March 21st | UN International Day of Forests
This year, the theme chosen by the UN is “Forests and Biodiversity: Too Precious to Lose”. But how can the UN highlight this when its main policies related to forests and biodiversity allow for large-scale deforestation and biodiversity destruction?
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Green Climate Fund ignores Open Letter demand to say NO to funding requests for industrial tree plantations
On 11 March 2020, the Board of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) approved a requests from the Arbaro Fund for USD 25 million to set up industrial tree plantations in seven countries in Africa and Latin America.
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Organizations tell the Green Climate Fund to say NO to funding requests for industrial tree plantations
133 organisations and 101 individuals from 56 countries have signed the letter to the GCF Board. Specifically, they call for the rejection of a funding request from the Arbaro Fund which the GCF Board will discuss at its 25th meeting from 10-12 March.
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March 8 | Women’s Day
Women, particularly those who depend on forests for their livelihoods and sustenance, face many struggles.
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Sign this letter! Tell Green Climate Fund Board Members to say NO to funding requests that promote monoculture tree plantations
Tell Green Climate Fund Board Members to say NO to funding requests that promote monoculture tree plantations and, in particular, the funding request of the Arbaro Fund for its so-called “Sustainable Forestry Fund”.
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Sign on this letter! Denounce the fraudulent campaign of the Finnish multinational UPM
Adhere to this letter to denounce the greenwashing of the Finnish multinational UPM, which is trying to install a new pulp mill and expand the monoculture tree plantations in Uruguay.
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Action Alert! Immediate release of villagers in the DR Congo imprisoned on false charges related to a land conflict with Feronia Inc.
Groups call for the immediate release of villagers in the DR Congo imprisoned for over 5 months on false charges related to a land conflict with the Canadian oil palm plantation company Feronia Inc. Sign the letter!!!
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International Finance Corporation withdraws REDD+ funding request submitted to the Green Climate Fund
This is good news for forests, forest peoples and the climate because the IFC proposal aimed at subsidizing a carbon market for private sector REDD+ project credits for which there is neither demand nor justification.
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Tell Green Climate Fund Board Members to say NO to REDD+ funding requests and IFC subsidies for REDD+ speculators
More than one hundred organisations signed this open letter to members of the Green Climate Fund Board. The Board will be meeting from 12 to 14 November 2019, and will decide on a number of funding requests related to REDD+.
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Intimidation and attacks against land rights defenders in DRC
On 18 September 2019, Mombulu Boyama Alphonse was arrested in Yangoma, and subsequently detained at Lokutu Police Station following a complaint against him from the General Prosecutor of Tshopo province. The complaint is related to a protest by villagers against Feronia in March 2019.
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Public letter to IUFRO: Plantations are Not Forests!!!
Public letter from Brazilian organizations to the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) World Congress, which takes place from 29th September to 5th October 2019 in Curitiba, Brazil.
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Support this Open letter against tree monocultures – Brazil 2019
A threat spreads across our territories. Under the misleading name of “reforestation”, which sounds quite nice, huge exotic tree plantations have been set up in Brazil by transnational corporations. We invite you to sign the following letter with us.
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Help stop the advance of oil palm plantations in Gabon!
We need your support! We call on organizations, groups, networks and movements to sign this petition in solidarity with Gabonese communities threatened by OLAM / SOTRADER plantations. You can adhere until Thursday, September 19.
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Land defender violently killed by a security guard of Canadian palm oil company Feronia in the DRC
A letter signed by over 140 organizations and social movements from different countries around the world and by over 110,000 individuals has been sent to the President of the DRC and the Governour of Equateur province, where the killing took place.
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Your support is urgently needed! Land defender violently killed by a security guard of Canadian palm oil company Feronia in the DRC
We ask for your urgent support. Please sign on to the Action Alert. It is important to send the letter as soon as possible.
