado and the city of Três Lagoas under the control of the paper industry

• Brazil: I am Kum’tum, I am of the Akroá-Gamela People

• Are FSC and RSPO accomplices in crime? Jari Florestal and Agropalma’s Unresolved Land Question in the Brazilian Amazon

• Agribusiness and environmental injustice: impacts on the health of rural women

2017

• Water and Pulp: The North’s Thirst and the South’s Resistance

• Genetically Engineered Trees: A technology that expands monoculture plantations

• Frankentrees: Genetically engineered tree plantations threaten forests and communities

• Food Production and Consumption: Resistance against domination

• Eucalyptus and silent poisons: The expansion of plantations in the southernmost part of Bahia, Brazil

• Dercy Teles on the popular movement of rubber tappers in Brazil

• Defending Indigenous Peoples in Voluntary Isolation in Brazil and Peru

• Brazil: Land occupation wins award for producing food free of agrochemicals while restoring the forest

• Brazil: Land for food production, not pulp for export

• Brazil, Mining and Biodiversity: From environmental degraders to environmental services providers: When the line between destroying and conserving is merely rhetorical

• Brazil and land rights: A historical struggle that continues and intensifies

• Amazonian and Andean women in the VIII Pan-Amazonian Forum

2016

• The Brazilian Biodiversity Law: Progress or Threat?

• Brazil: The monoculture eucalyptus company, Veracel Celulosa, is trying to evict indigenous Pataxó from their land

• “To enjoy full health, we want to make a difference”: A woman’s voice from the forests of Brazil

2015

• “Transgenics are not welcome”. Interview with André Hl Dallagnol of the Brazilian NGO Terra de Direitos (Land of Rights)

• Women peasants preventing GM trees release in Brazil!

• The Mundukuru peoples in Brazil: forestry concessions imposed on indigenous lands

• The Farce of “Smart Forestry”. The Cases of Green Resources in Mozambique and Suzano in Brazil

• Testimony of unsustainability: The experience of the International Articulation of those affected by Vale

• Brazil– mining company VALE promoting oil palm in Pará: Impacts of the “green economy”

• Brazil: Three indigenous leaders and forest defenders were murdered

• Brazil: The countless problems surrounding the Suzano corporation  

• Brazil: Stop eucalyptus monoculture plantations!

• Brazil: Forest Carbon Demonstration Project in the Tapajós-Arapiuns Extractive Reserve

• Brazil: a mining-induced ecological and social disaster – How much longer?

• Brazil approves commercial use of the first GM eucalyptus tree

• Brazil – Profiting more from doing the same: The financialization of Fibria’s eucalyptus monocultures

2014

• The forests not seen on picture post-cards: looking beyond the tropical belt

• Support the struggle of the Tupinambá in Bahia, Brazil for the demarcation of their lands and against militarization!

• Stop GE Trees campaign urged FSC to keep GE trees out!

• Protestors denounce pact to transform rural region of Brazil into a “eucalyptus desert”

• Plants designed for deconstruction? The use of wood cellulose for fuels

• Movement of People Affected by Dams in Brazil denounces violations, proposes solutions

• EU support for wood-based ‘bioenergy’ fuels forest destruction and land-grabbing

• December 3: International Day Against Pesticide Use

• Coastal forests threatened by tourism

• Changes in family life: Observations on eucalyptus and women in Mato Grosso do Sul

• Carta de Macapá de los pueblos libres de la Panamazonia

• Brazil: The struggle of the tupinamba indigenous people to protect their territory and the conservation of forests

• Brazil: Sexual exploitation of women and mega-dam construction in the Amazon

• Brazil: Federal Prosecutor’s Office upholds injunction barring BNDES financing for Fibria Celulose, a company certified by the FSC

• Brazil – Discourse of “innovation” contrasts with a reality of life in conditions akin to slavery for workers employed by one of Agropalma´s suppliers

• Anglo-American in Brazil: another case of public hearings legitimizing destructive corporate projects

• Amazon: Territorial disputes and conflicts

2013

• Unifying the struggle for the Amazon in Brazil

• Solidarity with the community of Cumbe, Ceará, Brazil against their criminalization

• REDD – Brazil: Open letter from Acre challenges legitimacy of REDD+ “consultation” in California

• Peru and Brazil: Matsés indigenous peoples against oil industry activity

• MST protests against transnationals: Mining company Vale and pulp and paper company Fibria

• BRICS, development and land grabbing

• Brazilian Amazon: Military incursion in the territory of the Munduruku people for construction of mega dam

• Brazil: Voices of local communities in Acre denounce violations in Community-based Sustainable Forest Management

• Brazil: Unlimited strike in Veracel

• Brazil: Threat of monoculture eucalyptus plantation expansion in the Northeast

• Brazil: The struggle to defend our fishing territory

• Brazil: The double role of Norway in conserving and destroying the Amazon

• Brazil: State government incentives for the expansion of industrial tree plantations in the state of Rio de Janeiro

• Brazil: Purchase of land held under false title as part of land grabbing for the expansion of pulp plantations

• Brazil: Isolated indigenous peoples continue to face threats

• Brazil: Industrial eucalyptus plantations in southwest Bahia – conflicts and confrontations

• Brazil: First National Meeting of the Peasant Women’s Movement

• Brazil: Community management of the forests and Cerrado in defence of territories and food sovereignty

2012

• Support the struggle against the Belo Monte dam, a struggle that has not ended

• No to the expansion of Veracel Celulose S.A. in Brazil!

