Biodiversity is much more than carbon
As well as celebrating the International Day for Biological Diversity this month, on May 22, we are also on the eve of another international climate change conference: the 34th session (Read More)
OUR VIEWPOINT
COMMUNITIES AND FORESTS
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Certification of shrimp farming endangers mangroves
Certification has become a perverse tool in the hands of big corporations that are using it like a “green seal” to impose intrinsically damaging systems of production that become a (Read More)
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Asian forests lost to pet’s market
Often hidden, neglected or unknown, the underlying causes of deforestation are multiple and varied. And even odd. Maybe many people are rather familiar with the idea that overconsumption in high-income (Read More)
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Brazil: Environmentalists murdered in the Amazon and debate over a new Forest Code: Impunity must end!
On May 24, environmental activists José Cláudio Ribeiro da Silva and Maria do Espírito Santo, who were husband and wife, were shot and killed near their home in the southeast (Read More)
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REDD-Monitor’s round-up: Watching REDD unravel
After almost five month’s of dithering, Indonesia’s two-year forest moratorium started this month. President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono faced a choice between two options: one version of the moratorium would have prevented (Read More)
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Peru: Land grabbing in indigenous peoples’ territories
The Shawi indigenous people, also known as Chayhuitas, live in the territory made up by the basins of the Paranapuras and Cahuapanas Rivers, located in the provinces of Alto Amazonas (Read More)
COMMUNITIES AND TREE PLANTATIONS
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Chile: A disastrous forestry model with new “branches” in Latin America
What the big forestry companies have done with our territories in Chile is so devastating, so sad and so irreversible that it brings to the mind the “shock doctrine” described (Read More)
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Kenya: Laureate Maathai advises discouraging plantation of Eucalyptus
When Kenyan Nobel Peace Laureate Wangari Maathai launched in 1977 the Green Belt Movement – promoting the planting of indigenous trees in forest catchment areas and riparian reserves, private farms (Read More)
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Malaysia: Landmark decision against oil palm joint venture companies
The High Court in Kuching, the capital city of the East Malaysian state of Sarawak in the island of Borneo, has made a landmark decision when it ruled out on (Read More)
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Uruguay: The power of the plantation and pulp company Montes del Plata
Montes del Plata is the name of the joint venture created for operations in Uruguay by two forestry, pulp and paper transnationals: Arauco of Chile and the Swedish-Finnish company Stora (Read More)