World Rainforest Movement
As was informed in WRM Bulletin Nr.5, a group of NGOs present at the Intergovernmental Forum on Forests’ (IFF) first meeting in October 1997, initiated a solution-oriented process to address (Read More)
The WRM International Secretariat endorsed a letter sent by a number of environmental organizations to the FSC Board Committee on February 4th, requesting that the deadline of the comment period (Read More)
The difficult process related to the definitive recognition ot the indigenous territorial rights in Aracruz seems to come to an end. The President of FUNAI, Mr. Sulivan Silvestre Oliveira -responding (Read More)
We have received the following statement from Sarawak with a request to circulate it as widely as possible: “The Bakun Region People’s Committee (BRPC) urges the State government and the (Read More)
Sarawak will open up some 50,000 hectares of land every year for the next few years to be developed into oil-palm plantations due to rising demand for edible oil. Business (Read More)
“The agreement between Rainforest Action Network, Mitsubishi Motor Sales America and Mitsubishi Electric America is a testament to the efficacy of consumer boycotts! In this age of corporate supremacy, this (Read More)
We have received the following message from the Forest Peoples Programme, requesting assistance for preparing a document to submit to the Intergovernmental Forum on Forests at its July-August meeting, on (Read More)
As a response to a fax sent by the WRM International Secretariat requesting information about Baton Mittee, Nigerian activist arrested in connection with the Ogoni Day, we received the following (Read More)
Concern is growing in Singapore and Malaysia that the region will again be smothered in smoke pollution from uncontrolled forest fires in Indonesia. Last year, such fires caused widespread health (Read More)
A Japanese tree planting tour group called “Green Mission” is planning to visit Malaysia in March 1998. The tour is organized by Kumon-Child Institute and Forest Culture Association of Japan, (Read More)
Oil industry is one of the most polluting worldwide and its activities have caused extensive damages in the Amazon. Now news from Asia arrive. The British-based oil company, Premier Oil, (Read More)
The communal forest of Totonicapan is located at an altitude of about 3,000 metres a.s.l at the mountain chain Sierra Madre del Sur in western Guatemala. The lowest side of (Read More)
The fishing community of Mehuin in the 10th Region of Chile is opposing the project of Celulosa Arauco y Constitucin S.A. (CELCO) -a huge pulp and paper company- to build (Read More)