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The COVID-19 Crisis and Indigenous Peoples

The COVID-19 Crisis and Indigenous Peoples

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...
Zapatista Update: Forum on Defense of the Territory and Mother Earth

Zapatista Update: Forum on Defense of the Territory and Mother Earth

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...
Brazil Groups Denounce Industrial Forestry on Opening Day of IUFRO World Congress

Brazil Groups Denounce Industrial Forestry on Opening Day of IUFRO World Congress

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,...