• Land grabbing and its consequences: The case of Brazil

• Green Economics in Brazil: Women talk about the impact of the SPVS REDD project and a Boticário Foundation protected area

• Genetically engineered eucalyptus plantations: And then there were four…

• Disputed territory: new video on the green economy versus community-based economies in southern Brazil

• Brazil: The fast expansion of oil palm in the Amazon region

• Brazil: The definition of forest – another front for resistance and reconquest

• Brazil: Support the Indigenous Cause of the Guaraní-Kaiowa

• Brazil: Mundukuru indigenous people cancel REDD project

• Brazil: Indigenous Group Blocks VALE Railway

• Brazil: Eucalyptus and the growing precarity of work in Mato Grosso do Sul

• Brazil: Continued destruction of forests and biodiversity in the state of Acre, considered a model of the “Green Economy” in the Brazilian Amazon

• Brazil: Belo Monte, an illegal and immoral hydroelectric dam project that violates numerous rights

• Brazil: 30 people intoxicated by pesticides sprayed from plane on eucalyptus plantations

2011

• The new trend of biomass plantations in Brazil: tree monocultures

• Terminator technology in agricultural crops and GEtrees: A threat to food sovereignty

• FSC and Veracel Celulose: Certification that is neither reliable nor independent

• Forest carbon project in Paraná, Brazil: Reduction of deforestation and persecution of local communities

• Disaster foretold for the extreme south, south and southwest of the state of Bahia

• Brazil: Women in Camp Sister Dorothy Stang – for their right to life, against monoculture eucalyptus

• Brazil: The case of Plantar – the FSC at the service of the sale of carbon credits

• Brazil: OAS calls for suspension of Belo Monte dam construction

• Brazil: Mato Grosso do Sul – The new eucalyptus frontier

• Brazil: Environmentalists murdered in the Amazon and debate over a new Forest Code: Impunity must end!

• Brazil: Discrimination and violence against women in the construction of hydroelectric dams

• Brazil: Belo Monte dam would turn the Xingú River into a river of blood

• Brazil – Behind the Greenwashing: The commodification of forests and impacts on local communities in the state of Acre

• Belo Monte dam site occupied!

• Actions against dams around the world

2010

• Brazil: Women affected by dams – changes in their lifestyles

• Brazil: The “productive resistance” of Quilombola (1) communities surrounded by eucalyptus plantations

• Brazil: The negative impacts of monoculture eucalyptus plantations has lead to suspending them in various localities in the State of Sao Paulo

• Brazil: Once again opposing Plantar’s CDM project

• Brazil: Juma REDD test case in the Amazon

• Brazil: For whom and why do women struggle?

• Brazil: Follow-up on the Juma REDD project in the Amazon

• Brazil: Communities hit by monoculture eucalyptus plantations exchange experiences in Minas Gerais

• Brazil: Aracruz sows violence and destruction in Espirito Santo

• Brazil: Sustainable on paper – the eucalyptus plantations of Bahia

• Brasil: Outrage over killing of local man by Fibria Celulose’s guards

• Brasil: Modificações do Código Florestal para benefício dos latifundiário

• Brasil: Comunidades quilombolas reconvertem eucaliptales

• Amazon Basin: IIRSA opens the way for rainforest invasion

2009

• Video: Women raise their voices against tree plantations

• Plantations, poverty and power: Europe’s role in the expansion of the pulp industry in the South

• FSC’s greenwashing of tree monocultures: Evidence provided by the Brazilian Pulp and Paper Industry itself

• Brazil: Women impacted by eucalyptus plantations speak out

• Brazil: Veracel plantations, certified land seizure

• Brazil: Plantar’s ‘new’ eucalyptus projects advance towards CDM validation

• Brazil: On Women’s day, peasant women struggle against tree plantations

• Brazil: Occupation of Veracel’s tree plantations calls upon land reform

• Brazil: New legislation allows agribusiness to advance in the Amazon

• Brazil: FSC greenwashing of eucalyptus plantations is strongly questioned and a warning made vis-à-vis their advance in Piaui

• Brazil: A private sector rationale in forestry training at Viçosa Federal University

• Arborgen Seeks to Legalize GE Eucalyptus Trees in U.S. -Brazil is Not Far Behind

2008

• The Brazil of Stora Enso: Violence against women and made-to-measure legislation

• Peru/Brazil: The right to self-determination of indigenous peoples living in voluntary isolation

• Brazil: The pulp and paper companies’ “green international quality standard labels”

• Brazil: Sugarcane for agrofuel poses a growing threat to highly biodiverse ecosystem

• Brazil: Historic federal court decision sentences Veracel Celulose (Stora Enso-Aracruz) for environmental violations

• Brazil: Fisher-folk affected by Aracruz Celulose close the company’s private port

• Brazil: Amazon deforestation takes on new force

• Brazil: Agribusiness, deforestation and climate change

• Brazil and Chile: Concern over research on transgenic trees

2007

• Pulp giants wipe out peoples, culture and the environment in Southern Brazil

• Brazil: Tree monoculture promotion mechanisms and opposition

• Brazil: Social organizations in Bahia demand a moratorium on eucalyptus plantations

2002

• Brazil: While the people are roused to indignation, Aracruz celebrates

• Brazil: The least publicised yet most endangered Atlantic Forest

• Brazil: Stopped in Espirito Santo, Aracruz wants to plant eucalyptus in Rio de Janeiro

• Brazil: Research questions FSC certification of two plantations

• Brazil: Local peoples defend biodiversity in Espirito Santo

• Brazil: Indigenous peoples restart their struggle against dams on the Xingu river

• Brazil: Community-Based Forest Management in the Brazilian Amazon

• Brazil: Aracruz Celulose is now facing problems in two states

• Brazil: Aggravated deforestation rates in Amazonian forests

2001

• Brazil: Whose sovereignty?

