Struggles for the Forests

When corporations destroy forests, or restrict or even prohibit access to forest peoples' territories, they place communities' ways of life and their very existence at risk. WRM supports forest peoples' struggles to defend their territories, and their right to decide how to live, and how to use the forests they depend on.

Bulletin articles 14 December 2012

Environmental Human Rights Advocates Challenge REDD+ in Chiapas and in California

Social organizations try to prevent a Chiapas-California REDD agreement from going forward. They denounce the potential for increased emissions in California on the one hand and landgrabs in Chiapas on the other.

Bulletin articles 14 December 2012

REDD and the Indigenous Peoples of Costa Rica

Other information 14 December 2012

Call to Action from Sarayaku Indigenous Leaders - VIDEO

Other information 14 December 2012

How REDD and environmental services threaten the Lives of Forest People in Acre

Other information 14 December 2012

Recognising Sacred Natural Sites and Territories in Kenya: An Analysis of how the Kenyan Constitution, National and International Laws can Support the Recognition of Sacred Natural Sites and their Community Governance Systems

Bulletin articles 14 December 2012

Disputed territory: new video on the green economy versus community-based economies in southern Brazil

A story of the peoples of the Atlantic Forest in southern Brazil in a disputed territory where the green economy competes with community-based economies.