World Rainforest Movement
This activity run by large national or transnational oil companies is increasingly affecting tropical forests. In spite of the climate crisis and the role of excessive fossil fuel consumption at the root of this crisis, oil and gas extraction are expected to increase and continue for decades, causing severe pollution, deforestation and other negative impacts, affecting local communities and the biodiversity of the forest.
On the occasion of March 21st, proclaimed by the UN General Assembly as International Day of the Forests (1), the World Rainforest Movement (WRM) and more than 300 signatories call on the General Assembly and UN Institutions and...
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Keep fossil fuels in the ground: a declaration for the health of Mother Earth
Ecuador: Chevron-Texaco to pay for the devastation it caused in the Amazon
The forests not seen on picture post-cards: looking beyond the tropical belt
Large-scale infrastructure projects in forests: Constructing a base without a foundation
Infrastructure, development and natural resources in Africa: A few examples from Cameroon
AlteRAtive Energies: When the only “alternative” is integral change
Women of the Amazon defend the rainforest from the dangers of oil drilling
Peru and Brazil: Matsés indigenous peoples against oil industry activity
Nigeria: Dutch court condemns Shell – but more justice is needed!
Forests, oil and energy: time to re-capture our governments!
African groups demand Obama stop pushing dirty energy through Power Africa
Impacts of oil prospecting and exploration in Virunga National Park
Ecuador: Inter-American Court of Human Rights rules in favour Sarayaku people
Philippines: Oil and gas bringing misery and destruction in mangrove region
Nigeria: The long arm of justice is finally catching up on Shell
Ecuador: New oil exploration activities in Yasuní National Park
Forests are one of the most valuable eco-systems in the world, containing over 60 per cent of the world’s biodiversity. This biodiversity has multiple social and economic values, apart from its intrinsic value, varying from the...
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CUIDANDERAS is a mini-series from the Urgent Action Fund for Latin America and the Caribbean (UAF-LAC). It presents stories of Latin American women defenders who are committed to caring for their territories, healing their bodies, and...
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Since 1979, more than 100 oil spills have occurred along the North Peruvian pipeline – a mega construction, stretching a massive 1,106 km from the Amazon to the Peruvian coast, operated and owned by state company Petroperu. The large...
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The General Assembly of Oilwatch, which is celebrating its 20 years of existence, and met in Quito in the framework of the Social Forum Resistance to Habitat III, declares: 1. The United Nations Conferences on Human Settlements held in...
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de EU Latin America. This video explains how a trade relationship – mainly based on the extraction of raw materials – is contributing to depletion of non-renewable natural resources, global warming and social...
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The documentary explains how generation after generation, communities in Africa have maintained and defended their Sacred Natural Sites as critical places within forests, mountains, rivers, and water springs, which are of cultural,...
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Korinna Horta, in UNRID, The Politics of Resource Extraction. The World Bank-supported Chad-Cameroon Oil & Pipeline project would leverage a much larger private sector investment by the consortium led by ExxonMobil. This article shows...
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Acción Ecológica (in Spanish, with English subtitles) Neither free, nor prior, nor informed. An independently produced video exposes the so-called prior consultation of indigenous peoples conducted during the 11th Oil Round (an auction...
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In response to the government’s decision to abandon the initiative to leave the oil in the Ishpingo-Tambococha-Tiputini (ITT) block beneath Yasuní National Park untapped, and to begin drilling operations, a youth organization called...
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Against oil extraction in the Amazon forest in southern Ecuador:
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Produced by Gender CC, Women for Climate Justice , with the support of the WRM International Secretariat Directed by Flavio Pazos Voice: Lori Nordstrom Based on the work of: Ana Filippini – WRM Andrea Guzmán – CENPROTAC,...
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