• Brazil: The rights of Aracruz and the rights of the people

• Brazil: The option between family-based agriculture and giant Aracruz Celulose

• Brazil: Political confrontation in Espirito Santo over eucalyptus plantations

• Brazil: Mahogany loggers destroying the Amazon forest

• Brazil: Interamerican Development Bank promotes destruction of Upper Tocantins River

• Brazil: Eucalyptus plantations banned in Espirito Santo!

• Brazil: Challenging Aracruz Celulose’s power

• Brazil: Another legal battle to save the forests

• “Forward, Brazil” . . . towards further destruction of the Amazon

2000

• The plantation issue in the OED report

• Brazil: Will there be justice for the Pataxó-Hã-Hã-Hãe?

• Brazil: Two approaches to a new Forestry Law

• Brazil: the struggle of the Pataxó-Hã-Hã-Hãe

• Brazil: The struggle of the Pataxó indigenous peoples in Bahia

• Brazil: The short memory of Veracel and the power of Aracruz

• Brazil: the same as 500 years ago?

• Brazil: The marriage of Stora Enso and Aracruz

• Brazil: joint government agency-Greenpeace action in the Amazon

• Brazil: Historic victory to save the forests

• Brazil: Forests in the balance: Challenges of conservation and development

• Brazil: Dump your carbon garbage with us please!

• Brazil: Aracruz caught red handed destroying native forests

• Aracruz: Indigenous peoples refuse to plant eucalyptus

1999

• Logging, landlessness and fires in the Brazilian Amazon

• Environmental crime linked to Peugeot in Brazil

• Brazil: will forest destruction be sponsored by the law?

• Brazil: violence against Amazonian indigenous people

• Brazil: The power of Aracruz Celulose

• Brazil: Support for Extractive Reserve on islands of Tucuruí Dam reservoir

• Brazil: say what they say, Monte Pascoal belongs to the Pataxó

• Brazil: Pataxo recover traditional lands

• Brazil: Monte Pascoal National Park belongs to the Pataxo

• Brazil: FSC certification of Aracruz suspended

• Brazil: concern over new President of FUNAI

• Aracruz: the naked emperor

1998

• The two faces of the Brazilian policy on forests

• The Roraima Amazon forest fire in Brazil

• Roraima fires: more than meets the eye

• Good news from Brazil

• Brazilian forestry policy is not trustworthy

• Brazil: “We want orchards, not eucalyptus plantations”

• Brazil: the paradigmatic case of Aracruz

• Brazil: Tension and uncertainty in Espirito Santo

• Brazil: response to article published in ‘Aracruz News’

• Brazil: NGOs oppose WWF-World Bank’s 10% Campaign

• Aracruz: trade union requests information

• Aracruz: some polite suggestions from a forester

• Acknowledgement from Brazil

1997

• The pulp and paper industry faces problems in the Amazon

• Malaysians in South Africa, South Africans in Brazil

• Fires in the Amazon too

• Brazil: violence against ecologists continues

• Brazil: Tupinikim and Guarani indigenous peoples vs Aracruz Cellulose

• Brazil: the Tupinikim/Guarani struggle continues

• Brazil: New development projects threaten the Amazon

• Brazil: accusation of biopiracy

• Asian companies invade the Amazon

• Aracruz: Tupinikim and Guarani demands close to a decision.

Books and Briefings

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  Offsets in the forests

  Posted on October 30, 2019

  A logic that violates indigenous and traditional peoples’ rights while facilitating further deforestation. A compilation of articles from the World Rainforest Movement Bulletin (WRM). October 2019

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  Árvores transgênicas e plantações de monoculturas de árvores: Conflitos, ameaças e lutas de resistência no Brasil

  Posted on September 30, 2019

  Only available in Portuguese.

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  “Mainstreaming biodiversity” in extractive industries: Concealing devastation and land grabbing

  Posted on November 16, 2018

  A compilation of articles from the World Rainforest Movement Bulletin on the occasion of the 14th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), to be held 17 – 29 November, in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt.

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  Halting deforestation? REDD+ and the protection of the fossil fuel and conservation industry

  Posted on September 12, 2018

  A compilation of articles from the World Rainforest Movement Bulletin on the occasion of the Global Climate Action Summit to be held 12-14 September, in California, United States

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  Aviation and false solutions: The farce of the “Florestal Santa Maria” REDD project in Mato Grosso, Brazil

  Posted on June 14, 2018

  The FSM-REDD project has sold carbon credits to offset programs for at least two airline companies. Yet behind this is an increase in deforestation in the region, a history of land grabbing, the use of certifications that no longer exist and unfulfilled promises to local communities.

