World Rainforest Movement
The Conference of the Parties of the Convention on Biological Diversity will be meeting for its fifth time in Nairobi, Kenya, from 15-26 May, to work on a number of (Read More)
Jacques Ngoun is one of the ‘Pygmies’ of Cameroon. His people, the Bagyeli, are in danger; their forest is being invaded, and the hunting and gathering on which they depend (Read More)
Rainforests in the centre and northern regions of Congo Democratic Republic (ex-Zaire) occupy more than half of the country’s total area of 2,345,409 square kilometres and represent 82.5% of the (Read More)
The World Bank first and the Hutu-Tutsi civil war later have led the Batwa pigmies to near extinction and years of suffering, without this being reported by the world (Read More)
The Timberwatch Coalition of South Africa is organizing a symposium -that will take place on June 10th in the city of Pietermaritzburg- to discuss the issue of timber plantations. These (Read More)
A research recently performed on oil palm plantations in Indonesia studies the past and future trends of the sector, reveals its effects on the country’s economy, local communities and forests (Read More)
For years, the Dayak indigenous peoples of Sarawak have been defending their forests and livelihoods from the depredatory activities of logging, oil palm and eucalyptus plantations promoted by the Malaysian (Read More)
Thailand’s villagers are fighting to prevent a 120,000 hectares (ha) eucalyptus plantation project that would lead to widespread forest clearance and threatens the farming livelihoods of hundreds of rural communities (Read More)
Together with the alarming destruction of primary forests in tropical South and Central America, in Costa Rica something positive is happening: an increase in the area of secondary forests, which (Read More)
Every event happening in Brazil in relation to forests can be considered important, taking into account its huge area, the diversity of forests present in its territory, and the opposing (Read More)
The so called Chilean development model is presented by neo-liberals as a paradigmatic example to be copied by Southern countries in the quest for “progress”. However, the nice figures (Read More)
In spite of the experiences accumulated during all these years with regard to the damages caused by large-scale tree plantations, the draft bill of the so-called Special Law for Sustainable (Read More)
Malaysian logging companies have recently expanded to a large number of Southern countries. Even if Malaysian authorities have publicly urged their home-based companies to operate within the law and to (Read More)
The big landowner Bishop Estate, which owns the sugar lands of Hamakua, has 12,000 acres planted and 4,000 acres more to expand its eucalyptus plantations. The company is also planting (Read More)
Meeting in Moruya over the weekend the National Forest Summit, Australia’s major body representing forest campaign groups, has roundly condemned the federal Government’s push for an Australian Forestry Standard in (Read More)
Indiscriminate logging has been the main cause for the decline of Papua New Guinea’s rainforests, that the government has been unable to stop in spite of the announced moratorium on (Read More)
On a group of Melanesian islands in the South Pacific, a tragic plunder is taking place. Logging by mainly Malaysian companies has escalated in the last five years to more (Read More)