Bolloré Loses Court Case in France
In 2016, a TV station in France (Channel 2) aired a report that told the story of Vincent Bolloré, a businessman who heads the oil palm...
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Tanzania: call for international support to stop intimidation against Maasai villagers as they take the government to court
A report from Oakland Institute documents in detail the many rights abuses faced by the Maasai in the Ngorongoro and Loliondo regions of...
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Mobilization to denounce the abuses of the SOCFIN company, which has the Bolloré Group as major shareholder
Hundreds of people who live in the vicinity of SOCAPALM and SAFACAM plantations went to SOCAPALM headquarters in Bonanjo, Douala, Cameroon,...
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Defending Indigenous Peoples in Voluntary Isolation in Brazil and Peru
In support of indigenous organizations in Peru, the Indigenous Missionary Council of Brazil (CIMI) expresses great concern for and stands...
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India: Odisha government must not ignore forest rights claims on POSCO project site
The Odisha government gave more than 800 hectares of land to the South Korean steel giant POSCO for building a power plant, jeopardizing...
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Agua Zarca in Honduras: The Banks’ Trap
Since 2013, the Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH) has demanded the withdrawal of the banks—FMO...
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Call for action: Help activists stop large-scale logging of Europe’s last lowlands forest
After years of efforts to limit the scale of logging and increase the amount of protected areas in the Białowieża Forest, Poland, the...
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Philippines: Women call to stop the bombings in Marawi and to revoke Martial Law in Mindanao
Women leaders from several national, regional and international organizations called for truth about what’s happening in Marawi and...
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Honduras: Murder attempts against the General Coordinator and a community leader of COPINH
The Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH, for its Spanish acronym) denounces to the national and...
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Panama: The historic struggle against the Barro Blanco Dam
Ten years after construction started on the Barro Blanco hydroelectric dam in western Panama, members of the indigenous NgäbeBuglé...
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Support independent journalism! The Green Economy and its impacts on peoples and territories
In recent decades, many communities have been displaced from their ancestral lands to make way for “Green Economy”...
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Uruguay free of mega-mining!
In December 2013, the Uruguay Free of Mega-mining Movement was formed in order to mobilize the public around the proposal to start...
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Peasant mobilizations in Cameroon
Socapalm and Safacam are two companies controlled by Socfin, a multinational agribusiness specialized in the cultivation of oil palm and...
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“Conservationists, are you listening?” Baka Indigenous Peoples in Cameroon
In southeast Cameroon, Baka Indigenous Peoples and their neighbours continue to be illegally evicted in the name of conservation, most...
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Update on POSCO’s harassments in Odisha India
Despite India’s National Green Tribunal statement on early April affirming that POSCO’s Environmental Clearance is valid only up to...
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International Condemnation: Honduras – End the violence and death against the peasant-indigenous movement
La Vía Campesina denounces the grave criminalization taking place in Honduras today in the form of prisons, repression and the...
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Mozambique: Denunciation of the partnership between WWF and ProSavana
The “No to ProSavana Campaign” have been resisting the implementation of ProSavana in the Nacala Corridor of Mozambique, a partnership...
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“The Mauzes”: defending territories and life
Since joining Indonesia officially in 1969, Papua had only seven oil palm companies until 2005. In 2014, the number jumped to 21 companies,...
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Defending the commons: news from the Nyeli movement
Nyeli, a platform for the international movement for food sovereignty, launched a new issue of its newsletter last December. This time...
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International Rights of Nature Tribunal offers Earth-driven, not market-driven, solutions to climate change
The third International Tribunal for the Rights of Nature took place in Paris in parallel to the UN climate talks. Basing its judgements on...
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Cameroon: WWF complicit in tribal people’s abuse
The NGO Survival International uncovered serious abuses of Baka “Pygmies” in southeast Cameroon, at the hands of anti-poaching squads...
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Peru: The Matsés, last shamans of the Amazon rainforest, fight back against transnational oil company
The Matsés indigenous people are fighting back to stop Pacific Rubiales Energy, a Canadian oil and gas company, from destroying their...
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India plans huge palm oil expansion, puts forests at risk
While Malaysia and Indonesia produce over 85% of the world’s palm oil, India is its largest importer. To boost palm cultivation, the...
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December 3: International Day Against Pesticide Use
The date was chosen by the Pesticide Action Network to commemorate the 30,000 people killed as a result of the Bhopal disaster in India in...
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Gendering Peasant Movements, Gendering Food Sovereignty
A problem peasant women face is invisibility in the feminist and women’s movements. A second problem is the weakness with which the food...