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  REDD: A Collection of Conflicts, Contradictions and Lies

  Posted on December 3, 2014

  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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  Observations on a private REDD project in the state of Acre, Brazil

  Posted on November 27, 2013

  Study conducted by the Centro de Memória das Lutas e Movimentos Sociais da Amazônia. Document published in “Leyes, políticas y economía verde al servicio del despojo de los pueblos” (Laws, policies and green economy at the...

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  The Monte Pascoal‐Pau Brasil ecological corridor carbon, community and biodiversity initiative: another carbon offset failure

  Posted on November 17, 2013

  by Jutta Kill, World Rainforest Movement. Document published in “Leyes, políticas y economía verde al servicio del despojo de los pueblos” (Laws, policies and green economy at the expense of communities dispossession)...

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  Eucalyptus Plantations for Energy: A Case Study of Suzano’s plantations for wood pellet exports in the Baixo Parnaíba region, Maranhão, Brazil

  Posted on November 7, 2013

  Also available in Portuguese. This is the first documented case of a land-grab in Brazil for biomass destined for power stations in the UK.  The authors of the Brazilian case study are Ivonete Gonçalves de Souza (CEPEDES) and Winfridus...

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  FSC consultation and complaints procedures: the case of Veracel Celulose in Brazil

  Posted on September 29, 2013

  For many years WRM has been denouncing the FSC certification of monoculture tree plantations. The scale of these monocultures is one of several reasons for such opposition. Large-scale tree plantations occupy vast areas of land leading to...

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  An overview of industrial tree plantations in the global South: conflicts, trends, and resistance struggles.

  Posted on June 11, 2012

  After many years of supporting local struggles and disseminating information from different countries on tree monocultures and its impacts, WRM presents a new report to all those involved in these struggle (1). No better time than the...

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  Plantations, poverty and power: Europe’s role in the expansion of the pulp industry in the South

  Posted on December 18, 2008

  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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  Women and Eucalyptus. Stories of Life and Resistance

  Posted on November 22, 2007

  Impacts of Eucalyptus Monocultures on Indigenous and Afrobrazilian Women in the State of Espírito Santo. By Gilsa Barcellos and Simone Ferreira Women and Eucalyptus. Stories of Life and Resistance Also available in Portuguese Mulheres...

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  Promises of Jobs and Destruction of Work. The case of Aracruz Celulose in Brazil

  Posted on May 18, 2005

  Edited by The Network Alert against the Green Desert and the WRM By: Alacir De’Nadai, Winfridus Overbeek, Luiz Alberto Soares. Promises of Jobs and Destruction of Work. The case of Aracruz Celulose in...

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  Certifying the Uncertifiable. FSC Certification of Tree Plantations in Thailand and Brazil

  Posted on August 8, 2003

  By the World Rainforest Movement Concern over the spread of tree monocultures and their certification is at the centre of this book. However, this concern is merely one part of much broader concerns concerning forests, forest peoples’...

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News

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  Declaration: The Mumbai – Porto Alegre Forest Initiative

  Posted on February 1, 2005

  Background A number of participants at the World Social Forum 2004 met in Mumbai and believing that forest issues are in essence social and political and that forest communities are increasingly affected by globalization –and new...

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Other Relevant Information

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  Open Letter to HSBC about Suzano in Brazil

  Posted on October 6, 2020

  This Open Letter is a public reply from the Alert against the Green Desert Network from Brazil and WRM to an email from the investment department of the HSBC bank in the USA, requesting more information regarding the Suzano paper and pulp corporation in Brazil.

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  Audio: Impacts of Covid-19 on Forest Dependant Peoples

  Posted on August 6, 2020

  Here we share some fragments of a conversation between the journalist Margaret Prescod, from the Sojourner Truth radio show on KPFK Radio, and Winnie Overbeek, WRM coordinator, on July 9th 2020. They talk about the devastaiting impacts of...

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  The Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST) plant 1,000 trees in an encampment in Paraná, Brazil

  Posted on May 13, 2020

  500 native trees and 500 fruit trees were planted at the Maila Sabrina camp, during the closing of the Training Course for Pedagogical Collectives of the Schools of the Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST) in Paraná. The action is part...

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  Four Years Later: International Condemnation of Brazil for Tailings Dam Break

  Posted on November 25, 2019

  Four years after the collapse of Samarco’s tailings dam in Mariana, organizations and movements presented a case before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. The objective is to condemn the Brazilian State for human rights violations...

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  “We should conserve forests in the first place for the people who depend on the forests”

  Posted on August 29, 2019

  An inteview with Winnie Overbeek, the International Coodinator of the WRM, about the causes and the impacts of the deforestation in the Amazon.

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  “Burning the Amazon is a crime against humanity”, Via Campesina Brazil

  Posted on August 27, 2019

  It should be clear for society that this is not an isolated phenomenon. In fact, it is the result of a series of actions taken by agribusinesses and big miners.

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  The Amazon: Roads and Highways are Hubs of Deforestation

  Posted on July 15, 2019

  The study, “Amazonía en la encrucijada” (“The Amazon at the Crossroads”), by the Amazon Geo-Referenced Socio-Environmental Information Network (RAISG, by its Portuguese acronym) presents an overview of the pressure caused by roads...

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  Brazil: Letter of the Indigenous Peoples to the governments of Germany and California

  Posted on May 15, 2019

  Chiefs and leaders of indigenous peoples in Acre published a letter addressed to the governments of Germany and California, reporting that millionaire funds are coming to the state of Acre for REDD and PES payments, without transparency and benefiting few indigenous people.

