Our own Ruddy Turnstone is featured in the second video of Dogwood Alliance's Forest Defenders series: Stories Happen in Forests! Watch the video & become a Forest Defender at Dogwood Alliance. https://youtu.be/mDqjfwsDTtg More about Ruddy: Ruddy Turnstone is a...
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WATCH: MST Militant on Taking Back Land from Plantations in Brazil
The following trailer and the full video are in Portuguese, with Spanish spoken translation and English subtitles. El preestreno y el video completo están en Portugués, con traducción en vivo al Español, y con subtítulos en Inglés. A pré-estreia e o vídeo completo...
WATCH: Exclusive Interview with a Militant of the MST
The following trailer and the full video are in Portuguese, with Spanish spoken translation and English subtitles. El preestreno y el video completo están en Portugués, con traducción en vivo al Español, y con subtítulos en Inglés. A pré-estreia e o vídeo completo...
WATCH: Orangutans Threatened by Deforestation for Palm Oil
Indonesia’s Orangutan populations are struggling due to illegal logging and forest burning for products like palm oil and to create mining fields. From the CGTN.com report: Jamartin Sihite is CEO of Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation and he has been an orangutan...
WATCH: Deforestation is ‘Death a Thousand Cuts’ in Dominican
Al Jazeera English recently released this short documentary, Death by a Thousand Cuts, which centers around the murder of Eligio Eloy Vargas, aka "Melaneo", a park ranger in a Dominican National Park who was found brutally murdered with a machete....
Pepsi Choosing ‘Profits Over People and the Planet’ with Human Rights Abuse, Deforestation
New report reveals connections between the snack food giant and major importers of palm oil connected to environmental and social scandal San Francisco, CA - A new report released today by Rainforest Action Network (RAN), titled “Profits over People and the Planet,...
Deforestation is increasing in the Brazilian Amazon
By Chris Lang ReddMonitor.org In 2011, REDD-Monitor asked “Can REDD save the Amazon?”. Six years later, after Norway has poured more than US$1 billion into REDD in Brazil, it is clear that REDD is not a solution to Amazon deforestation. Deforestation fell from 2004 to...
Pressure to Replace Tree Plantations Burnt by Wildfires with GE Trees in Chile
By Claire Bleakley GE Free NZ I was invited by OLCA (Observatorio Latinoamericano de Conflictos Ambientales) as part of an international team working with the Campaign to Stop GE Trees. The delegation was there to highlight the IUFRO Tree biotechnology...
Large-Scale Land Thieves are Seizing, Deforesting Brazilian Amazon
The Tapajós River Basin lies at the heart of the Amazon, and at the heart of an exploding controversy: whether to build 40+ large dams, a railway, and highways, turning the Basin into a vast industrialized commodities export corridor; or to curb this development...
LISTEN: Anne Petermann on GE Trees and Plantations in Chile
Global Justice Ecology Project’s Anne Petermann was this week's Earth Watch guest on KPFK radio's Sojourner Truth show hosted by Margeret Prescod. Petermann recently traveled to Chile to help investigate the impacts tree plantations are having on native people and the...