
International Day of Struggle Against Monoculture Tree Plantations 2020
It is a day for organizations, networks and movements to celebrate resistance and raise their voices to demand, “Stop the Expansion of Monoculture Tree Plantations!”
read moreIt is a day for organizations, networks and movements to celebrate resistance and raise their voices to demand, “Stop the Expansion of Monoculture Tree Plantations!”
read moreA threat spreads across our territories. Under the misleading name of “reforestation”, which sounds quite nice, huge plantations of exotic – and even genetically engineered – trees have been set up in Brazil by transnational corporations. True “green deserts” lead to the extinction of countless species of our fauna and flora and changed the fundamental characteristics of our incredible natural and cultural landscapes, with clear social and environmental impacts, threatening the traditional ways of life of peoples and communities.
As the first country in Latin America to deregulate a genetically engineered tree (a eucalyptus species) and with a favorable political environment, Brazil has become a reference for transnational companies to carry out their projects. Precisely for this reason, the World Congress of IUFRO – International Union of Forest Research Organizations – will be held in Brazil, between September 29th and October 5th, in Curitiba, Paraná. We reject this corporate event, where false solutions and new ways to increase corporate profits will be discussed, at the expense of the commons.
read moreThe declaration is open for sign-on in solidarity until 31 January 2019.
read moreTo: Brazilian National Technical Biosafety Commission (CTNBio) We, the undersigned, have been informed that FuturaGene, a biotechnology firm wholly owned by the pulp and paper company Suzano, has submitted a request for commercial planting...
read moreVeracel – which belongs to the Swedish-Finnish company Stora Enso and the Norwegian-Brazilian company Aracruz Celulose – is attempting to obtain certification for its plantations established over 78,000 hectares in the extreme...
read morePress Release – September 1, 2006 Organizations from eight different countries are requesting the Forest Stewardship Council –a labelling scheme that certifies good forest management practices- to withdraw the FSC certificate...
read moreIndigenous peoples in Brazil fight against government policies… and the pandemic
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
Women Stand Up to Fight the Suzano Paper Mill in Maranhão, Brazil
Brazil: Hydro Alunorte’s Alumina Tailings Dam. A Disaster Foreshadowed
(Swahili) Brazili: Mimi ni Kum’tum, Ninatokea Jamii ya Watu wa Akroá-Gamela
Peasant communities and those dependent on the forests united in struggle
No to ProSAVANA and MATOPIBA. Solidarity with people in Mozambique and Brazil!
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
Agribusiness and environmental injustice: impacts on the health of rural women
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
Dercy Teles on the popular movement of rubber tappers in Brazil
Defending Indigenous Peoples in Voluntary Isolation in Brazil and Peru
Brazil and land rights: A historical struggle that continues and intensifies
“To enjoy full health, we want to make a difference”: A woman’s voice from the forests of 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
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: 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
The forests not seen on picture post-cards: looking beyond the tropical belt
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
Changes in family life: Observations on eucalyptus and women in Mato Grosso do Sul
Brazil: Sexual exploitation of women and mega-dam construction in the Amazon
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
Brazil: Threat of monoculture eucalyptus plantation expansion in the Northeast
Brazil: The double role of Norway in conserving and destroying the Amazon
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
Support the struggle against the Belo Monte dam, a struggle that has not ended
Genetically engineered eucalyptus plantations: And then there were four…
Brazil: The definition of forest – another front for resistance and reconquest
Brazil: Eucalyptus and the growing precarity of work in Mato Grosso do Sul
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
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
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: 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: Women affected by dams – changes in their lifestyles
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
Plantations, poverty and power: Europe’s role in the expansion of the pulp industry in the South
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: 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
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: Fisher-folk affected by Aracruz Celulose close the company’s private port
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
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: 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: The option between family-based agriculture and giant Aracruz Celulose
Brazil: Political confrontation in Espirito Santo over eucalyptus plantations
Brazil: Interamerican Development Bank promotes destruction of Upper Tocantins River
“Forward, Brazil” . . . towards further destruction of the Amazon
Brazil: The struggle of the Pataxó indigenous peoples in Bahia
Brazil: The short memory of Veracel and the power of Aracruz
Brazil: joint government agency-Greenpeace action in the Amazon
Brazil: Forests in the balance: Challenges of conservation and development
Brazil: Support for Extractive Reserve on islands of Tucuruí Dam reservoir
Brazil: say what they say, Monte Pascoal belongs to the Pataxó
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
read moreOnly available in Portuguese.