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  Brazil: Support Cacique Babau and his family

  Posted on March 11, 2019

  Cacique Babau, from Serra do Padeiro Tupinambá community, state of Bahia, has been suffering repeated threats against him and his family. Faced with this worrying situation, people and social organizations, through a letter to Governor...

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  Support Cacique Babau and his family

  Posted on February 21, 2019

  Cacique Babau, from Serra do Padeiro Tupinambá community (Brazil), has been suffering repeated threats. People and social organizations, through a letter to the Governor, demand that the state guarantee his safety. We urge you to sign-on the letter in solidarity.

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  Support this declaration! Chico Mendes in the Standoff Against the False Solutions of Green Capitalism*

  Posted on December 22, 2018

  The declaration is open for sign-on in solidarity until 31 January 2019.

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  Chico Mendes, 30 anos depois

  Posted on December 11, 2018

  (Only available in Portuguese) Os povos das florestas convidam a Marcha em Xapuri: Com Chico Mendes no empate contra o capitalismo verde. 14 de dezembro, 17 h, Xapuri, Acre, Brasil.

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  REDD Early Movers (REM) in Acre, Brazil

  Posted on July 25, 2018

  (Available only in Portuguese and German)

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  Declaration from Sena Madureira, Brazil: “We carry forward the spirit of union among peoples, and opposition to capitalism’s “solutions”

  Posted on July 9, 2018

  From June 15-17, 2018, indigenous peoples and communities that live and work in forests gathered in Sena Madureira, Acre, to denounce the false solutions to environmental and climatic degradation that green capitalism proposes. They...

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  Brazil: Sena Madureira Declaration, June 17, 2018

  Posted on June 26, 2018

  People from the forests gathered in Sena Madureira, Acre, to denounce the false solutions of green capitalism and demand their right to their lands.

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  The dangers of transgenic trees

  Posted on May 24, 2018

  Transgenic Trees Will Expand the Disaster of Tree Plantations. Already in Chile monoculture plantations of pine and eucalyptus are producing terrible impacts on rural communities, on people’s health, access to water, agriculture and forests.

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  Finnish activists protest against Stora Enso and Veracel

  Posted on April 29, 2018

  Finnish activists protest against Stora Enso and Veracel In March 2018, activists from Friends of the Earth Finland and an association supporting landless peoples around the globe (Maattomien ystävät ry – in Finnish) organized a...

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  Motion of rejection and solidarity with local leaders facing threats in Acre – Brazil

  Posted on August 4, 2017

  Press Release   More than 80 organizations and individuals from all over the world sent today the letter enclosed below to relevant authorities in Brazil, Germany and California / USA rejecting “any and all attempts to intimidate...

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  Xapuri Declaration, May 28, 2017

  Posted on June 14, 2017

  We, forest dwellers, rubber tappers, Apurinã, Huni Kui, Jaminawa, Manchineri and Shawadawa indigenous people, members of supportive organizations and the Jesuit Travelling Team, teachers from different universities, united in the city of...

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  Violence broke out in the fields and forests of Brazil

  Posted on May 9, 2016

  The Pastoral Land Commission (CPT) of Brazil released its Notebook on Field Conflicts 2015 last April 15. The research data reveal a terrible reality. Last year there were 50 murders. And impunity reigns. Worsening the situation: 59...

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  Manifesto sent to Brazilian authorities for the immediate release of Chief Babau and Teity Tupinambá

  Posted on April 22, 2016

  Please, click here to sign-on: https://secure.avaaz.org/po/petition/cepedescepedesorgbr_ Liberdade_para_o_Cacique_Babau_e_seu_irmao_Jose_Aelson/ We inform that on April 11, the arbitrary imprisonment of Cacique Babau and his brother...

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  The new legal framework on biodiversity and the commodification of nature in Brazil

  Posted on March 21, 2016

  The December 2015 Raíces newsletter focuses on the problems arising around approval and regulation of the Legal Framework on Biodiversity, and the impacts of this new law. In this recent rush to privatize nature and traditional knowledge,...

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  Public Statement of the WRM to the California Air Resources Board

  Posted on November 16, 2015

  Subject: The proposal of the California government to include REDD+ offset credits from the state of Acre, Brazil, and from other states and countries with tropical forests. Montevideo, November 16, 2015 We learned that the California...

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  Brazil: Quilombola communities’ planting method preserves vegetation and soil nutrients

  Posted on November 10, 2015

  In the middle of the biggest continuous area of Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, southwest of Sao Paulo, researchers of the University of Sao Paulo and the State University of Campinas accompany the changes in the region’s quilombola...

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  Forest peoples and territories: Rights Violations in Acre, Brazil

  Posted on October 15, 2015

  In 2013, the Rapporteur on human rights to the environment (RDHMA, for its Portuguese acronym), from the DhESCA Platform, conducted a Research and Advocacy Mission in the state of Acre on the green economy problematic and its political and...

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  Genetically engineered eucalyptus trees approved in Brazil. How long before we see GE tree monocultures in REDD?

  Posted on August 10, 2015

  Last April, the commercial use of GE eucalyptus trees was approved in Brazil, despite the strong local resistance and evidence of GE eucalyptus trees intensifying industrial plantations’ impacts. This is the first approval of GE trees in...

