Cambodia: Action against land-grabbing
A community petition on Avaaz.org calls for action against companies that subsidized by a European Union trade scheme, forcibly displace...
Read MoreMozambique: Action in defense of peasants’ right to food
The organization Fian International – for the right to adequate food, began an action in October 2012 to end on 30 April 2013 in...
Read MoreBrazil: First National Meeting of the Peasant Women’s Movement
Close to 3,000 members of the Peasant Women’s Movement (MMC), hailing from 23 different states, gathered on February 18-21 for the first...
Read MoreAttac France urges EDF to abandon its lawsuits against climate justice activists in the UK
Last October, sixteen activists of the climate justice group “No Dash for gas” occupied for a week two chimneys of the EDF...
Read MoreIndonesia: Farmers protest against eviction caused by Debt Nature Swap (DNS)
About 40 farmers of a La Via Campesina member organization (Serikat Petani Indonesia) from Jambi province protested in front of the Germany...
Read MoreBrazil: Support the Indigenous Cause of the Guaraní-Kaiowa
The Brazilian organizations Juízes para a Democracia (Judges for Democracy) and CIMI have launched a petition addressed to various...
Read MoreIndonesia: Court victory against oil palm company
The state administrative High Court in Medan, has decided in favor of the organization WALHI, cancelling administrative decisions that led...
Read MoreBurma/Myanmar: Letter of Global Solidarity against land grabs
The “Second Commercial Farm Asia”, a fair that brings together corporate investors and governments from Myanmar and other...
Read MoreGlobal Campaign to dismantle Corporate Power
As part of the People’s Summit during Rio +20 a Global Campaign Against Transnationals was launched, under the slogan “Dismantle...
Read MoreLooking ahead for agrarian reform and the defense of land and territory
Allies from 26 countries in Asia, Africa, America and Europe have met in West Sumatra, Indonesia, from July 10 to 15, 2012,convened by La...
Read MoreCampaign against palm oil giant FELDA
Rainforest Rescue has started a campaign to demand Deutsche Bank to dissociate itself from the Malaysian palm oil giant FELDA Global...
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Greenwash Gold winner 2012: Mining company Rio Tinto
Some of the world’s most disreputable corporations – like Rio Tinto, Dow and BP – are providing sponsorship to the Olympics Games,...
Read MoreBe alert! Don’t allow tree plantations to be called forests
Wikipedia – the free encyclopedia built collaboratively – is an increasing reference even for academic use. We can have a voice there...
Read MoreLend your voice to the forest!
At WRM we have been opposed to FAO’s definition of forests for many years. We believe that it actually serves as an indirect cause of...
Read MoreAnálisis crítico de “La silvicultura y el agua: Ciencia, Dogmas, Desafíos” (Walter de Paula Lima, 2010)
Recientemente se acaba de difundir un nuevo trabajo del Profesor Walter de Paula Lima (WPL) titulado “A silvicultura e a água: Ciência,...
Read MoreCameroun: un village résiste à la tentative de Socapalm de planter des palmiers à huile dans ses terres
Au milieu d’un désert vert de 60 000 hectares de plantations de palmiers à huile se trouvent 150 hectares de terres agricoles et...
Read MoreBénin : la “modernisation” de la production d’huile de palme marginalise les femmes
La production d’huile de palme est séculaire au Bénin et elle s’est toujours faite surtout par des méthodes artisanales. Ce sont...
Read MoreBrasil: Modificações do Código Florestal para benefício dos latifundiário
Apesar da grande campanha ideológica das elites brasileiras em busca de apresentar o agronegócio como uma agricultura moderna, as...
Read MoreBrasil: Comunidades quilombolas reconvertem eucaliptales
A comunidade quilombola de São Domingos, tradicionalmente instalada no norte do Espírito Santo, viveu um momento histórico nos dias 26 e...
Read MoreHonduras: empapada en sangre también por la palma de aceite – 3 nuevas víctimas
Honduras, que fue uno de los principales productores de granos básicos de Centroamérica, ha pasado a producir la mitad de sus...
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What is carbon trading for?
Patrick Birley, the Chief Executive of the European Climate Exchange, knows a thing or two about carbon trading. He should do. He claims...
Read MoreClimate change policy – does gender make a difference?
International negotiations about global climate protection have been slow, delivering meagre results. The debate began over 20 years ago,...
Read MoreWilful ignorance: FAO and industrial tree plantations
The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation has long worked on behalf of the plantation industry. One of FAO’s strategies to support the...
Read MoreFSC: Increasingly alone in the path of tree plantation certification
Up to last year, the Forest Stewardship Council had certified 8.6 million hectares of industrial tree plantations despite ample evidence...
