Mar 26, 2020 | all other, COVID Ties to Ecological Destruction, COVID: All Posts, COVID19 & Indigenous Peoples, Deforestation, Featured, Forests, Indigenous Peoples, Latin America, Social Media News, Tree Plantations, UN Climate COPs, Zapatistas / Chiapas / Mexico
Indigenous man. Espirito Santo, Brazil, November 2005. Tupinikim and Guaraní peoples cut down a plantation of eucalyptus trees owned by Aracruz Celulose to rebuild this village in its traditional location. The village had been forcibly removed to make room for the...
Jan 3, 2020 | all other, Featured, Fracking, Tar Sands & Pipelines, Indigenous Peoples, Latin America, Social Media News, Zapatistas / Chiapas / Mexico
Building with Zapatista murals in Amador Hernandez. Photo: Langelle via Tonatierra January 1, 2020 Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission House Committee on Foreign Affairs 5100 O’Neill House Office Building 200 C Street SW Washington, D.C. 20515 Good greetings. In...
Jan 2, 2020 | all other, Chile-All, False Solutions, Featured, Fracking, Tar Sands & Pipelines, Indigenous Peoples, Latin America, Social Media News, Zapatistas / Chiapas / Mexico
Comandante in La Realidad, Chiapas, Mexico (1996). Photo: Langelle Enough 14 December 25, 2019 On December 21 and 22, 2019, in the new Jacinto Canek caracol in the facilities of Cideci / UniTierra, San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, the Forum in Defense of the...
Sep 30, 2019 | all other, Brazil, Chile-All, Featured, Forests, Honduras, Latin America, No GE Trees News, Press Releases, Publications, Rainforest, Social Media News, Tree Plantations, Uncategorized, Zapatistas / Chiapas / Mexico
Caption: “Eucalyptus Plantations are not Forests” banner at MST Camp, Espirito Santo Brazil (2005) Photo: Anne Petermann Note: The following introduction was written to launch the open letter the the IUFRO World Congress attached below it (in English,...
Oct 2, 2018 | all other, Bioenergy, Climate Justice, Featured, Forests, Social Media News
Most don’t last long enough to provide habitat for many forest species (ST. LOUIS): Secondary forests, or forests that have regrown after agriculture use, only last an average of 20 years, according to a recently released scientific paper [open access]. The...