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  What are cars made of? From the Brazilian Amazon to the German automakers

  Posted on July 10, 2015

  A recently released documentary exposing the world’s largest iron ore mining project shows the life of the communities impacted by the “Programa Grande Carajás” (Great Carajás Programme), located in the Brazilian states of...

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  New publication warns against the impacts of agrotoxics on health

  Posted on June 3, 2015

  People may be exposed to excessive levels of agrotoxics at work and through food, soil, water or air. Through the pollution of groundwater, lakes, rivers and other bodies of water, agrotoxics can pollute drinking water supplies, fish and...

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  GMO Trees Approved in Brazil: Common Sense & Precaution Ignored

  Posted on April 9, 2015

    Decision made in violation of national law and international protocols Montevideo, UY and New York, NY (9 April 2015)–The Brazilian Technical Commission on Biosafety (CTNBio) met today where they formally approved an industry...

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  Ideas for the political thought of La Via Campesina in the Amazon

  Posted on March 6, 2015

  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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  Actions Globally Call on Brazil to Reject GMO Trees

  Posted on March 4, 2015

  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE New York (4 March 2015) – Organizations on four continents took action yesterday at Brazilian consulates and embassies as part of the Emergency Global Day of Action to STOP Genetically Engineered Trees. The groups...

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  URGENT: GE Eucalyptus to be approved in Brazil

  Posted on February 27, 2015

  Dear friends, As many of you will remember, last year we organized – together with various partner organizations in Brazil – a campaign urging the Brazilian National Technical Biosafety Commission (CTNBio) to turn down the request for...

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  Jornal Porantim – CIMI Bulletin Special Edition on Financialization of Nature

  Posted on December 8, 2014

  Only available in Portuguese. A financeirização da natureza significa o aprofundamento radical do capitalismo e, ao mesmo tempo, configura-se como um neocolonialismo. Os povos indígenas e as comunidades tradicionais são os principais...

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  The green economy, forest peoples and territories: rights violations in the state of Acre

  Posted on December 8, 2014

  Fact-finding and advocacy mission preliminary report, by Cristiane Faustino y Fabrina Furtado Download the preliminary report as pdf...

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  Fordern Sie Aufklärung der Gewalt gegen CIMI, eine der wichtigsten Unterstützergruppen von Indigenen Völkern in Acre, Brasilien. Acre ist Empfänger von ‘REDD Early Movers’ Geldern

  Posted on October 17, 2014

      Herrn Minister Gerd Müller  Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (BMZ)   Stresemannstraße 94 10963 Berlin Frau Ministerin Dr. Barbara Hendricks Bundesministerium für Umwelt,...

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  Appeal to denounce violence against CIMI, the indigenous peoples’ support group in Acre, Brazil. Acre is the primary recipient of REDD Early Movers funding

  Posted on October 17, 2014

  Also available in Deutch Minister Dr. Gerd Müller  Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (BMZ)   Stresemannstraße 94 10963 Berlin Minister Dr. Barbara Hendricks Bundesministerium für Umwelt,...

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  Carta À Secretaria de Segurança Pública do estado do Acre

  Posted on September 30, 2014

  Only available in Portuguese. Download the full letter as pdf Montevideo, 30 de setembro de 2014 À Secretaria de Segurança Pública do estado do Acre A/C  Sr. Ildor Reni Graebner Avenida Getulio Vargas, nº. 232 – Subsolo do Palácio...

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  Brazil: organizations issued a letter opposing commercial use of transgenic eucalyptus by Suzano, but could only do so after the public hearing

  Posted on September 26, 2014

  On September 4 a public hearing in Brasilia considered the application of FuturaGene, owned by the Suzano pulp and paper company, to grow and commercialize the country’s first transgenic eucalyptus trees. Brazilian organizations,...

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  Open Letter to the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) from the Campaign to STOP Genetically Engineered Trees

  Posted on September 7, 2014

  The Campaign to STOP Genetically Engineered Trees (CSGET) Urges FSC to Disassociate from Suzano/FuturaGene In the next few days, Brazil’s biosafety commission will be considering petitions from forestry company Suzano, owner of...

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  Groups globally mobilize to stop commercial release of genetically engineered eucalyptus trees in Brazil and US

  Posted on August 20, 2014

  For Immediate Release, 20 August 2014 New York – Two unprecedented applications are pending that, if approved, would allow the commercial sale of millions of genetically engineered (GE) eucalyptus trees for development into vast...

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  Will FSC dissociate from Suzano?

  Posted on July 4, 2014

  FSC Watch . In July 2010, Suzano Pulp and Paper bought the biotechnology company FuturaGene, which for the past 8 years has been carrying out field trials of genetically engineered eucalyptus. In January 2014, FuturaGene applied to...

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  Campaign to STOP GE Trees – Sign On to Support the call by Brazilian and Latin American groups to reject G.E. eucalyptus trees

  Posted on June 2, 2014

  (Sign on before 15 June!) Dear friends, FuturaGene, a biotechnology firm owned by Brazilian pulp and paper company Suzano, has requested authorization from the Brazilian Biosafety Commission (CTNBio) for the commercial release of its...

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  REDD+ and the Underlying Causes of Deforestation and forest Degradation

  Posted on November 13, 2013

  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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  Moção pública de apoio à demarcação das terras indígenas no Acre

  Posted on October 30, 2013

  Only available in Portuguese. -Ao  Ministério da Justiça Exmo. Sr. José Eduardo Cardoso, Ministro da Justiça – À Diretoria de Proteção Territorial da FUNAI Sr. Aluísio Ladeira Azanha – Diretor (dpt@funai.gov.br) –...