read moreA 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.
read moreA 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
read moreThe 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.
read moreREDD: 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...
read moreStudy 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...
read moreby 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)...
read moreAlso 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...
read moreFor 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...
read moreAfter 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...
read moreBy 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...
read moreImpacts 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...
read moreEdited 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...
read moreBy 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’...
read moreBackground 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...
read moreThis 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.
read moreHere 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...
read more500 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...
read moreFour 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...
read moreAn inteview with Winnie Overbeek, the International Coodinator of the WRM, about the causes and the impacts of the deforestation in the Amazon.
read moreIt 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.
read moreThe 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...
read moreChiefs 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.
read moreCacique 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...
read moreCacique 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.
read moreThe declaration is open for sign-on in solidarity until 31 January 2019.
read more(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.
read moreFrom 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...
read morePeople from the forests gathered in Sena Madureira, Acre, to denounce the false solutions of green capitalism and demand their right to their lands.
read moreTransgenic 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.
read moreFinnish 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...
read morePress 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...
read moreWe, 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...
read moreThe 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...
read morePlease, 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...
read moreThe 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,...
read moreSubject: 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...
read moreIn 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...
read moreIn 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...
read moreLast 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...
read moreA 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...
read morePeople 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...
read moreDecision 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...
read moreThe 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...
read moreFOR 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...
read moreDear 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...
read moreOnly 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...
read moreFact-finding and advocacy mission preliminary report, by Cristiane Faustino y Fabrina Furtado Download the preliminary report as pdf...
read moreHerrn Minister Gerd Müller Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (BMZ) Stresemannstraße 94 10963 Berlin Frau Ministerin Dr. Barbara Hendricks Bundesministerium für Umwelt,...
read moreAlso 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,...
read moreOnly 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...
read moreOn 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,...
read moreThe 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...
read moreFor 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...
read moreFSC 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...
read more(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...
read moreThe 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...
read moreOnly 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) –...
read moreOnly 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...
read moreLa 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...
read moreThis 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...
read moreOnly 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...
read moreWRM 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...
read moreA 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...
read moreBy 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...
read moreby 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...
read more“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...
read moreBy 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...
read moreAn 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...
read moreOnly 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...
read moreOnly 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,...
read moreWe 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...
read moreDear 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...
read moreBrazil, September 2011, various organizations. Only available in Portuguese – Read the letter...
read moreVideo – 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...
read moreBy 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...
read more(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...
read moreOnly 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...
read moreOnly 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...
read moreBy 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...
read moreOnly 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....
read moreOnly 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...
read moreWe, 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,...
read moreBy 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...
read moreOnly 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...
read moreOnly 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...
read moreCommissioned 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...
read moreTestimonies from the meeting “Threats and Impacts of Genetically Engineered Trees (GE-trees) Monoculture”, that took place in Porto Alegre, Brazil, in April 2019.
read moreAnne Petermann, coordinator of the global Stop GE-Trees Campaign, explains what Genetically Engineered trees are, the risks, uncertainties and context.
read moreDercy Teles, from the rubber tapper movement, and Lindomar Padilha, from Conselho Indigenista Missionário (CIMI) – Acre, explain why monoculture tree plantations are not forests.
read moreThree testimonies of resistance from Brasil, 2019.
read moreIndigenous 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...
read moreProduced 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...
read moreBy 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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