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.

Articles 19 February 2025

Lanzamiento del documental "NO a REDD y los mercados de carbono"

Invitamos este lunes 24 de febrero a participar del lanzamiento virtual para Latinoamérica de este documental sobre la resistencia de comunidades indígenas y tradicionales al avance de REDD y otros proyectos del mercado de carbono sobre sus territorios.

Multimedia 19 February 2025

Documentary: NO to REDD and Carbon Markets

Available in English soon.

Articles 9 May 2024

The lack of transparency behind Indonesia's New Capital project and how the false rethoric of "Sponge City" is used to hide violations against the Balik People

JATAM East Kalimantan denounces the recent move of the Indonesian Minister of Public Works and Public Housing, Basuki Hadimoeljono, to appeal against the decision of a State Administrative Court in Jakarta that the government should make public a number of documents that it had kept secret.

Multimedia 7 November 2023

Indonesia: Protests against mining for electric vehicles

On October 28th, thousands of residents from Sagea, Gemaf and other villages on the island of Halmahera entered in shock with security forces when they occupied the installatioins of PT IWIP (Industrial Weda Bay Industrial Park) to protest against the company´s nickel mining activities that are destroying their land.

Articles 13 March 2023

Indonesia: Indigenous Balik reject the plan to evict their villages along the Sepaku river

Indigenous people from Balik tribe in Sepaku Lama Village, North Penajam Paser Utara Regency, East Kalimantan, carried out an action rejecting the plan to evict their villages around and along the Sepaku river for the project management of Floods or normalization of the Sepaku River center of Indonesia new capital city.

Articles 28 April 2022

10 Years of REDD+ in Acre and its Impacts on Indigenous Women and Female "Extrativistas"

Letícia Yawanawa, an indigenous leader from Acre, and Dercy Teles de Carvalho, ex-president of the Xapuri Rural Workers’ Union and an advocate for "extrativistas" talk about how REDD+ has affected the lives of women in communities that depend on forests.