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  Povos Indígenas Isolados e de Recente Contato no Brasil – Políticas, direitos e problemáticas

  Posted on September 25, 2013

  Only available in Portuguese. By Antenor Vaz. Este documento foi elaborado a partir de uma solicitação do Comitê Indígena Internacional para a Proteção dos Povos em Isolamento e Contato Inicial da Amazônia, Gran Chaco e Região...

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  Lettre à l’Institut national de la colonisation et de la réforme agraire, et à l’Institut de la colonisation et du territoire de l’État de Maranhão (Brésil), pour exiger la reconnaissance et la régularisation de la situation foncière des territoires traditionnellement occupés

  Posted on September 24, 2013

   La action  provient de nos amis brésiliens de la région du Baixo Parnaíba, État de Maranhão. Ils nous demandent d’adhérer à une lettre qu’ils enverront à l’Institut national de la colonisation et de la réforme agraire...

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  Letter to the National Institute for Colonization and Agrarian Reform and the Colonization and Land Institute of the State of Maranhão (Brazil) to demand the recognition and land tenure regularization of traditionally occupied territories

  Posted on September 20, 2013

  This action is being undertaken by our friends in Brazil, in the Bajo Parnaíbo region of the state of Maranhão. They have asked for our help to gather signatures for a letter that will be sent to the National Institute for Colonization...

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  Día Nacional do Cerrado – Actividad en Brasil

  Posted on September 11, 2013

  Only available in Portuguese –  11 de setembro – Dia Nacional do Cerrado. Movimento Geraizeiro apresenta suas reivindicações aos governos federal, estadual e municipais Neste momento centenas de famílias de Geraizeiros rumam...

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  Brazil – WRM information sheet on GE tree research

  Posted on July 17, 2013

   WRM information sheets on GE tree research First posted: 1 August 2008 Last update: August 2014 Tree species being manipulated: eucalyptus Aim of genetic manipulation (1,2) faster growth influencing the quality of the timber, like...

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  The Dark Side of the Green – VIDEO

  Posted on March 30, 2013

  A movie of An BACCAERT, Nico MUÑOZ and Cristiano NAVARRO (Directors) Production of Directors – 2011 32 ‘ In the south region of Mato Grosso do Sul, in the border of Brazil and Paraguay, the most populous indigenous nation of...

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  How REDD and environmental services threaten the Lives of Forest People in Acre

  Posted on December 14, 2012

  By Sindicato dos Trabalhadores Rurais de Xapuri – Federação do Povo Huni Kui do Acre. What are the real problems of forest peoples in Acre? Why aren’t REDD and environmental services a solution to these problems? What concerns forest...

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  Green Economy in Brazil, the privatization of the Atlantic Forest: impacts from REDD projects and nature reserves on women and men in traditional communities

  Posted on November 25, 2012

  by Winfridus Overbeek The forest known as the Mata Atlantica (Atlantic Forest) in Brazil is one of the richest biomes in the planet in terms of biodiversity. It used to cover most of the coast of the country. But the process of brutal...

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  Brazil: Documentary film exposes FSC plantations as “Sustainable on Paper” only

  Posted on October 30, 2012

    “Sustainable on Paper”, a documentary film by journalists An-Katrien Lecluyse and Leopold Broers released in Belgium in 2011, is now available on the internet. The film broadly denounces the FSC certification of plantations...

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  The two faces of tropical forest destruction in Latin America and the Caribbean: Revelations of the “green economy” in Acre, Brazil

  Posted on October 25, 2012

  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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  Law on Payment for Environmental Services in Acre benefits the financial market

  Posted on August 30, 2012

  An article that analyzes the law passed in the Brazilian state of Acre in 2010 to create the State System of Incentives for Environmental Services (SISA). The law is considered a model and example for the world; however, it ultimately...

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  REDD e Povos Indígenas – VIDEO

  Posted on October 7, 2011

  Only available in Portuguese – Depoimento (audiovisual) de José Luiz Kassupá sobre os impactos do mecanismo REDD na vida dos Povos Indígenas, durante a oficina “Serviços ambientais, fundos verdes e REDD: Salvação da...

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  REDD e Cidades – VIDEO

  Posted on October 7, 2011

  Only available in Portuguese Depoimento de Sandra Lineia de Caritas Manaus (AM), sobre a relação entre o mecanismo REDD e a migração de populações tradicionais e rurais para as Cidades, durante oficina “Serviços Ambientais,...

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  Letter from the State of Acre – In defence of life and the integrity of the peoples and their territories against REDD and the commodification of nature

  Posted on October 7, 2011

  We gathered in Rio Branco, in the State of Acre, on 3-7 October 2011 for the workshop “Serviços Ambientais, REDD e Fundos Verdes do BNDES: Salvação da Amazônia ou Armadilha do Capitalismo Verde?” (Environmental Services, REDD and...

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  Request for the cancellation of the licensing process for the expansion of Veracel Celulose

  Posted on September 10, 2011

  Dear friends, We would like to invite you to support the following action, which is being launched as part of the activities for the International Day Against Monoculture Tree Plantations. This action is being coordinated by our friends...

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  “Plantações não são Florestas!” – Letter to the World Bank

  Posted on September 10, 2011

  Brazil, September 2011, various organizations. Only available in Portuguese – Read the letter...

