[Français ci-dessous] Dear friends and allies,
The Global Forest Coalition (GFC) invites you to a webinar on 29 October featuring speakers from our member groups whose stories of resistance to extractivism are included in the latest issue of Forest Cover: Exploited Lands, Exploited Lives.
– Click here to register now! Don’t miss this opportunity! –
Forest Cover 69 Exploited Lands, Exploited Lives: Struggles for Forests, Life and Gender Justice in the Global South explores the gendered impacts of monoculture tree plantations, false climate solutions, agribusiness, and extractivism in the Global South. This webinar is an opportunity to hear directly from the researchers and authors about the struggles and innovative solutions of communities from Brazil to Georgia to Nepal.
The conversation will bring together activists, researchers, and community leaders from across the Global South and North to share firsthand experiences of resistance, resilience, and hope in the face of extractivism, biodiversity loss, false climate solutions, and human rights violations.
Details:
Date: Wednesday, 29 October 2025
Time: 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm UTC
Registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/
Interpretation: English, Spanish, French & Portuguese
Speakers include:
Heather Lee (Global Justice Ecology Project, Canada) on how Big Tech is driving an ecological and social crisis in Brazil under the guise of “climate responsibility.”
Alhelí González (Heñói Centro de Estudios, Paraguay) on the threats of agribusiness expansion and the dispossession of Indigenous and rural women in the Chaco region.
Bhola Bhattarai (National Forum for Advocacy Nepal) on how the Chepang people are confronting mining companies and asserting their rights to land and cultural survival.
Wen Bo (Environmental Paper Network, China) on interconnected women-led struggles against destructive pulp plantations in Asia.
Mario Vargas (CIPCA, Bolivia) on Bolivia’s soy expansion and the shared challenges of a collapsing extractivist model.
Moderated by Valentina Figuera Martínez, GFC’s Gender Justice and Forests Campaign Coordinator, the discussion will unpack the gendered dimensions of these crises, highlighting how Indigenous Peoples, local communities, women in all their diversity, gender-diverse people, and youth are confronting environmental destruction and shaping real, transformative solutions.
Join us to explore the themes and stories in Forest Cover 69—and be part of a global conversation to dismantle extractivism, amplify community-led solutions, and advance gender and environmental justice.
