Bulletin articles

The Mundukuru peoples in Brazil: forestry concessions imposed on indigenous lands

What do the criticism of the Pope's encyclical by carbon market and REDD proponents reveal?

Relaunching destruction in Papua: monoculture agriculture project threatens indigenous lands and livelihoods

Mining activities and environmental protection in Madagascar

In Madagascar, a big island of 587 000 km2 in the Indian Ocean famous for its exceptional biodiversity and for its subsoil wealth in minerals, more than 6 million hectares nowadays are classified as protected areas for nature conservation. Yet, mining areas are also numerous and expanding. These two kinds of spaces are sometimes close or superimposed.

Why are we in jail? A women’s fight against injustice and domination in India

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

Mineral extraction in the province of Nord-Kivu, DRC: present situation and analysis of environmental questions

Reseau CREF (Network for Conservation and Rehabilitation of Forest Ecosystems) is a platform of organizations working on governance of natural resources in the province of North Kivu. Among others, it intervenes in the governance of the mining sector through its program “Mines and Hydrocarbons”. Context of the province of North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo

Living on the run: devastation of the Ayoreos’ lives and land at the hands of livestock farmers

Indigenous Ayoreo protesting against inaction of the Government on illegal deforestation. © GAT Paraguay is currently the location of a far from ordinary regional meeting. Experts from Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Colombia and Peru gathered on July 28 to discuss the critical situation posed by increasingly frequent sightings of indigenous peoples in isolation and its consequences.