World Rainforest Movement
This year, 2014, seems to have reached a new ‘record’ of international declarations in which the signatories commit to drastically reducing, or even halting, deforestation. It is noteworthy that (Read More)
Industrial logging – the large-scale removal of trees – in tropical forests is a significant cause of forest loss. The on-going devastation of forests in Africa, Asia and South (Read More)
Timber trade in the Amazon region is a multi-million dollar business, for a small number of people. Nearly 60 percent of Peru’s territory is covered with tropical forests, and (Read More)
Deforestation in Indonesia is not only about the loss of forest areas, it is a much more serious matter. A whole living system that evolved into one of extraordinary (Read More)
Myth: Sustainable Forest Management will reduce forest emissions and bring sustainable development. The UN climate negotiations included the concept of ‘Sustainable Forest Management’ (SFM) in the agreements of 2010 (Read More)
For over 500 years, the indigenous tupinambá people have been massacred and expelled from their territory in the southern part of the state of Bahia. But, since 2004, they (Read More)
On 20th September 2014, villagers of Dhinkia made unanimous resolution in their local council not to use their forested lands for non-forest purposes. In a press release from the (Read More)
Environmental and human rights groups from Malaysia and abroad are calling on the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to stop a proposal to loan up to US$45 million for building (Read More)
Increasingly in many countries, the instrument of ‘public hearings’ further serves to legitimatise corporate projects with negative impacts. The government of the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais granted, despite (Read More)
The group “Critical views of the territory from the feminism” participated in the gathering with dynamics, body mapping and sharing experiences between women from communities and urban feminist women and (Read More)
The government of India has launched, in the name of ‘development’, several processes that remove or dilute legal protection of forest communities’ rights and their biodiverse environment. Among them, (Read More)
“Industrial logging: one of the most corrupt and destructive trades on this planet. Their business model is reliant on wrecking the homes of millions of the world’s poorest people, on (Read More)
The Silence of the Pandas became a German bestseller in 2012. A series of injunctions and court cases launched by WWF delayed publication of the investigative report into English. A (Read More)
A report by the Environmental Investigation Agency documents how ‘formal’ and ‘legal’ mechanisms for timber extraction in Peru are serving to ‘launder’ wood of controversial or illegal origin. Species like (Read More)
Local communities affected by the oil palm plantations from the Société des Palmeraies du Cameroun (SOCAPALM) are waging an all-out battle to defend their rights, which are being trampled on with (Read More)
Despite the fancy PR campaigns of Asia’s giant agribusiness group Wilmar praising itself for its “No Deforestation” policy, the company continues to purchase palm oil from suppliers that continue to (Read More)
This video shows the struggle of communities that depend on the forests in the Republic of Congo, and that of their defenders, to reduce the impacts of deforestation and to (Read More)
