World Rainforest Movement
Dismantle the power of transnational plantation corporations! There is no “smart monoculture”: Support the People’s Climate March! Ten years ago, at a meeting of 250 members of communities affected by (Read More)
Genetic engineering allows scientists to modify trees by inserting genetic material from another tree of the same species, from another tree species or from another species altogether. The attempts by (Read More)
Just a few years ago forestry giant Weyerhauser, a US-based logging company, began running a series of intriguing adverts in airports and magazines. The ads depicted a northern (Read More)
WRM just updated a 2008 country by country overview of research with Genetically Engineered (GE) Trees. This overview contains summarized information from 24 countries where such research is (Read More)
Back in 2009, the European Union agreed on a 20% renewable energy target by 2020. Most of the target is expected to be met from burning biomass, primarily (Read More)
Globally, many people rely on wood as fuel for cooking and heating, but increasingly, commercial and industrial interests are also turning to wood for producing so-called ‘bioenergy’. Massive coal (Read More)
The commercial tree plantation located in the Kiboga District, the ‘cattle corridor’ of mid-western Uganda, under the name of “Kikonda Forest Reserve”, covers 12,182 hectares of land owned by Uganda’s (Read More)
In the early 17th century, during the colonial era, shipwrecked Africans reached the Caribbean coast, inhabited by the Kalinagu or Caribe people. Over the years, cultural syncretism gave rise (Read More)
A genetically engineered (GE) tree is a tree whose DNA has been modified using genetic engineering techniques. In most cases the aim is to introduce a novel attribute to (Read More)
Rapid expansion of African palm cultivation in Honduras has had profound social and environmental consequences for the black, indigenous and campesino population, whose legitimate rights to land, food and a (Read More)
More than 330 international organizations, social movements and networks are publicly denouncing the corporate takeover of the climate negotiations due to take place September 19-23 at the United Nations headquarters (Read More)
The WRM has for a long time denounced how the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) wrongly certified millions of hectares of monoculture tree plantations, benefiting mainly the interests of the corporations (Read More)
Four leaders of the Ashéninka people of the Peruvian Amazon were murdered by illegal loggers operating on their lands. Among them was Edwin Chota a prominent anti-logging campaigner who had (Read More)
Confédération Paysanne, the French chapter of La Vía Campesina, Friends of the Earth France, and others, reaffirm that peasant agriculture is the only type of agriculture: it is not compatible (Read More)
Representatives of organizations from different Latin American countries and of international networks met together in La Ceiba, Honduras, verified from local testimonies the serious situation faced by campesino, indigenous and (Read More)
In Thailand, both the army and civilian governments define forests as “wilderness free of inhabitants”, neglecting that tropical forests have always been home to indigenous and peasant communities. Laws have (Read More)
Producing cheap palm oil comes at a high price: destruction of rainforests, labour exploitation, and brutal land grabbing. With lands in Indonesia and Malaysia becoming more difficult for palm oil (Read More)
A study from Agroforestry World has shown that while China has increased the amount of tree cover with a reforestation and ‘payment for ecosystem services’ program, it has failed to (Read More)
On September 4 a public hearing in Brasilia considered the application of FuturaGene, owned by the Suzano pulp and paper company, to grow and commercialize the country’s first transgenic eucalyptus (Read More)
The area planted in eucalyptus and pine in Latin America has doubled in the past three decades, due to the action of national and transnational companies. Wood production is intended (Read More)
For Indonesian logging company Asia Pacific Resources International Holdings Limited (APRIL), clearing of peat forest on an island of Sumatra is “in line with its Sustainable Forest Management Policy” because, (Read More)