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Brazil: Federal Prosecutor’s Office upholds injunction barring BNDES financing for Fibria Celulose, a company certified by the FSC
The Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office (Ministério Público Federal or MPF) of Brazil has ruled to suspend financing from the...
Read MoreIndia: The Uttarakhand tragedy is not natural
India Climate Justice, a collective of social movements, trade unions, other organizations and individuals, has issued on last June 25 a...
Read MoreMozambique: Farmers call for resistance to land-grabbing
Members of the National Peasants Union, known as UNAC, in Mozambique, and representatives of international nongovernmental organizations...
Read MoreOpen letter on EU biofuels policy
More than 100 organisations (including a number of coalitions representing many more groups) signed up to an Open Letter to EU decision...
Read MoreEcuador: Vigil for Yasuní
After the Ecuadorian president announced plans to carry out an evaluation on securing financing for the Yasuní-ITT project, reflecting a...
Read MoreFourth March in Defence of the Land, Water and Life in Uruguay
Some 20,000 people participated in the 4th National March in Defence of the Land, Water and Life held on May 10, 2013 in Montevideo,...
Read MoreHelp Stop Genetically Engineered Eucalyptus Trees
From May 26-June 1, the International Tree Biotechnology 2013 Conference took place in Asheville, NC. This conference is a gathering of...
Read MoreUnifying the struggle for the Amazon in Brazil
On May 2, some 200 indigenous peoples, riverine communities and fishermen joined in a historic moment of unity and struggle for the Amazon...
Read MoreStop Destroying Yasuni Rainforest
The Huaorani, the last known group of Indigenous peoples still living in voluntary isolation in Ecuador in the Amazonian area of Ecuador...
Read MoreProtest in India against continued State repression on anti-POSCO people’s movement
In the continuum of brutal attacks on the struggle against forcible land acquisition for a POSCO steel plant in Odisha, India, the most...
Read MoreTake action for indigenous rights in Sarawak
Tens of thousands of indigenous people from Sarawak, Malaysia, are threatened with forced displacement as the Sarawak government moves...
Read MoreSolidarity with the community of Cumbe, Ceará, Brazil against their criminalization
Communities and International Redmanglar member organizations expressed their solidarity with the people and community of Cumbe, Ceará,...
Read MoreNigeria: Environmentalist threatened for his denounces against Wilmar’s oil palm plantations
The Singapore based agribusiness giant Wilmar – is expanding its operations in Africa. It already has approximately 50,000 hectares...
Read MoreGabon: New study warns of impacts of the expansion of oil palm and rubber tree plantations
Tropical rainforests cover 85% of the total land area in Gabon. They are home to an immense diversity of species, on which some 300,000...
Read MoreLiberia: Action against the expansion of oil palm plantations by Sime Darby and Golden Veroleum
The three leading Liberian civil society organizations Sustainable Development Institute (SDI), Save My Future Foundation (SAMFU), and...
Read MoreChile: Suspension of work on Pascua Lama mine project
A resolution adopted by the Chilean government’s National Geology and Mining Service ordered a temporary but total stoppage of drilling...
Read MoreBolivia: Letter from the Pan-Amazonian Peoples
The 6th Pan-Amazon Social Forum was held on December 1 in Cobija, in Bolivia’s Amazon region, on the triple border between Peru, Brazil...
Read MoreEcuador: Ancestral peoples of the mangrove forests attacked and evicted
At 9:00 a.m. on December 4, uniformed officers of the National Police set fire to the homes and crops of residents and families in Bilsa,...
Read MoreIndonesia: RSPO fails to take action against a company bulldozing ancestral forests and perpetrating human rights abuses
The certifying body Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) has failed to act against a company looking for RSPO’s seal which has...
Read MoreSenegal: Final declaration of the Family Farms International Forum
Representatives of the CNCR member farmers’ and producers’ organizations, as well as other national platforms member of the...
Read MoreLaos: Social activist Sombath Somphone is missing
Sombath Somphone, a respected social activist winner of the international Ramon Magsaysay award in 2005 for community leadership and...
Read MoreStatement of Asia Social Movements on Climate Change at the Asia Social Movements Assembly
On 26-30 November 2012, the 5th World Social Forum on Migration (WSFM) was held in Manila, Philippines. The WSFM is one of the thematic...
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Cameroon: Major impacts of oil palm agribusiness on food sovereignty and livelihoods
In a context of massive land concessions in the country over the last five years – be it the expansion of existing...
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Indonesia: Farmers struggle against industrial oil palm and acacia plantations in defense of their land and food sovereignty
The struggle in Geragai District Up to 2011, a total of 18 companies had licenses over forest areas for a total of 663,809 ha distributed...
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Portugal: Petition to protest the “eucalyptization” of the country
This past September 21, to mark the International Day Against Monoculture Tree Plantations, the Portuguese environmental...