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DRC communities file complaint with German development bank to resolve century-old land conflict with palm oil company
Nine communities from the DR Congo took a historic step this week by filing a complaint with the complaints mechanism of the German development bank (Deutsche Investitions- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft – DEG)
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Sign the petition! African women demand that oil palm companies give back their land and stop the violence
Support African women! Sign the petition included on this article by filling the form enclosed below. Organized women who live around...
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Global Campaign to Reclaim Peoples Sovereignty, Dismantle Corporate Power and Stop Impunity Public Statement
Attempt at Sabotage in New York: the European Union aims to Eliminate the Financing of the United Nations Intergovernmental Working Group...
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New report reveals the murder of Berta Cáceres was not an isolated incident. Join the petition for justice!!
A research about Berta Cáceres case, done by International Advisory Group of Experts (GAIPE) has been launched on October 31st in...
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Letter to FSC for complicity in crimes and impacts of industrial forestry exploitation in Chile
Available only in English and Spanish
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Global Campaign mobilized towards a UN Binding Treaty for Transnational Corporations on Human Rights
The need to confront the Architecture of Impunity Social organisations and movements, communities affected by the operations of...
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Actions around the world to commemorate the International Day of Struggle Against Monoculture Tree Plantations
Hereby we share a number of activities, new materials and media coverages from different countries to commemorate the International Day of...
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Brazil: Indigenous Peoples from Acre declare their rejection of REDD policies and their support to CIMI
Indigenous Peoples from Acre in Brazil declare their rejection of REDD policies and their support for the work carried out by the...
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REDD Early Movers: The fallacy of the Green Economy
REDD Early Movers – Jurisdictional REDD One of the objectives of the 2016 coup was to increase the Brazilian State’s support for...
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21 September: International Day of Struggle Against Monoculture Tree Plantations
Only available in Portuguese
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Petition: Stop all forms of abuse against women in large monoculture tree plantations
On occasion of September 21st, International day of Struggle against Tree Plantations, women from several countries from West and Central...
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Por la vida y las aguas NO más monocultivos!
(Available in Spanish and Portuguese) Declaración internacional frente a la expansión de monocultivos de árboles – Red...
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International Day of Struggle against Monoculture Tree Plantations 2017
On September 21st we celebrate the International Day of Struggle against Tree Monocultures. This date, that was launched in 2004, in...
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Port Loko Declaration: Women say “We want our lands back!”
Click here to download this declaration in English Women and the expansion of industrial oil palm plantations We, leaders of...
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Motion of rejection and solidarity with local leaders facing threats in Acre – Brazil
Press Release More than 80 organizations and individuals from all over the world sent today the letter enclosed below to relevant...
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Motion of rejection and solidarity with leaders from communities and organizations from the State of Acre in Brazil who are being pressured and threatened
July 21, 2017 Dear friends, We need your support to the motion enclosed below in solidarity with leaders from communities and...
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Urgent: Forest rights movements in India need support
Forest rights movements in India need support to prevent the commercial takeover of forests from the forest communities for monoculture...
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Declaration from the Campaign to STOP GE Tree
After IUFRO: Campaign Denounces Violence of Timber Industry “Get the forestry corporations out of UdeC” & “Ciao IUFRO” Photo:...
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Xapuri Declaration, May 28, 2017
We, forest dwellers, rubber tappers, Apurinã, Huni Kui, Jaminawa, Manchineri and Shawadawa indigenous people, members of supportive...
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FAO reply received on March 28, 2017
Dear Guadalupe, My name is Guilherme and I’m the coordinator of the Civil Society and Producer Organizations Team in FAO’s Unit of...
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Indonesia: Proposed laws threaten to reinstate corporate control over agrodiversity
In 2012, the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Indonesia annulled key Articles of a 1992 Law on Plant Cultivation Systems. These...
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Organizaciones piden a la FAO que revea su definición de bosques
Las organizaciones de la sociedad civil que firman este comunicado, junto con el Movimiento de los Trabajadores Rurales Sin Tierra (MST)...
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Press Release: FAO definition must recognize that plantations are not forests!
Press Release March 21, 2017 FAO definition must recognize that plantations are not forests! On 21 March, the International Day of...
