World Rainforest Movement
Three important international forest-related events took place during 2002: the Sixth Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity; the World Summit on Sustainable Development; and the Eighth (Read More)
Burdened by a mounting foreign debt and pushed by globalisation and trade liberalisation, Ghana, as many other West African countries, has had its ability to finance domestic public spending severely (Read More)
A traditional hunter, gatherer and honey collector culture, the Sengwer are an indigenous ethnic group from Kenya’s Rift Valley, who used to live in small scattered groups spread over large (Read More)
The cuddly tree logo of the Forest Stewardship Council adorns the products of alien industrial tree plantations, as well as those of the real thing (forests, that is). It could (Read More)
According to a paper produced by the Tanzanian Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism, Forestry and Beekeeping Division, the Forest Policy in Tanzania identifies deforestation as the major problem in (Read More)
The WRM have been denouncing the extensive destruction of forests in Burma through deforestation processes –among which commercial logging plays a major role– resulting in serious impacts on the environment (Read More)
Of the more than 10 million Cambodians currently living in rural areas, over 8.5 million depend on natural resources to support their livelihoods. Although most rely on rice farming, they (Read More)
Mangroves are a primary coastal biologically diverse ecosystem in tropical and subtropical regions which has traditionally supported local livelihood providing food –since the mangrove area is spawning and nursery area (Read More)
Southeast Asian countries –particularly Indonesia and Malaysia–, have over 20 million hectares or 60 percent of the world’s tropical peatlands. Peat swamps occur inland just beyond coastal mangroves and often (Read More)
At the beginning of the nineties, the introduction and cultivation of eucalyptus, a species originating in Australia, was promoted as a major timber business. However, at the end of the (Read More)
Bertha Oliva’s life was indelibly marked by the kidnap and disappearance of her husband Tomás Nativí, in June 1981, by government security forces. In 1982 she founded the Committee of (Read More)
The US conservation group, Conservation International (CI) is requesting the Mexican government to use its armed forces to crush the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) once and for all, according (Read More)
The PCF (Prototype Carbon Fund) is the World Bank’s fund that mobilizes resources to promote the carbon dioxide trade, whereby contaminating companies –mainly located in the countries of the North– (Read More)
The more that is planted, the more rights that are lost. In Colombia, there are approximately 170,000 hectares of oil palm plantations. Testimonies by a delegate of the palm sector (Read More)
The Amerindian Peoples Association (APA) has expressed deep concern about the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to establish Southern Guyana as a protected area, saying it was “gross disrespect” to local (Read More)
The Ministry of Agriculture of Peru has recently stated that the illegal logging of timber, particularly of mahogany, operates like drug trafficking or smuggling, with an organised and powerful network (Read More)
Samoa has a 2,935 square kilometre of land area comprising two main islands, Upolu and Savaii, and seven smaller islands. More than two thirds of the 178,000 population live on (Read More)