Read MorePhillipines: Oil palm company A. Brown grabs Higaonon indigenous people’s lands
The Philippine A. Brown Company, Inc. is engaged in the business of oil palm plantation development and milling. In 2010, the company...
Read MoreGabon: Resisting Olam land grabbing for oil palm plantations
Oil palm has traditionally been part of the culture of West and Central African communities, who have planted it on their own lands or...
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Chile: Campaign against tree monoculture expansion
In Chile, the onslaught of big forestry business groups backed by the state means more than 3 million hectares covered with industrial...
Read MoreBelo Monte dam site occupied!
On October 27, hundreds of indigenous men and women, fisherfolk and riverine community members occupied the construction site of one of the...
Read MoreSurvey on the WRM Bulletin
At WRM we have been publishing our monthly electronic bulletin since 1997. It is currently sent in four different languages to more than...
Read MoreMontevideo Declaration: STOP the expansion of monoculture tree plantations!
This past September 21, on the occasion of the International Day Against Monoculture Tree Plantations, representatives of social...
Read MoreWRM is on Facebook
You can keep up with what’s happening at WRM on Facebook athttps://www.facebook.com/WorldRainforestMovement Among other things, check...
Read MoreOn the International Day of Struggle against Tree Plantations let’s define the forest by its true meaning
On September 21st several activities will be coordinated around the world to celebrate the International Day of Struggle against Tree...
Read MoreBrazil: Mato Grosso do Sul – The new eucalyptus frontier
The region of Brazil, and perhaps the world, where monoculture eucalyptus plantations and pulp production are expanding most rapidly is in...
Read MoreTransgenic trees: The industry race is on
The forestry industry’s endless pursuit of bigger profits has led to the growing homogenization of trees cultivated for timber, pulp and...
Read MoreFSC continues to lose credibility
The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) was established in 1993 to certify “socially beneficial, economically viable and environmentally...
Read MoreUN climate talks: more carbon trade, no emission reduction
The UN climate talks concluded their second session of 2011 in Bonn in June without addressing the key issue of reducing climate pollution...
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Open letter from scientists to the FAO
This year has been declared the International Year of Forests by the United Nations. In response, WRM has initiated a campaign that...
Read MoreWomen voices in the climate change negotiations
This month a new UN round of climate change negotiations took place in Bangkok – the first session after the Cancun conference last...
Read More“Forest in exhaustion”: a new trick to subsidize monoculture tree plantations
“Forest in exhaustion” stems from a controversial proposal by Brazil under the UNFCCC negotiations in Poznan. The interest of Brazil to...
Read MoreLet’s say it in every language
In our first bulletin of the year, in light of the fact that 2011 has been declared the International Year of Forests, we shared with you...
Read MoreUruguay: Tree plantation workers and agrotoxic spraying
One of the promises made by plantation companies to gain support – from the government and from local communities – is that they will...
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South Africa: Research shows conclusive results on the impacts of tree plantations on water
At a time when water resources are becoming scarce and ever more threatened by global warming and climate change, a research carried out in...
Read MoreChikweti plantations in Mozambique: Will the FSC continue certifying the uncertifiable?
The FSC (Forest Stewardship Council)website has announced that the company Chikweti Forests of Niassa, which operates in the province of...
Read MoreBrazil: Sustainable on paper – the eucalyptus plantations of Bahia
Endless rows of tree trunks pass before our eyes behind the car window. In the utmost south of the Brazilian state Bahia, eucalyptus...
Read MoreBiochar: ”Sustainable charcoal” from 556 million hectares of plantations?
Two previous WRM Bulletins (January and September 2009) reported on the “biochar” concept – the idea of producing charcoal on a...
Read MoreClimate activists facing trials in Denmark
During the climate summit held in Copenhagen (COP 15) in December 2009, thousands of people from around the world gathered there to...
Read MoreEcuador: en defensa del manglar
Corría el año 1998 cuando los Pueblos Ancestrales del Ecosistema Manglar del Ecuador decidieron unir sus esfuerzos en una gran campaña...
Read MoreGuatemala: minería de hierro amenaza manglares del Pacífico
Si vemos un mapa de la cobertura forestal de la república de Guatemala, podremos observar que a lo largo de la línea costera del...
Read MoreFree Trade Agreements with the European Union in Latin America: A path to the loss of sovereignty and territories
A group of Latin American social organizations (1) met in Montevideo to examine the Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) that the European Union...
Read MoreKenya: The Forest Service to the rescue of eucalyptus
Concerns have been raised in Kenya about the high water consumption of eucalyptus trees, which in 2009 led the country’s Environment...