Read MoreNew WRM Information tools
WRM has produced four new briefings intended to serve as tools for action. The briefing “Ethanol from cellulose: A technology that could...
Read MoreFSC: Stop certifying monoculture tree plantations!
Asia Pulp and Paper is probably the most controversial paper company in the world. It has destroyed vast areas of forest in Sumatra and...
Read MoreBrazil: The pulp and paper companies’ “green international quality standard labels”
Approximately five years ago, Aracruz obtained a “green” quality label for its plantations in the extreme south of Bahia. This is a...
Read MoreOffsetting Democracy
Carbon trading and offsets distract attention from the wider, systemic changes and collective political action that needs to be taken in...
Read MoreThe Convention on Biodiversity, GM trees and paper consumption
In March 2006, in Curitiba, Brazil, the parties to the Convention on Biodiversity (CBD) discussed the issue of genetically modified (GM)...
Read MoreThe CBD and the Need to Conserve Real Forests, Not Fake Forests
The main threat to the world’s forests is not that they will all be cut in the coming decades. There is an even larger threat; that...
Read MoreRome meeting to assess implementation of the CBD Programme of Work on Protected Areas
Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) Parties, intergovernmental agencies, conservation NGOs, indigenous peoples and local communities,...
Read MoreIndonesia: The impacts of oil palm plantations on women
Twenty-two women from provinces throughout Kalimantan and Sumatra gathered in Bogor from 22nd to 24th May to discuss the effects that oil...
Read MorePapua New Guinea: Life can be hard for women in oil palm plantations
Large scale oil palm plantations have proved to be a very bad development for local people in PNG, and especially women for whom they have...
Read MoreSolomon Islands: Women wounded by logging company for defending their land
Logging operations of Omex Industry Limited in Boloboe land on Vella La Vella island, Western Province of the country, have long been a...
Read MoreSolomon Islands: Logging as the main factor of sexual abuse of girls
Logging in Southern countries has proved that it may collect big export revenues for governments and huge profits for companies, but for...
Read MoreProposed changes to CDM rules will give incentive to clear forest and provide subsidy for plantations industry
To the disappointment of some and the relief of others, tree plantation projects, particularly those involving large-scale monocultures,...
Read MoreBrazil: Third V&M’s go under CDM for their tree plantations
Registered on last January 22, the “Project 0143 : UTE Barreiro S.A. Renewable Electricity Generation Project” of Vallourec &...
Read MoreEmissions trading schemes promoted by G8 defer genuine climate action and generate massive profits for the largest polluters
The hegemony of the G8 in international forums such as the United Nations Framework Convention of Climate Change means that global climate...
Read MoreHow credible is carbon compensation?
Eindhoven Airport in the Netherlands has claimed to be the first airport in Europe where passengers as of May 2007 can compensate emissions...
Read MoreObscenity of carbon trading
If we want to curb climate change, carbon trading won’t do. In 1992, an infamous leaked memo from Lawrence Summers, who was at the...
Read MoreThe EU’s dead-end approach to climate-proofing Europe’s transport sector: The More Gas You Guzzle the Greener You Are
Biofuels are flavour of the month for car-makers and politicians keen to be seen as green without directly addressing the problem of...
Read MoreFacing the biofuel rush: Land must be used to feed people, not cars
The present eagerness of the European Union to favour the use and import of biofuel as an alternative to fossil fuels has risen serious...
Read MoreSign-on letter to CBD urging a ban on genetically modified trees
At its last Conference of the Parties (COP8), the Convention on Biological Diversity adopted a very important Decision (VIII/19),...
Read MoreMumbai-Porto Alegre Forest Initiative: Linking the struggle against plantations with alternative local uses of forests
The Mumbai-Porto Alegre (MPA) Forest Initiative is intended to serve as a platform for the joining of forces and for the building of...
Read MoreLaos: Did The World Bank Fudge Figures to Justify Nam Theun 2?
When the World Bank approved US$270 million in grants and guarantees for the controversial one thousand megawatt Nam Theun 2 (NT2)...
Read MorePeru: IDB funds the Camisea gas project that endangers biological and cultural forest diversity
Camisea is the greatest energy project in the history of Peru. This project involves the extraction of natural gas in an area known as Lot...
Read MoreUruguay: Campaign against IFC funding of pulp mill projects
Uruguay is in the sights of the pulp industry. The Finnish multinational company, Metsa Botnia and the Spanish company Ence are proposing...
Read MoreThe Impact of Protected Areas on Twa Women
The Twa are the indigenous people of the Great Lakes region of Central Africa, inhabiting Burundi, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo...
