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...
Oct 4, 2018 | all other, Bioenergy, Carbon Markets / Carbon Offsets, Climate Justice, Deforestation, Featured, Forests, Indigenous Peoples, Latin America, Protests & Resistance, REDD, Social Media News, Tree Plantations, Videos, Zapatistas / Chiapas / Mexico
Please share the trailer for ‘A Darker Shade of Green’ to help expose the false promises of REDD as a climate solution. Links to other formats and the full film are below. As policies and programs to Reduce Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation...
Oct 1, 2018 | all other, Bioenergy, Chile-All, Climate Justice, Featured, Food Sovereignty, Indigenous Peoples, Latin America, Political Repression & Murder, Social Media News, Zapatistas / Chiapas / Mexico
(Geneva, September 28, 2018) Seventeen years of long and arduous negotiations later, peasants and other people working in rural areas are only a step away from having a UN Declaration that could defend and protect their rights to land, seeds, biodiversity, local...
Jul 6, 2018 | all other, Climate Justice, Deforestation, Featured, Forests, Indigenous Peoples, Latin America, Political Repression & Murder, Social Media News
By Cory Rogers Appeared previously on IntercontinentalCry.org The best way to save forests and curb biodiversity loss is to recognize the claims of indigenous peoples to their territories, a new report urges. Published by the Rights and Resources Initiative...
Mar 23, 2018 | all other, Climate Justice, Environmental Justice, Featured, GMOs, Social Media News
Groups Raise Concerns Over Investor-Regulator Roles The Canadian government is receiving 10% royalties from sales of the world’s first genetically modified (GM or genetically engineered) animal, a GM Atlantic salmon. “We’re concerned that the government is...