Apr 7, 2020 | COVID 19, Paraguay, Social Media News, UN Climate COPs
Sign-on petition: “Hungry people can’t stop Coronavirus”- Paraguay US far right seeks ways to exploit coronavirus and cause social collapse (5 April 2020) Mutual Aid Movement Playing Huge Role in COVID-19 Crisis (3 April 2020) Historic Injustices...
Apr 3, 2020 | all other, Bolivia, Carbon Markets / Carbon Offsets, Chile, Climate Justice, COVID 19, Deforestation, Earth Minute, Earth Radio, Earth Watch, Featured, Forests, Fracking, Tar Sands & Pipelines, Indigenous Peoples, Latin America, Paraguay, Protests & Resistance, Rainforest, Social Media News, UN Climate COPs, Uncategorized, Videos, Zapatistas / Chiapas / Mexico
COVID-19: Underlying Causes, Human Rights Abuses and Ecological Destruction COVID-19 and Capitalism FROM FANON TO VENTILATORS: FIGHTING FOR OUR RIGHT TO BREATHE (6 MAY 2020) CORONAVIRUS FIGHT: UN CHIEF SAYS WORLD LEADERS ARE FALLING SHORT (1 MAY 2020) CORONAVIRUS: US...
Mar 18, 2020 | COVID 19, Deforestation, Earth Minute, Earth Radio, Featured, Forests, Paraguay, Social Media News, Tree Plantations
Soy plantation in Paraguay. Photo: Langelle/GJEP Fifty percent of the deforestation in eastern Paraguay is caused by the conversion of forests to soy monocultures. In the Chaco region, home to uncontacted Ayoreo tribes, most of the deforestation is taking place to...
Oct 17, 2018 | Climate Justice, Concerned Photography, Featured, Food Sovereignty, Forests, Indigenous Peoples, Paraguay, Social Media News
A photoessay about indigenous communities in the Chaco region of Paraguay, and their existence in a landscape under threat by agribusiness and international trade policies. By Fernando Franceschelli and Ines Franceschelli, Global Forest Coalition Oct. 16 was World...
Dec 19, 2017 | all other, Bioenergy, Climate Justice, Deforestation, Featured, Food Sovereignty, Forests, Indigenous Peoples, Paraguay, Social Media News
15 Dec, Buenos Aires: The Global Forest Coalition (GFC) [1] celebrated the failure of two key trade negotiations, the World Trade Organization (WTO), and EU-Mercosur free trade agreement, to reach a successful conclusion during negotiations in Argentina [2]. Both were...
Mar 20, 2017 | Bioenergy, Deforestation, Featured, Forests, Paraguay, Social Media News, Tree Plantations
March 20, 2017: The UNFAO’s [1] “Forests and Energy” theme for this year’s International Day of Forests on March 21 [2] misleadingly promotes bioenergy from burning wood from forests as well as from monoculture tree plantations as “sustainable” energy sources. This...