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Support the letter urging FAO to revise its forest definition!
Dear friends, March 21st, the International Day of Forests, is around the corner! As you may recall, on that day we will be sending a...
Read MorePress release: A petition delivered to the Mozambique government and tree plantations companies urging them to give the land back to communities
On September 30, a petition was delivered with 12,323 signatures from several national and international organisations, as well as from...
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No to Monsanto! No to Poisons! Industrial Tree Plantations and Agrotoxics
For decades, The World Rainforest Movement has been denouncing the many ways in which industrial tree plantations directly cause continued...
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An open letter to the FAO launched on September 21st, International Day of Struggle against Tree Monocultures
Dear Friends, Today, September 21st, marks the International Day of Struggle Against Tree Plantations. On this day, as part of the actions...
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How does the FAO Forest definition harm people and forests? An open letter to the FAO
This open letter, calling on the FAO to revise its forest definition, will be sent to the FAO next March 21 when the International day of...
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India: Support forest dependent communities against plantations expansion!
WRM together with the All India Forum of Forest Movements, and the Campaign for Survival and Dignity are mobilizing against the CAF Act...
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Stop plantations expansion in Mozambique!
updated on September 22 Last week we asked your support for communities in Mozambique who are facing rapid expansion of timber monoculture...
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Civil Society Resistance Against Aviation Grows – 38 Organizations Call for Real Solutions Against Climate Change
The aviation sector is the world’s fastest growing greenhouse gas emittor and one of the most polluting sectors. Nevertheless, no real...
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Global Action “Justice for Berta Caceres” – June 15, 2016
To all organizations, social and popular movements and to the civil society of the world:...
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Correspondence with the World Bank Regarding Berta Cáceres and Large Dams
On May 11th 2016, more than 300 organizations from around the world sent a letter to Dr. Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank, to...
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Final Statement of the Berta Cáceres Lives International Peoples’ Summit
In this land of over 500 years of struggle, with the sound of free-flowing rivers, the strength of mountains, barrios and villages, the...
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Executive Summary Report of the International Mission “Justice for Berta Caceres”
The International Mission “Justice for Berta Cáceres Flores”, composed of 15 parliamentarians, jurists and...
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International Mission ‘Justice for Berta Cáceres’ expresses its concern in relation to theUnited Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
La Esperanza, 19 March 2016. The International Mission “Justice for Berta Cáceres” that maintains its activities these days...
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Justice for the COPINH, the family of Berta Cáceres and Gustavo Castro
Press Release, Mexico, March 9, 2016 Early in the morning on Thursday March 3rd, our Honduran comrade Berta Cáceres and Mexican Gustavo...
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COPINH: Denuncia urgente del 06 marzo 2016
Only available in Spanish. El Consejo Cívico de Organizaciones Populares e Indígenas de Honduras COPINH exige una investigación con...
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WRM’s message of solidarity on the assassination of Bertha, for Gustavo Castro protection and non-criminalization of COPINH
Statement and call for urgent action: Berta Cáceres, coordinator of the National Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of...
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International condemnation of the murder of indigenous leader Bertha Cáceres in Honduras
PRESS RELEASE. To sign-on please send a message to campaign@stopcorporateimpunity.org (*) 4th March 2016, Planet Earth Berta Cáceres,...
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Urgent Action: We urge immediate protection for Gustavo Castro, injured during the assassination of Berta Cáceres
Embassy of Honduras in Mexico. Mexican Consulate in Honduras. Inter American Commission on Human Rights. Sign-on here Early this morning,...
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Peoples Mobilisation to dismantle the Architecture of Impunity and Corporate Capture
Join us in the Peoples Mobilisation to dismantle the Architecture of Impunity and the Corporate Capture of the United Nations Conference...
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WRM Statement: The climate and forest crises cannot be solved with number games and false solutions
After more than twenty UN climate conferences, the negotiations are still focused on figures and numbers, as if the climate crisis...
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The Lima Declaration: To reject REDD+ and extractive industries to confront capitalism and defend life and territories
Due to the UN climate negotiations -COP20- and the Peoples’ Summit on Climate Change, held in Lima, Peru, in December 2014, over 100...
