The multiple challenges for popular resistance and mobilization in defence of forests
When a new year begins, it is quite common for people to express their wishes and hopes for a better world. Here at WRM, we are wishing for a year (Read More)
OUR VIEWPOINT
THE DESTRUCTION OF FORESTS AND TERRITORIES IN FRONT OF PEOPLES’ RESISTANCES
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Stop All Mekong Basin Dams!
On September 2014, fishing communities’ networks from Cambodia and Thailand met with great solidarity and commitment to share and voice the impacts related to large-scale hydroelectric power dams being built (Read More)
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Brazil: The countless problems surrounding the Suzano corporation
In late 2013, the international organization Biofuelwatch, in conjunction with WRM and the Brazilian NGO CEPEDES, published a case study on the eucalyptus plantations of the Brazilian company “Suzano Papel (Read More)
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Guatemala: Grassroots organizations criticise palm oil roundtable consultation
Several grassroots organizations in Guatemala released a statement criticizing the public consultation process of the corporate social responsibility principles and criteria of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO). The (Read More)
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“Pulping” the Local-Food
One of Indonesia’s pulp and paper giants, Asia Pulp&Paper (APP), is planning to build a new pulp mill to supply not only pulp to paper companies within the APP Group, (Read More)
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Chile: Discredited FSC label continues to legitimize industrial tree plantations
The companies Forestal Mininco y Forestal Arauco account for the vast majority of tree plantation activities in Chile, with almost two million hectares of monoculture plantations of exotic tree species, (Read More)
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Enclosing territories for financial profit
Private and state enclosures of lands, forests and water are not new phenomena. Much of what grows on land, what is grown by humans on land, what flows on and (Read More)
PEOPLES IN ACTION
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Nigeria: Tales of Grabland
A documentary from “Land Justice for West Africa” shows how Ogoni communities, already affected severely by the oil industry in the Niger delta, are now losing their territories for a (Read More)
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Papua-Wide meeting calls for 10 year Moratorium on Plantation and Forestry Industries
Representatives of indigenous communities, environmentalists and human rights defenders from all over West Papua met in Jayapura (4th-7th November 2014) to discuss problems linked to the forestry and large-scale plantation (Read More)
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“This Land is for All of We”: A Rama community in Bangkukuk, Nicaragua, speaks out about the Grand Canal Project
For centuries, the Rama people have lived on the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua. In June of 2013, the Nicaraguan government signed an exclusive contract with a Hong Kong based development (Read More)
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Ecuador: Chevron-Texaco to pay for the devastation it caused in the Amazon
The Union for Those Affected by Texaco Operations (UDAPT) has been fighting for more than 20 years to force Chevron-Texaco to pay for the ravaging contamination it caused in the (Read More)
RECOMMENDED
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Ideas for the political thought of La Via Campesina in the Amazon
The coordinating team of La Via Campesina in the state of Pará, Brazil, has compiled in a book the political struggles waged over time in the Amazon and the initiatives (Read More)
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Greed and Resistance in Sarawak’s Rainforest
The recently released book “Money Logging” documents the local politics, international complicity and dedicated resistance in the struggle against the turning of Sarawak’s rainforests into a monoculture of oil palms (Read More)
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Planting poverty: The forestry business in Chile
This documentary produced by “Periódico Resumen” addresses the origins and consequences of the expansion of the tree plantation industry in central-southern Chile. Plantations have been expanding in Chile at a (Read More)
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African local livelihoods under threat as palm oil producers capture more lands
Booming global demand for palm oil and limited room for the industry’s expansion in Asia have led large palm oil producers to look towards Africa. Companies are also betting on (Read More)
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Washing out Diversity: The impacts of oil palm plantations in Palawan, Philippines
Oil palm plantations in Palawan, as elsewhere in the Philippines, are portrayed as a key solution to lower greenhouse gas emissions and as a tool for poverty eradication. However, reality (Read More)
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Documentary: “Banking Nature”
What is nature worth? How much profit can it report? At a time when biodiversity is critically threatened, this documentary reveals how banks and private investors are increasingly converting natural (Read More)