Every day should be Earth Day
This month, on April 22, Earth Day was celebrated around the world. Earth Day was founded in the 1970s by environmental activists concerned about the effects of pollution and environmental (Read More)
OUR VIEWPOINT
COMMUNITIES AND FORESTS
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India: Ravaged Landscape, Devastated People – Tales of Hydro Power CDM projects in Himachal Pradesh
India continues to be one of the ‘hottest’ locations for carbon ‘offset’ projects despite the global carbon market slump: as of now, about 1700 projects claim to have achieved emission-reduction, (Read More)
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Mexico: REDD+ in Chiapas finances disease, death and intercommunity conflicts
In Mexico, deforestation is advancing at a rapid rate alongside various megaprojects: the expansion of industrial monoculture plantations of oil palm and jatropha for biofuel production, the building of dams, (Read More)
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Philippines: A call to stop mining in Palawan
SAY NO to mining in Palawan Province, the home of the best-conserved and most ecologically diverse forest in the Philippines. Sign the on-line signature petition to deliver a strong message (Read More)
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India: Women take the lead in the fight for their rights over forest
The non-recognition of the territorial rights of indigenous and other traditional peoples has been identified as one of the major underlying causes of deforestation. In India, inequalities in land tenure (Read More)
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Brazil: OAS calls for suspension of Belo Monte dam construction
On April 4, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), an organ of the Organization of American States (OAS), officially requested that the Brazilian government immediately suspend the authorization and (Read More)
COMMUNITIES AND TREE PLANTATIONS
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Mozambique: More denunciations against Chikweti, a company financed by a Nordic “solidarity” fund
For a number of years, peasant farmer communities in the province of Niassa, in northern Mozambique, have been fighting back against the expansion of monoculture pine and eucalyptus plantations. This (Read More)
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Brazil: Women in Camp Sister Dorothy Stang – for their right to life, against monoculture eucalyptus
On the evening and early morning of 27 th and 28th February, women of the Landless Rural Workers Movement from all over the Extreme South of Bahia gathered in the (Read More)
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Cameroon: peoples territories being targeted for oil palm plantations
Powerful countries and corporations have targeted the African continent to become a commodity supplier for their industrial needs. This has led to intense land grabbing with industrial oil palm plantations (Read More)
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Stora Enso makes money out of environmental crimes
On April 20, the Finnish-Swedish giant of the forestry industry Stora Enso held their annual shareholder meeting in Helsinki where it planned to distribute part of its 2010 EUR 817.4 (Read More)
CLIMATE CHANGE
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Women voices in the climate change negotiations
This month a new UN round of climate change negotiations took place in Bangkok – the first session after the Cancun conference last December. Many key pending issues over which (Read More)
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“Forest in exhaustion”: a new trick to subsidize monoculture tree plantations
“Forest in exhaustion” stems from a controversial proposal by Brazil under the UNFCCC negotiations in Poznan. The interest of Brazil to amend the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) in order to (Read More)
DEFINING FORESTS
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Lend your voice to the forest!
At WRM we have been opposed to FAO’s definition of forests for many years. We believe that it actually serves as an indirect cause of deforestation. According to FAO, a (Read More)