Read MorePachamama: The Impact of the Commodification of Nature on Women
Pachamama is a Quechua term, which stands, basically, for Mother Earth. The Quechua, an Indigenous People living in a large part of the...
Read MoreWorld Bank Carbon Finance in Brazil: New funding source for industrial tree plantations
The World Bank Prototype Carbon Fund’s (PCF) Plantar project has been heavily criticized by NGOs and civil society movements ever since...
Read MoreIndonesia: Going for business with the CDM
The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of the Kyoto Protocol under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change may be totally...
Read MoreLaos: EcoSecurities helps ADB provide carbon subsidies to the pulp industry
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has big plans for plantations in Laos. World Rainforest Movement has obtained a leaked report of a recent...
Read MoreWorld Bank Carbon Finance Funds unlikely to contribute to poverty alleviation in Uganda
Earlier this year, several officials of the Ugandan government received large concessions for land suitable for afforestation and...
Read MoreThe alternative forest treaty: NGOs complied with their commitments
It is worth remembering that during the 1992 Earth Summit (or United Nations Conference on Environment and Development) two processes took...
Read MoreMANGROVE RELATED NETWORKS
The Industrial Shrimp Action Network, ISA Net, was formed in 1997, to conduct campaigns with and assist non-governmental organizations from...
Read MoreNews from the International Secretariat
Ricardo Carrere visited in October the states of Espirito Santo and Bahia invited by CIMI (Conselho Indigenista Missionario). During his...
Read MoreNews from the International Secretariat
On September 17th and in the framework of an international campaign we addressed Mr Hiroshi Yasuda, Governor of the Export-Import Bank of...
Read MoreCentral African Conference on Forests
As informed in WRM bulletin 11, the second meeting of the Conference on Central African Moist-Forest Ecosystems (CEFDHAC) took place in...
Read MoreSarawak: Dayak Ibans sue the police
Seven Dayak Iban natives from Rumah Bugah, Tubai, Ukong, Limbang are suing the Police for wrongful arrest and baseless imprisonment. The...
Read More“Reform” times in Indonesia?
The ban on the activities of three environmental NGOs -LBBJ; Plasma and SHK Kaltim- in Kutai district, East Kalimantan has caused general...
Read MoreSawit Watch: an Indonesian network against oil palm plantations
Oil palm (know as “Sawit” in Indonesia) is an increasing problem for people and the environment in that country. In May this...
Read MoreThe struggle against Indorayon in Indonesia
On July 20 over 1,000 security forces arrived to break through a blockade set up by villagers and students at Indorayon’s paper and...
Read MoreVietnam: good old incentives for plantations
It seems amazing that tree plantations can be promoted all over the world as a profitable activity, while at the same time they need to...
Read MoreThe “Mexican version” of pulpwood plantations
The increased activities of the “maquiladora” industry (installed within Mexico and based on imported inputs and external...
Read MoreAracruz: some polite suggestions from a forester
We received the following message from Brazilian forester Jackson Roberto Eleoterio (from the University of Sao Paulo), which we...
Read MoreBrazil: NGOs oppose WWF-World Bank’s 10% Campaign
We, the undersigned Non-Governmental Organizations, wish to express our concern with both the content and the potential consequences of the...
Read MoreColombia: monoculture tree plantations promoted in the Andes
As in a number of other countries, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) is now promoting the development of pulpwood plantations in...
Read MoreEcuador: Greenpeace action to protect remaining mangroves
31 July 1998. Ecuador’s Minister of Environment has promised Greenpeace that she will take steps to secure a permanent ban on...
Read MoreVenezuela: highway blockade against electric transmission line
Indigenous peoples of the Imataca and Gran Sabana regions began a blockade of the only highway between Venezuela and Brazil, to protest...
Read MoreTanzania: mangroves menaced by aquaculture project
The Rufiji Delta in South Eastern Tanzania is one of the largest blocks of mangrove forests in East and Southern Africa. It covers an area...
Read MoreNigeria: NGO nominated for the Sophie Prize
The Sophie Foundation, an organization based in Norway, has nominated the Nigerian NGO Environmental Rights Action, for the Sophie Prize...
Read MoreVillagers arbitrarily arrested in Thailand
For the past five years, the small community of the village of Pang Daeng, in the mountainous northern province of Chiang Mai, Thailand,...
Read MoreThe truth about Rio Tinto
At a meeting held last February in Johannesburg, South Africa, a group of trade unionists from 14 countries announced the launch of an...
Read MoreIndonesia: local people burn oil palm plantation company’s base camp
A land dispute between local farmers from Kuala Batee and the oil palm plantation company PT Cemerlang Abdi has erupted into violent...
