Struggles Against Tree Monocultures

Corporate profit drives land grabs to install industrial tree monocultures. Where industrial plantations take root, communities' territories and lives are violently invaded, their forests destroyed and their water polluted. When communities resist, companies tend to respond with aggression. Despite this extreme violence, communities around the world are resisting, organizing and joining forces to defend their territories. Every September 21 the International Day of Struggle against Monoculture Tree Plantations is celebrated.

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Action alerts 5 September 2024

International alert: Urgent protection for the indigenous peoples from Alto Acará, in the Brazilian Amazon

National and international organizations sent an letter to Brazilian authorities to demand urgent protection for the Turiwara indigenous people of the upper Acará River, in Pará, who are suffering violence and serious threats from Agropalma company.
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Action alerts 23 August 2024

Brazil: Turiwara people demand to STOP Agropalma's violence in their territories

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Action alerts 6 May 2024

Palm oil in Brazil: Sign the petition to return the lands to indigenous and quilombola communities

Oil palm plantations are spreading like wildfire across the eastern Brazilian Amazon. But local communities are standing up to the palm oil industry’s brutality and sweeping land grabs, demanding the return of their ancestral lands and calling on the authorities to protect them from encroachment and violence.
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Action alerts 21 September 2023

Sign the letter in support of communities affected by industrial tree plantations!

Sign the letter in support of Indigenous and local communities devastated by the social and ecological impacts of industrial tree plantations, and threatened by the planned future use of GMO tree plantations.
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Action alerts 28 April 2023

Brazil BioFuels (BBF) carries out armed attack against communities in Pará, Brazil

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Action alerts 18 April 2023

Urgent request for support to MST in Espírito Santo, Brazil

We urge you to express solidarity with MST (Movement of Landless Rural Workers) and send an urgent message to the state government in order to prevent that 200 families will be evicted from a land occupation in a eucalyptus plantation area of the transnational pulp and paper company Suzano.
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Action alerts 12 January 2023

Demand that the Suzano company stops destroying quilombola territories in the south of Bahia, Brazil

Action alerts 30 September 2021

Public letter of the International Meeting "How to Resist Monoculture Plantations"

21 September, 2021 – International Day of Struggle against Industrial Tree Plantations.

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Action alerts 29 September 2021

Manifesto Rede Alerta contra os Desertos Verdes (21 de setembro 2021)

(Only available in Portuguese)

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Multimedia 17 August 2021

(Vídeo) Brasil: Denúncia de impactos da produção de celulose na região da Comunidade de Curvelândia (MA)

(Only available in Portuguese) Confira o vídeo com o posicionamento da comunidade contrária à passagem de caminhões de eucalipto.

Action alerts 6 October 2020

Open Letter to HSBC about Suzano in Brazil

This Open Letter is a public reply from the Alert against the Green Desert Network from Brazil and WRM to an email from the investment department of the HSBC bank in the USA, requesting more information regarding the Suzano paper and pulp corporation in Brazil.

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(Video) Luchas contra los monocultivos de árboles en Latinoamérica

Conversatorio virtual realizado el 21 de Septiembre de 2020, en conmemoración del Día Internacional de Lucha contra los Monocultivos de Árboles. Organizado por la Red Latinoamericana contra los Monocultivos de Árboles (Recoma).