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  The Carbon Hunters: On the trail of the climate’s hottest commodity

  Posted on February 20, 2011

  Video – In a remote corner of Brazil’s Atlantic coast, they say time is a fiction. This ancient forest is seemingly unspoiled by modern life — beyond the reach of men, machines, and markets. But a closer look reveals...

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  The Common Property and the Community Forest Management in the Brazilian Amazon Forest

  Posted on July 3, 2010

  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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  Um alerta sobre o Fomento Florestal: experiências…e alternativas

  Posted on January 22, 2009

  (Only available in Portuguese) By Winfridus Overbeek. Movimento dos Pequenos Agricultores (MPA) do estado do Espírito Santo, with the support of the WRM Um alerta sobre o Fomento Florestal: experiências…e...

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  Red Latinoamericana solicita al gobierno de Brasil y de Chile que suspenda investigación sobre árboles transgénicos

  Posted on January 16, 2008

  Only available Spanish and Portuguese.  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...

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  Carta de la RECOMA al gobierno de Brasil

  Posted on January 15, 2008

  Only available in Spanish –  15 de enero de 2008 Exmo. Sr. Luíz Inácio Lula da Silva Presidente da República Federativa do Brasil Exma. Sra. Marina Silva Ministra de Meio Ambiente (MMA) Sra. Maria Cecilia Wey de Brito Secretaria...

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  The Dark Side of Agrofuels: Horror in the “Brazilian California”

  Posted on July 23, 2007

  By Raúl Zibechi. Source: Programa de las Américas – www.ircamericas.org Brazil is staking its claim as a great emerging power thanks to the leadership it maintains in biofuel production. The price of this ambition is paid by the...

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  Se viene la mayor batalla de la historia en defensa de la Amazonía boliviana

  Posted on July 21, 2007

  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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  Estados Unidos y Brasil: La nueva alianza etanol

  Posted on March 5, 2007

  Only available in Spanish –  Por Raúl Zibechi Desde que el proyecto del ALCA fracasó en la Cumbre de Mar del Plata, en noviembre de 2005, el viaje de George W. Bush a Brasil y Uruguay, como parte de una gira que lo lleva también...

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  Brazil – Letter for the de-certification of Suzano – Bahia Sul, Plantar and V&M

  Posted on September 1, 2006

  We, the undersigned entities and individuals of the Alert Against the Green Desert Network, wish to express our concern about the history and awardees of the FSC certifications in Brazil, thus legitimating large scale tree monocultures,...

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  Open Letter to FSC, Aracruz Celulose and Imaflora/Smartwood

  Posted on June 8, 2006

  By the Alert Against The Green Desert Movement/Brazil The harshness of capital against life but Aracruz Celulose lost the FSC-certificate! On June 1st 2006, the Seminar on “The Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the Advance of...

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  Documento para o Grupo Internacional de Revisão dos Princípios e Critérios do FSC para plantações de árvores

  Posted on April 14, 2006

  Only available in Portuguese – Introdução O FSC-Brasil tomou a iniciativa para organizar um encontro em Belo Horizonte no dia 18 de outubro de 2005 com o objetivo de coletar contribuições para o processo global de revisão dos...

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  Amazonía: Selva y Bosques diez años después de Río

  Posted on July 18, 2002

  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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  Status of Implementation of Forest-Related Clauses in the CBD: An Independent Review & Recommendations for Action

  Posted on March 18, 2002

  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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  Impacts of monoculture tree plantations

  Posted on September 27, 2019

  Testimonies from the meeting “Threats and Impacts of Genetically Engineered Trees (GE-trees) Monoculture”, that took place in Porto Alegre, Brazil, in April 2019.

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  What are GE-trees?

  Posted on September 27, 2019

  Anne Petermann, coordinator of the global Stop GE-Trees Campaign, explains what Genetically Engineered trees are, the risks, uncertainties and context.

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  Plantations Are Not Forests – Testimonies from Acre, Brazil

  Posted on September 27, 2019

  Dercy Teles, from the rubber tapper movement, and Lindomar Padilha, from Conselho Indigenista Missionário (CIMI) – Acre, explain why monoculture tree plantations are not forests.

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  Video: Testimonies of Resistance – 21 September

  Posted on September 17, 2019

  Three testimonies of resistance from Brasil, 2019.

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  Brazil: Indigenous Peoples from Acre declare their rejection of REDD policies and their support to CIMI

  Posted on October 3, 2017

  Indigenous Peoples from Acre in Brazil declare their rejection of REDD policies and their support for the work carried out by the Indigenous Missionary Council (CIMI). Feijó, State of Acre, Brazil, September 28th, 2017. LETTER OF...

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  Disputed Territory. The green economy versus community-based economies

  Posted on December 11, 2012

  Produced by the World Rainforest Movement Interviews: Winnie Overbeek Camera and Edition: Flavio Pazos. A story of the peoples of the Atlantic Forest in southern Brazil. In Brazil, the Atlantic Forest, which covered the country’s...

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  Women raise their voices against tree plantations. Testimonies from Brazil, Nigeria and Papua New Guinea

  Posted on March 11, 2009

  By the World Rainforest Movement and Forest and Biodiversity Program of Friends of the Earth International Screenplay: Flavio Pazos Script: WRM International Secretariat Team Voices: Cecilia Carrère, Ana Filippini, Raquel Nuñez, Teresa...

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