Read MoreCanada: Victory of indigenous peoples in court
Daishowa Inc. is a Canadian corporation with business premises in the provinces of Quebec, Ontario and Manitoba, that operates in the...
Read MoreEcuador: Sign-on letter to protect UNESCO reserve from oil exploitation
The following includes a description of the situation facing Yasuni National Park, a sign-on letter and an appeal to remain in contact with...
Read MoreSuriname: gold, coke and malaria
by Iwan Brave The Venetiaan administration sold the rainforest bit by bit. But the current Bouterse minded NDP government is having a...
Read MoreIndigenous communities against logging company in Bolivia
Bolivian forests are among the richest in the world in terms of biodiversity, with more than 2500 species of trees. Protected areas include...
Read MoreVenezuela: National Meeting in Defence of the Gran Sabana and Sierra de Imataca
The Penon indigenous peoples of Venezuela are inviting to a meeting which will be held at Kumarakapay (San Francisco de Yuruani), la Gran...
Read MoreUruguay: anti-pulpwood plantation movement on the rise
The situation in Uruguay, where Parliament unanimously passed a forestry law in 1987 to promote industrial tree plantations with almost no...
Read MoreCentral African Conference on Forests
The second meeting of the Conference on Central African Moist-Forest Ecosystems (CEFDHAC) will take place in Bata, Equatorial Guinea from 8...
Read MoreIntegration can aggravate deforestation
A group of NGO representatives from many countries of the region met in the Environmental Forum of the Peoples’ Summit of the...
Read MoreThailand: the struggle of forest peoples to remain in the forest
There has been, over the course of the last decades in Thailand, many developments concerning the rights of the tribal peoples found...
Read MoreMultinational mining in The Philippines
A group of fourty community activists from around Asia and the Pacific have recently held a meeting in Baguio City to review the impact of...
Read MoreNicaragua: indigenous communities win battle against Korean logging company
A large meeting took place last February in Rosita, a village on the Atlantic coast of Nicaragua, attended by representatives of indigenous...
Read MoreMexico: Mangroves vs. Shrimp Farming and Golf Courses
The municipality of San Blas, Nayarit, Mexico is witnessing with great concern how the overdevelopment that has taken place in nearby...
Read MoreChile: World Bank acknowledges mistake and impacts in the Bio Bio Pangue dam
In a press conference during the recent Summit of the Americas held in Santiago, Chile, Mr. James Wolfensohn, President of the World Bank,...
Read MoreRoraima fires: more than meets the eye
We have received the following contribution from Leonardo Acurero, through our Venezuelan friends from AMIGRANSA, related to the actors...
Read MoreChile: native forests cleared for plantations
One of the more widely publicized arguments for the promotion of industrial tree plantations says that fast growing plantations help to...
Read MoreGood news from South Africa
The Kruger National Park is to be enlarged by 5,000 hectares, while by the same agreement recently concluded, the Makuleke community...
Read MoreNigeria: Shell sets forest ablaze
News of huge forest fires -as the ones that affected Indonesia and those that are spreading in Roraima in the Brazilian Amazon- are...
Read MoreIndonesia: Dayak’s tour seeking support
A group of Dayaks recently toured Australia to promote solidarity with their struggle for land rights and compensation from...
Read MoreIndonesia: Timber empires collapsing
The timber empires of Bob Hasan and others are crumbling amid the economic crisis in Indonesia. A third of the country’s timber companies...
Read MoreThailand: forest defenders arrested
Kanchanaburi March 6, 1998: Sulak Sivaraksa and some 50 students and activists who have been camping in the forest were arrested and taken...
Read MoreNew web site on indigenous forestry education
There is a complete report and other significant information from the Indigenous Perspectives in Forestry Education Workshop, hosted by...
Read MoreThe Roraima Amazon forest fire in Brazil
The state of Roraima, in northern Brazil is on fire. A disaster similar to the recent fires in Indonesia is taking place and government...
Read MoreThe patenting of Ayahuasca: IAF breaks with COICA
MESSAGE FROM COICA Dear brothers and friends: Many thanks to all for the dozens of expressions of solidarity that we have received,...
Read MoreColombia: U’wa indigenous peoples confront oil companies
Responding to the immediate and increasing threat of oil exploration on their lands, the U’wa people have issued a statement...
Read MoreBolivia: call for financial support
APCOB (“Apoyo para el campesino indígena del oriente boliviano”: “Support to the Indigenous Peasant of Eastern Bolivia”)...
Read MoreNigeria: WRM “unwittingly subversive”
As a response to a fax sent by the WRM International Secretariat requesting information about Baton Mittee, Nigerian activist arrested in...
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