World Rainforest Movement
Indigenous Baiga women in India: “Our story should be heard”
Beyond Forests: Conservation NGOs have Turned into “Companies”
Attempt to Re-Colonize Forests in India The new Draft Amendments to Indian Forest Act
India: Odisha government must not ignore forest rights claims on POSCO project site
India: BBC investigation reveals deadly toll of shoot-to-kill policy in tiger reserves
Why are we in jail? A women’s fight against injustice and domination in India
Movement update of resistance against POSCO in Odisha, India
Learning from India’s Chipko movement: fighting for feminism and for the environment
India: Appeal to the government and the UN on indigenous forest communities’ rights
Deforestation funds more plantations: The new Compensatory Afforestation Fund Bill in India
The Asian Development Bank’s infrastructure-led ‘growth’ in India and the Mekong region (1)
Caravan for climate justice, gender and food sovereignty across Bangladesh, India and Nepal,
Indian organizations declared all the Tiger Reserves in the Nilgiris Biosphere Reserves as illegal
Andaman Islands, India: Jarawa people turned into a “tourist attraction”
Mega-projects and the criminalization of struggles to defend people’s rights in India and Honduras
India: Women take the lead in the fight for their rights over forest
India: Ravaged Landscape, Devastated People – Tales of Hydro Power CDM projects in Himachal Pradesh
India: Forests and tree plantations under carbon offset schemes
Posco: Bad for India, bad for Uruguay and bad for the climate
India: Pushing “REDD plus” at the expense of forests and forest dwellers
India: POSCO mining project halted by people’s opposition but forest clearance still stands
Posco: Destroying forests in India and establishing carbon sink plantations in Uruguay
India: Jatropha plantations destroy the livelihoods of poor local communities
India: the Police and the Forest Department attack women that fight for their lands
India: Forest dependent Vangujjars harassed by local government
India: A Story of Non-Participatory Conservation in the Buxa Tiger Reserve
India: The need for community control over natural resources
India: Supreme Court orders closure of a road which threatened the Jarawa’s survival
India: Reports of Forest Department involvement in violence against the Adivasi people
India: Gender bias and disempowerment in World Bank-funded forestry projects
India: Indigenous peoples victims of “conservation” at Rajive Gandhi National Park
India: Alleviating poverty through participatory development
India: people versus nature or World Bank and government versus people?
India: “Gachha bina. (Without trees) . . . jeevana nahi (no life)”
This study looks at how Compensatory Afforestation is accelerating both, the destruction of forests in India by big corporations and the appropriation of community land for the supposed compensation.
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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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Appeal to India, to its Supreme Court, States, Party Leaders, to the NHRC, NCST and to the UN organs to protect millions forest dwellers’ Human Rights and biocultural diversity from forced evictions.
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The petition to support forest dwelling communities remains open for sign-on until April 19th 2019. You can sign on here.
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Resist the anti-adivasi designs of the BJP government!
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On February 13, 2019, India’s Supreme Court passed an order that instructs state governments to evict forest dwelling communities if their claims to live in their forests have not been recognized under the Forest Rights Act (FRA). After...
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Park guards have extra-judicially executed fifty people in the last three years under India’s infamous “shoot on sight” national parks policy. Tribal people face being shot, beaten, tortured and killed at the hands of heavily armed...
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A report from the Indian organization Kalpavriksh documents community initiatives that protect biodiversity while ensuring their cultural, livelihood and food sovereignty in the Dooars region of North West Bengal. Indigenous communities in...
read more Statement from All India Forum of Forest Movements (AIFFM), 28 February, 2019.
read more Please endorse the letter enclosed below that will be sent to the Indian Supreme Court and the Prime Minister of India urging them to stop this injustice!
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Press Release. The Supreme Court of India, hearing a decade-old petition challenging the constitutional validity of the Forest Rights Act, ordered that forest dwellers whose claims for recognition of forest rights have been rejected would have to be evicted in a summary and time-bound manner.
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India: stop evictions from tiger reserves! Hundreds of Baiga people rallied on March 2018 to oppose the authorities’ attempts to evict them from the forests that they have lived in and managed since time immemorial. Joining forces from...
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Forest rights movements in India need support to prevent the commercial takeover of forests from the forest communities for monoculture tree plantations. Please find below a petition. Urgent signatures of both organisations and individuals...
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The India Climate Justice Collective has released the fifth issue of the “Mausam” magazine. This time the focus is on India’s Intended Nationally Determined Contribution, submitted to the UN Climate Convention in October, to which...
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To: – President of India, Mr. Pranab Mukherjee – Prime Minister of India, Mr. Narendra Modi – Minister of Tribal Affairs of India, Mr. Jual Oram – Minister of Environment,Forests& Climate Change, Mr. Prakash...
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Aklu Chero, a tribal leader protesting the construction of the dam, was shot at by the police on April 15. (Vipin Kumar/ HT Photos) Since April 14, 2015, the oustees of Kanhar Dam Project in the Sonbhadra distrct of the northern Indian...
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The India Climate Justice collective has published the third issue of the Mausam magazine aiming to facilitate constructive and creative debates on climate issues. It attempts to connect these issues to local struggles over natural...
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First-hand testimony of Andaman tribe reveals sexual exploitation – In an audio recording obtained by Survival International, a young Jarawa man reports that poachers regularly enter his tribe’s protected reserve and lure young...
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The Global Forest Coalition launched a new report on ‘REDD+ and the Underlying Causes of Deforestation and forest Degradation’ based on five case studies in Brazil, Colombia, India, Uganda and Tanzania elaborated by national...
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WRM information sheets on GE tree research First posted: 25 November 2009 Last update: August 2014 Forest tree species being manipulated: Rubber tree Aim of genetic manipulation More rapid growth rate to increase yield Those...
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PRESS RELEASE – In a National Consultation held in Delhi on August 7, 2004, several civil society organisations in India including major national alliances on mining, forestry and dams and hydro power, rejected the World Bank’s...
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Commissioned by the Global Forest Coalition This report is based on 21 country case studies, including Australia, Brazil, Cameroon, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Czech republic, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Kenya,Malaysia, the Netherlands, New...
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