World Rainforest Movement
This issue of the WRM bulletin is focused on one of the key strategies that (mainly extractive) industries use to expand within the framework of the so-called “green economy”: biodiversity (Read More)
The parliamentary coup that brought Michel Temer’s illegitimate government to power, was not what set in motion one of the central goals of Brazil’s current mining policy: to expand mineral (Read More)
This year, 2017, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) celebrates its 50th anniversary. Since the Bank was founded, it has invested more than US$ 250 billion dollars in the region. Much (Read More)
In 2014, the Gabonese government passed a new “Sustainable Development” Law, which authorizes companies to compensate for the destruction they cause in forests or traditional lands by buying offset credits. (Read More)
Colombia is one of the first Latin American countries to set up and implement specific rules and regulations on biodiversity offsets. In addition to article 50 of law 99 from (Read More)
“It is an absurdity, as well as an injustice that they take away our forest claiming that they want to protect it, while in reality it is only a way (Read More)
The governments of Cambodia, Laos and Thailand are planning eleven large-scale hydropower dams on the Mekong River’s mainstream. If built, the dams would block major fish migrations and disrupt this (Read More)
How air quality offsets were set in place Air quality offsets in South Africa are part of a push back against gains made in air quality regulation through the hard (Read More)
BHP Billiton is the world’s largest mining and petroleum company running mines in 13 countries. Its main offices are in Melbourne, Australia, and in London, UK, where the company sells (Read More)
Minera Panamá (MPSA), owned by Canadian company First Quantum, has a concession to conduct open-pit copper mining in the Donoso District, Colón Province, which covers an area of 13,600 hectares (Read More)
Women protesters led a blockade against the Panguna copper mine to prevent the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoA) between the Autonomous Bougainville Government (ABG) and the Bougainville Copper (Read More)
In November 2012, two women were found dead at the edge of a palm oil plantation. The death were understood as a clear warning to the Klong Sai Pattana village (Read More)
That is the title of a book co-authored by Mordecai Ogada and John Mbaria. “In many parts of Africa, conservation goes along with controlling lands in one way or another. (Read More)
The Ambatovy mine, a massive operation of eight billion US-dollars (in today’s value), is designed to extract nickel and cobalt from Madagascar’s rich soil. It has directly affected a forest (Read More)
This report from the organization “War on Want” reveals the degree to which British companies control Africa’s key mineral resources, notably gold, platinum, diamonds, copper, oil, gas and coal. It (Read More)
