By Forest Peoples Programme Global Research A potential wood supplier for one of the world’s largest pulp and paper mills does not have the consent of local communities A joint investigation report released in English on May 8, 2017 by Indonesian NGOs titled...
The wildfires in Chile that killed at least 11 people have been fueled by plantations of non-indigenous forests, such as eucalyptus and pine, according to biologists. “About 42% of the forest fires are in plantation forests, which are like matchboxes,” Mary Kalin...
By Mike Gaworecki Originally published at Mongabay.com More than 350,000 trees were felled between March 2010 and March 2015, the study states, despite being in areas that have been granted official protected status. At least one million logs were illegally exported...
Despite industry talking points, wood energy is not environmentally friendly. Burning wood for electricity, wood-based liquid transportation fuels, biochemicals, bioplastics, bioproducts, are all part of an envisioned “bioeconomy”. "This report confirms once again...
The researchers found 2,018 protected areas across the tropics store nearly 15 percent of all tropical forest carbon. This is because protected areas tend to have denser, older forest – thus, higher carbon stocks. Their study uncovered that, on average, nearly 0.2...
By Maximo Anderson Originally published at Mongabay.com XINGU RESEX, Brazil – On a blazing recent Amazonian afternoon, with the peak of the day’s heat beating down, Lindolfo Silva de Oliveira Filho, 68 – known as “Senhor Lindolfo” – unloaded a burlap sack full of...
From the World Rainforest Movement Bulletin: Years before governments adopted the Paris Agreement, international initiatives promising millions of hectares of reforestation and forest restoration were launched, supposedly to benefit the environment and local...
Via World Rainforest Movement bulletin: The 22nd annual UN climate meeting has come and gone in 2016, with governments celebrating the ratification of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, adopted at the UN climate meeting in 2015. In 1997, the US government did not...
When you dig beneath the surface of Donald Trump's pick to run the USDA, Sonny Perdue, all you find is a trail of slime. Exposed for what he really is, a shill for the big-ag and factory farm industry, he is a testament to the depth of systemic corruption running...
Previously published by GlobalVoices.org. This post originally appeared on Video Volunteers, an award-winning international community media organization based in India. An edited version is published below as part of a content-sharing agreement. Like in many parts of...