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Press release – International Day of Struggle against Tree Monocultures
International Day of Struggle against Tree Monocultures “Plantations are not Forests” Social organizations from several countries in...
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International Declaration 21 September 2015
International Day of Struggle against Tree Monocultures Among all of the main monoculture tree plantations for industrial use such as...
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Organizations protest against the XIV FAO World Forestry Congress
On the occasion of the XIV World Forestry Congress, organized by the FAO in Durban, South Africa, between 7 and 11 September, we, members...
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Tell the United Nations: Plantations are NOT forests!
At the UN’s World Forestry Congress in Durban, South Africa, in September, policymakers, industry and others will debate the...
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To reject REDD+ and extractive industries to confront capitalism and defend life and territories
Due to the UN climate negotiations -COP20- and the Peoples’ Summit on Climate Change, held in Lima, Peru, in December 2014, over 100...
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Petition: Brazilian Gov’t Must Reject Genetically Engineered Eucalyptus Trees
By The Campaign to STOP GE Trees. Sign below to insist CTNBio not approve GMO Trees! On Thursday 5 March, the Brazilian Biosafety...
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No a la liberación del eucalipto transgénico en Brasil
Only available in Spanish. Por Alianza Biodiversidad y Red por una América Latina Libre de Transgénicos. Las mujeres del Movimiento de...
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Actions Globally Call on Brazil to Reject GMO Trees
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE New York (4 March 2015) – Organizations on four continents took action yesterday at Brazilian consulates and...
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URGENT: GE Eucalyptus to be approved in Brazil
Dear friends, As many of you will remember, last year we organized – together with various partner organizations in Brazil – a...
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Walk to ask for the cessation of the arrests and evictions of forest community member and to stop the Forest Master Plan in Thailand
On November 9th, the Northern Peasant Federation of Thailand (NPF) will be leading a walk to ask for the cessation of the arrests and...
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Indigenous Peoples Unite to Stop Genetically Engineered Trees
GE Trees: Another Form of Colonization 13 October 2014 – From the Indigenous Environmental Network and the Campaign to STOP GE...
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Tweeting against plantations – Monday 21st September
Upon the initiative of Latin American groups a tweeting session is being planned for September 21st. We invite you to join them by using...
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21 September 2014: 10th Anniversary of the International Day of Struggle against Monoculture Tree Plantations
Dismantle the power of transnational plantation corporations! There is no “smart monoculture”: Support the People’s Climate...
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Organizations from Brazil, Latin America and other continents delivered a letter to the Brazilian National Biosafty Comission
Press Release For immediate release. On the 4th of September 2014, 260 organizations from Brazil, Latin America and other continents...
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Statement in Support of the “Open Letter to CTNBio”
FuturaGene, a biotechnology firm owned by Brazilian pulp and paper company Suzano, has requested authorization from the Brazilian...
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The expansion of industrial oil palm plantations in Africa: A call for greater solidarity and action
In late 2013, a group of representatives of African, Indonesian and international NGOs met with members of La Via Campesina and the...
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PRESS RELEASE: International campaign to define Forests by their true meaning!
26 March, 2014 International campaign to define Forests by their true meaning! La Via Campesina, Friends of the Earth International, Focus...
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Three short radio spots: “Plantations are not forests”
In the framework of our campaign on the International Day of the Forests, and in colaboration with Friends of the Earth International, we...
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Open letter to FAO on the occasion of the International Day of Forests 2014
The United Nations (UN) has declared March 21st as the International Day of Forests. For us a good reason to send once again a letter...
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We need your support: Open letter to FAO on the occasion of March 21st 2014
International Day of Forests: Defining Forests by their true meaning! Dear friends, On behalf of La Via Campesina, Friends of the Earth...
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Letter sent by several NGOs to relevant UN Special Rapporteurs requesting they investigate and intervene in these cases of acts of repression and criminalisation of local organisations and activists in Cameroon
On 29 January 2014, a letter was sent by several NGOs to relevant UN Special Rapporteurs requesting they investigate and intervene in these...
