The roots of a forest
In March 2014, more than 100 organizations from all over the world requested through an open letter that the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, change its (Read More)
OUR VIEWPOINT
A DIVERSITY OF STRUGGLES FOR A DIVERSITY OF FORESTS
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The forests not seen on picture post-cards: looking beyond the tropical belt
When it comes to ‘tropical forests,’ most studies, campaigns and policies focus on those located along the equator: the Amazon rainforest, the Congo basin and the south or southeast Asian (Read More)
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Forests in Mozambique face extinction
Mozambique used to be rich in forests. Nowadays, not only can it not be considered a rich country, but its forests are also at risk of disappearing unless urgent, concrete (Read More)
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Russia: How to combine forest conservation and a traditional use of nature?
The Russian Federation, located in Eastern Europe and Northern Asia, is the world’s largest country in terms of area. Part of this area is dedicated as “Specially Protected Natural Territories” (Read More)
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Páramos in Colombia: a short reflection on current threats and resistance action
Meekly the water flows from lichens and stones like a flood of feelings from the soul of the earth… (Efraín Gutiérrez Zambrano) Páramos are life systems of the high Andean (Read More)
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India: Forest struggles at the crossroads
One can still come across unfragmented forests and wilderness landscapes in India, some of them comprising the type of structural and species diversity of the vegetation that is typical for (Read More)
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Coastal forests threatened by tourism
The tropical and subtropical coasts of Latin America, in Mexico, Brazil and most Central American and Caribbean countries, have been subjected to waves of tourist development over the last forty (Read More)
PEOPLES IN ACTION
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“NO to ProSavana” Campaign in Southern Africa
The Mozambique Union of Farmers, UNAC, a member of La Via Campesina, stressed during the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) People’s Summit in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe (14-16 August 2014), that ProSavana, (Read More)
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Southern Africa Development Community People’s Summit Declaration: “We reject externally driven false solutions to climate change such as REDD+”
The NO REDD in Africa! Network (NRAN) took part in the 2014 SADC People’s Summit in Bulawayo City, Zimbabwe. The summit’s final declaration brings strong demands to the Heads of (Read More)
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Sixth National Conference on Páramos and High Mountains, Water for Life!, Colombia,
Friends of the Earth Colombia, CENSAT Agua Viva, is making available to the public three promotional audios for the Conference on Páramos and High Mountains, aimed at reaching the residents (Read More)
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Caravan for climate justice, gender and food sovereignty across Bangladesh, India and Nepal,
Peasant organizations and members of La Via Campesina from Bangladesh, India and Nepal invite people to join an 18-day Caravan (10-28 November 2014) to deepen and extend networks of grassroots (Read More)
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Petition to stop harassment of a defender of earth and water in Peru: Yes to Water, No to Mining!
In Cajamarca, in the northern Peruvian Andes, where the headwaters of the rivers, the forests and páramos should be protected territories, the biggest mining company in South America, Yanacocha, is (Read More)
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Paraguay: Transgenic soy and human rights violations. After the coup comes consolidation of the real power of transnational companies
The rapid expansion of monocultures of transgenic soy in Paraguay – 95 per cent of which are covered by Monsanto patents – has left in its wake a trail of (Read More)
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Women groups converge in parallel to the Southern Africa Development Community Heads of State Summit (14-18 August)
Women from all corners of the Southern African region descended on Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, to participate in the People’s Summit. They aimed to share their experiences on how they have been (Read More)
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When forests aren’t really forests: the high cost of Chile’s tree plantations,
According to Global Forest Watch, Chile’s forests are expanding. On the ground, however, a different scene plays out: monocultures have replaced diverse natural forests, and tree plantations now occupy 43 (Read More)
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The African Biodiversity Network launched the documentary “The Mining Curse: Sacred Natural Sites Under Siege”
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 (Read More)
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The “State of the World’s Rivers” website from the NGO International Rivers, illustrates the alarming situation of the Mekong River Basin.
By selecting the ‘Mekong River Basin’ from the left panel where it says 2River Basins in Focus’, detailed information will appear about the area. The Mekong River is the longest (Read More)