Indigenous communities’ own conservation practices are vital to biodiversity conservation, said two new reports [1] launched by communities in Kenya [2] and Ghana [3]. These are part of a series of reports from 12 countries by the Global Forest Coalition’s [4]...
By Souparna Lahiri Via Global Forest Coalition, India An estimated 147 million villagers in India live in or around forests, and another 275 million villagers depend heavily on forests as a source of livelihood. Livelihood security for forest dependent...
New Report Quantifies the Values that Wetland Forests Provide the Communities of the Southern US By Scot Quaranda Via Dogwood Alliance Asheville, North Carolina – On World Wetlands Day, a new report from Dogwood Alliance, “Treasures of the South: The True...
The Chicago Tribune recently published an article on BECCS technology A technology many hoped would fight climate change would cause even bigger environmental problems, scientists say. Tree engineers are manufacturing GE trees specifically to be used in BECCS and...
Via World Rainforest Movement Green Resources – a Norwegian tree plantation, carbon offset, wood products, and renewable energy company – champion themselves as a good corporate citizen. They claim to have planted more trees in Africa than any other private...
By BJ McManama, Indigenous Environmental Network with Anne Petermann and Ruddy Turnstone, Global Justice Ecology Project “Chestnuts roasting on an open fire, Jack Frost nipping at your nose…” We don’t even have to provide the score for you to hear this song clearly in...
“In Uganda, Slow Food continues to embrace, implement and disseminate agroecological practices as the legitimate solution to the problems of the current food system; it works on initiatives that defend the non-renewable wealth of food biodiversity under threat from...
Click here to view the report “The Big Bad Fix – The Case Against Climate Geoengineering,” a report released today by ETC Group, Biofuelwatch and Heinrich Böll Foundation, warns that geoengineering (the large-scale manipulation of the climate) is gaining...
By Catriona Croft-Cusworth Originally published by Forest News In 2014, many of the world’s major companies buying, trading or producing palm oil and pulp and paper made a joint commitment to stop clearing natural forests by 2020. As the deadline draws near,...
Interview to Roberto Liebgott, coordinator of “Regional Sul do Conselho Indigenista Missionário” – CIMI (The South Regional from the Indigenous Missionary Council) in Brazil. Originally published by World Rainforest Movement. WRM: Brazil’s recognition of...