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.

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Publications 4 April 2019

Booklet: 12 Tactics Palm Oil Companies Use to Grab Community Land

The booklet “Promise, Divide, Intimidate and Coerce: 12 tactics palm oil companies use to grab community land” aims to support communities who want to strengthen their resistance and better prepare themselves to stop corporations from establishing on their lands.

Other information 11 March 2019

Cambodian Peasants Against the Bolloré Group

Bulletin articles 30 August 2016

Stories, identity and struggles: How local communities live with and talk about Mekong’s landscape

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Bulletin articles 5 February 2016

From the loss of fish to climate change: A look into the recent dam movement in the Mekong Region

Action alerts 1 October 2015

Mekong governments: Listen to the people! - Statement to sign-on

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Bulletin articles 16 September 2015

Cambodia: Steps to Victory

Bulletin articles 10 August 2015

Liberia: Vambo Community Activists ask for international support against gold mining

Bulletin articles 31 October 2013

Cambodia: The struggle of rural people for their “community forest”, an essential part of their food sovereignty

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Other information 30 November 2011

Help Kuy People of Cambodia to Save their forest

Bulletin articles 30 March 2011

Actions against dams around the world

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Bulletin articles 30 May 2009

Cambodia's Prey Long forest is “equivalent to life itself” for local communities

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Bulletin articles 27 September 2008

Cambodia: Indigenous women raise their voices to protect their forest and traditional livelihoods from rubber plantation companies