Read MoreThe Pulp Invasion continues: Companies linked to Asia Pulp and Paper setting up in Vietnam
Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) is one of the most controversial and destructive paper companies on the planet. The company has cleared vast...
Read MoreMozambique: Video and Publication on the expansion of tree plantations
The government of Mozambique is in the process of expanding large-scale monocultures of alien, fast-growing tree species, mainly...
Read MoreWorld Bank: No more funding for oil palm plantations!
In August 2009, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), and shortly thereafter the wider World Bank Group (WBG) of which it is part...
Read MoreBolivia: a peoples’ conference on climate change – a forum for changing course
Following the resounding and anticipated failure of the United Nations Convention on Climate Change held in Copenhagen in December 2009,...
Read MoreGlobal Sign-On Campaign against REDD
Criticism of the ineffective and unjust solutions to climate change which under carbon compensation and trading pretend to continue...
Read MoreREDD: Breathing new life into the scam of carbon trading
Reduced emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) is based on a simple idea: Making forests worth more alive than dead....
Read MoreRelevant statements for addressing the climate crisis
Even when everything would seem to indicate that the future of the planet’s climate is in the hands of a group of clowns, the possibility...
Read MorePosco: Destroying forests in India and establishing carbon sink plantations in Uruguay
Uruguay and the Republic of Korea have recently signed an Agreement for Investment Promotion and Protection which, according to Uruguayan...
Read MoreNorthern paper over-consumption promoting green deserts in the South
World demand for paper and paperboard is expected to grow by 2% to 3% annually in the long term, with significant growth potential for Asia...
Read MoreFSC’s greenwashing of tree monocultures: Evidence provided by the Brazilian Pulp and Paper Industry itself
For over a decade, the World Rainforest Movement has been denouncing that -by certifying large scale tree plantations- the FSC is...
Read MoreIndonesia: Indigenous Peoples oppose acacia plantations on their customary lands
The indigenous people of Teluk Meranti in the Kampar Peninsula, Riau, Sumatra, are resisting efforts by a pulp and paper company to take...
Read MoreIndonesia: Call for suspension of World Bank (IFC) lending to oil palm
An internal audit has revealed that the World Bank’s private sector arm – the International Finance Corporation (IFC) – has allowed...
Read MoreMalaysia: Indigenous Peoples call for a moratorium on large-scale tree plantations
On the World Indigenous Peoples Day – 9th August 2009 – the Malaysian Indigenous Peoples Organisations Coalition called on for...
Read MoreMeeting of the Latin American network against monoculture tree plantations
On 1 August 2009, members of the Latin American Network against Monoculture Tree Plantations (RECOMA) met in the locality of Villa Serrana,...
Read MoreBrazil: FSC greenwashing of eucalyptus plantations is strongly questioned and a warning made vis-à-vis their advance in Piaui
One year ago, Judson Barros, Coordinator of the Piaui Environmental Network stated that “the south of Piaui has been destroyed, its...
Read MoreLaos: Chinese company Sun Paper plans eucalyptus monocultures
A Chinese company called Shandong Sun Paper is planning to establish 100,000 hectares of eucalyptus plantations in Savannakhet province in...
Read MoreMexico: Oil palm business at the expense of the poor
Since 2004 the Mexican government has been promoting the expansion of oil palm plantations. Presently there are 9 oil extraction plants in...
Read MoreStatement on Tree Plantations from participants at recent Forest Movement Europe meeting
The Forest Movement Europe (FME) is an informal network of more than 45 NGOs from12 European countries. It is a loose movement with no...
Read MoreGE trees: when scientists mutate into publicists
The Convention on Biological Diversity’s (CBD) mandate is to protect the world’s biodiversity. Strong campaigning from an increasing...
Read MoreThe gaping chasm between climate science and climate negotiations
The distance between climate science and climate negotiations was dramatically illustrated at the UN climate meeting in Bonn earlier this...
Read MoreGenderCC urges to really stop deforestation, not promote carbon offsetting
The June 2009 Climate Talks in Bonn served as the scenario where the new push to include forest preservation within climate change...
Read MoreDeclaration of Heredia on Climate, Forests and Plantations
Between 24 and 28 March 2009, in Heredia, Costa Rica, the World Rainforest Movement (WRM) brought together civil society organisations from...
Read MoreBath tubs, forests, carbon trading and climate change
In 2008, the value of the carbon market increased by 84 per cent, with total transactions increasing from US$64 billion in 2007 to US$118...
Read MoreCharcoal disguised as “biochar” sold as another profitable climate tech-fix
According to a growing, vocal and very well-connected group of scientists, entrepreneurs and lobbyists, the best if not the only way of...
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