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Over 100 organisations call for an end to biodiversity offsetting plans
This press release coincides with the opening of the World Forum on Natural Capital www.naturalcapitalforum.com in Edinburgh. To...
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Carta de Belem Group Statement in the context of COP 19 on Climate Change
Available in English, Spanish and Portuguese in the same file: Carta de Belem Group Statement in the context of COP 19 on Climate...
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Climate Summit: Don’t turn farmers into ‘climate smart’ carbon traders! PRESS RELEASE
Media release of La Vía Campesina | GRAIN | ETC Group. 7 November 2013. Farmers produce food, not carbon. Yet, if some of the governments...
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Statement open for signatures: No to Biodiversity Offsetting!
This statement is open for signatures from organizations, groups, networks, associations, collectives! To sign up please send an email to:...
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EU and big polluters ignore climate action – pushing to expand carbon markets at COP19 – PRESS RELEASE
Brussels, 7th November 2013. The EU aims to expand carbon markets that would benefit big polluters at the UN climate talks, COP19 in...
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Lettre à l’Institut national de la colonisation et de la réforme agraire, et à l’Institut de la colonisation et du territoire de l’État de Maranhão (Brésil), pour exiger la reconnaissance et la régularisation de la situation foncière des territoires traditionnellement occupés
La action provient de nos amis brésiliens de la région du Baixo Parnaíba, État de Maranhão. Ils nous demandent d’adhérer à...
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Lettre au président du Gabon contre la création d’un marché des services écosystémiques
La action concerne le Gabon, et elle porte sur la récente approbation d’un décret (Résolution nº 20/2013 sur le développement...
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Your support is needed: two actions being carried out by local communities
Throughout the month of September we will continue celebrating resistance to the advance of large-scale industrial tree plantations. This...
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Votre soutien est nécessaire: deux actions qui ont besoin de la solidarité et de l’appui de nous tous
Nous continuons en septembre de célébrer la résistance à l’avancée des plantations d’arbres à grande échelle. À...
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Letter to the National Institute for Colonization and Agrarian Reform and the Colonization and Land Institute of the State of Maranhão (Brazil) to demand the recognition and land tenure regularization of traditionally occupied territories
This action is being undertaken by our friends in Brazil, in the Bajo Parnaíbo region of the state of Maranhão. They have asked for our...
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Letter to be sent to the president of Gabon to express opposition to the creation of a ecosystems services market
The second action is being carried out in Gabon, in response to the recent approval of a decree (Resolution No. 20/2013 on...
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Special WRM Bulletin – September 2013
Read the full Special Bulletin here Also available (in the old site)...
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Open letter to the UN and its institutions and initiatives related to forest issues
On the occasion of March 21st, proclaimed by the UN General Assembly as International Day of the Forests (1), the World Rainforest...
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Open letter denouncing the FSC certification of Fibria Aracruz Celulose S.A.
Civil society organizations are denouncing the FSC certification of Fibria Celulose SA monoculture tree plantations by IMAFLORA, a...
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Forests by their true meaning
This short video tries to graphically illustrates how mistaken FAO’s view of forests is. We invite you to watch it, share it, download...
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Industrial oil palm plantations are not and can never be “sustainable”
Letter from organizations to the World Bank on September 21, 2010. International Day on Monoculture Tree Plantations. In May, 2010 the...
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World Bank: No more funding for oil palm plantations!
LETTER SENT TO THE WORLD BANK: Dear Sir/Madam, With reference to the World Bank meeting to be held in San José, Costa Rica on 17th to 18th...
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Statement by forestry professionals and students – Monoculture tree plantations are not forests
See here the press release Throughout the world, governments are actively promoting the expansion of large-scale monoculture tree...
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Civil society demands responsible decisions with regard of agrofuels, transgenic trees and the technology Terminator.
Press release – Two open letters addressed to the delegations taking part in MOP and COP The 9th Conference of the Parties of the...
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