Chile: Mega Forest Fires, Corporate Crime and Impunity Tree plantation companies have enormous power and impunity in Chile. The fires of 2017 demonstrated the collusion between these … [Read more...]
Brazil’s Landless Workers Movement Demands Unity Among Progressive Forces
The MST has publicly denounced and taken action against GE trees. In solidarity, we are sharing their message. Brazil is experiencing a deep economic, political, social and environmental … [Read more...]
WATCH: Risks, Concerns, and Potential Problems Regarding the Use of Biotechnology to Address Forest Health
WATCH: Risks, Concerns, and Potential Problems Regarding the Use of Biotechnology to Address Forest Health On March 27, GJEP's Anne Petermann and Ruddy Turnstone, as well as Rachel Smolker of … [Read more...]
Plantations Are Not Forests! Deceit and Destruction Behind FAO’s Forest Definition
Plantations Are Not Forests! Deceit and Destruction Behind FAO’s Forest Definition For decades, the WRM has demanded that the United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) urgently … [Read more...]
International Women’s Day Action in Brazil: Women from MST (Landless Worker’s Movement) Occupy Suzano Pulp Mill Against GE Trees
Women denounce loss of water, impacts from toxic agrochemical spraying and monoculture timber plantations, and future use of GE trees By MST Communication Group in Bahia Via MST.org.br Photos: … [Read more...]
Press Release – Brazil: Militant Women Occupy Pulp Mill to Protest GE Trees, Tree Plantations
For Immediate Release 5 March 2018 More than One Thousand Women Take Over Suzano Pulp & Paper Mill to Protest Genetically Engineered Trees and Eucalyptus Plantations More than one … [Read more...]
Indigenous Communities Urge Governments to Support Biodiversity Conservation Initiatives
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 … [Read more...]
Forest Communities’ Struggle for Traditional and Customary use of Forests in India
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 … [Read more...]
Carbon Colonialism: Failure of Green Resources’ Carbon Offset Project in Uganda
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. … [Read more...]
GMO Bananas Not The Answer: Uganda’s Biodiversity is Solution to Country’s Food Problems
“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 … [Read more...]
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