Struggles for the Forests
When corporations destroy forests, or restrict or even prohibit access to forest peoples' territories, they place communities' ways of life and their very existence at risk. WRM supports forest peoples' struggles to defend their territories, and their right to decide how to live, and how to use the forests they depend on.
Bulletin articles
4 January 2022
We invite you to reflect with an activist who explores resistance processes and the challenges they face, based on her experience with struggles in Brazil. In this reflection, we also invite you to join the collective resistance from your own contexts and spaces of organization. The fight continues and the fight is one!
Articles
25 June 2025
Civil Society Response to the Indonesian Government's Reply to the Letter from Nine UN Special Rapporteurs Regarding the Merauke National Strategic Project
Bulletin articles
24 June 2025
The following excerpts are from conversations we had with people who, despite living on different continents, have made the same choice: to live without electricity. Whether they live in the Indonesian archipelago or the Brazilian Amazon, their testimonies show that electricity is not an essential resource for human life. On the contrary, for these people, it is essential to do without it.
Bulletin articles
24 June 2025
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24 June 2025
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23 June 2025
Action alerts
13 May 2025
Wildlife Works company (WWC) wants to carry out a carbon project in the Brazilian Amazon. But the Ka'apor indigenous people in resistance don’t want to turn nature into a commodity. Support this petition for the authorities to ban the company from operating in the Alto Turiaçu Indigenous Land.
Articles
23 April 2025
Kami mengundang Anda untuk berpartisipasi dalam peluncuran virtual film dokumenter baru, tersedia dalam Bahasa Indonesia, tentang perlawanan masyarakat adat dan tradisional terhadap percepatan REDD dan proyek pasar karbon lainnya atas hutan dan wilayah mereka. Ini akan terjadi pada hari Rabu 30 April.
Multimedia
1 April 2025
Video - Militarised deforestation in Papua: how Indonesia is converting indigenous forest into farms
The Indonesian government’s food estate programme aims to convert 1.6 million hectares of land in Papua into rice fields and sugar cane plantations, annexing indigenous lands in the process. Thousands of troops have been sent from Java to support President Prabowo Subianto’s signature policy. Video made by The Gecko Project.
Articles
19 March 2025
In the framework of International Women's Day, WRM is relaunching the podcast “Women’s struggles for land”, with stories from women’s collectives from the coastal area of Chiapas in Mexico, the Malen Chiefdom in Sierra Leone and the Kapuas river area of Central Kalimantan in Indonesia. While their stories appear quite different from each other at first glance, we find many commonalities and a strong connection between them.
Articles
19 February 2025
Invitamos este lunes 24 de febrero a participar del lanzamiento virtual para Latinoamérica de este documental sobre la resistencia de comunidades indígenas y tradicionales al avance de REDD y otros proyectos del mercado de carbono sobre sus territorios.
Multimedia
19 February 2025
Made in 2024 on the initiative of indigenous communities in the Amazon, Latin America, the documentary brings together experiences, reflections and testimonies of Indigenous Peoples and traditional communities who decided to say NO to REDD and other carbon projects, which they identify as a threat to their territories and cultures.