Intergovernmental Forum on Forests (IFF)
This forum met for its first time in New York (1-3 October), with the participation of an important number of NGOs and indigenous peoples organizations. The IFF is the continuation (Read More)
Bulletin Issue 5 – October 1997
Dear friends,
This is the fifth issue of the World Rainforest Movement’s Bulletin. The World Rainforest Movement is a global network of citizens’groups of North and South involved in efforts to defend the world’s rainforests against the forces that destroy them. It works to secure the lands and livelihoods of forest peoples and supports their efforts to defend the forests from commercial logging, dams, mining, plantations, shrimp farms, colonisation and settlement and other projects that threaten them. We hope that this Bulletin may become a tool for enhancing communication and information among all those people concerned with this issue and willing to contribute to stop and reverse this destructive processes.
Warm regards,
Ricardo Carrere
WRM GENERAL ACTIVITIES
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Indonesia: an answer from Rio Tinto
On September 4 we addressed a letter to president Suharto and Mr Robert Wilson, chairman of Rio Tinto Co., expressing our concern for the death -possibly murder- of four Ekari (Read More)
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Forest reclamation in Iceland
Alvaro Gonzalez, from the WRM secretariat, participated in an International Workshop that took place in Reykjavik and Klaustur, Iceland last September. Even though forests were not the central theme of (Read More)
WRM CAMPAIGNS
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Sarawak: in the morass of corruption
According to a report from Datuk Seri Dr. Lim Keng Yaik, the Malaysian Minister of Industry, illegal logging offenses are declining as a consequence of the 1993 revision of the (Read More)
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Aracruz: Tupinikim and Guarani demands close to a decision.
The Executive Commission of the Tupinikim and Guarani had met in the village of Comboios on 13 September to evaluate the visit of representatives of FUNAI’s Regional Administration (ADR) and (Read More)
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Aracruz: Participation at UNRISD workshop in Costa Rica
An international workshop on “Business responsibility for environmental protection in developing countries” took place in Costa Rica on September 22-24 1997. WRM International Coordinator Ricardo Carrere made a presentation on (Read More)
LOCAL STRUGGLES AND NEWS
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South Africa: more pulp industry development
A new pulp mill that will produce between 400,000 and 500,000 metric tonnes a year, largely for export, is being planned for the Umtata-Kokstad-Ugie triangle. According to Enoch Gogongwana, provincial (Read More)
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Indonesia’s forests in flames
At the same time as the Indonesian delegate sat at the Intergovernmental Forum on Forests –a UN body aimed at the sustainable use of the remaining world’s forests- the Indonesian (Read More)
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Fires in the Amazon too
Analysis of NOAA satellite data indicates that burning in the Brazilian Amazon increased 28% between 1996 and 1997. The average number of fires per day increased from 466 to 599. (Read More)
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Argentina: the struggle of the Kolla people
The “yungas” are forest lands that spread along the Andes from northern Argentina to Venezuela, and from an altitude of 500 to 3,000 metres, according to their latitude. From the (Read More)
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Ecuador: Indigenous women defend the forest of Pastaza
Indigenous women, some of them accompanied by their men and children, initiated a march on September 28 in Pastaza province -northern Ecuador- with the aim of joining the National Constitutional (Read More)
IFF REPORT
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Report of the open-ended ad hoc intergovernmental forum on forests on its first session
Advance unedited text (New York, 1-3 October 1997) 1. The Forum considered suggestions regarding its future activities as contained in the report of the Secretary-General (E/CN.17/IFF/1997/2). 2. The Forum stressed (Read More)