My name is Uslaini, my nickname is Chaus and I’m the Director of WALHI Sumatera Barat in Indonesia. My passion in life is helping rural communities to have a better life, and this is WALHI’s passion too, so I really love my job. I come from a farming family, I’m the sixth of seven children, and we all had to help in our home and in the fields to earn enough to cover our school fees. I want to help …
August 2017 We, the Global Forest Coalition, an international coalition of 87 NGOs and Indigenous Peoples’ Organisations from 59 different countries, express our concern and call for solidarity with Pablo…
Quarter of a Million People Say NO to First-Ever GE Forest Tree *Photo by Orin Langelle of the wildfires in Chile By: Anne Petermann As a result of a national…
This photo essay is originally published in Intercontinental Cry. Community members analyzing a map during a Participatory GIS (PGIS) mapping exercise. PGIS places control on access and use of culturally…
Cree que es posible generar una alternativa al modelo y crear una agenda del TIPNIS hacia futuro. Pablo Solón, exembajador de Bolivia ante la ONU y actual director de la…
Los servicios de bomberos temen que aumente la cifra de muertos en un incendio que sigue creciendo. Read the original article here
Prime minister says telephone cables and communications towers were destroyed by wildfires that have killed at least 62 people. Read the original article here
On World Environment Day, teleSUR takes a look at Mapuche community conservation and practices with this photos essay by Carolina Lagos, Global Forest Coalition and Colective VientoSur. Read the original…
22 May: Rapidly growing emissions from tourism related aviation, and proposals to offset these through fraudulent projects are a threat to biodiversity and communities, warns the Global Forest Coalition (GFC)[1]…
By Andrey Laletin* The twelfth session of the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF-12) took place at the UN headquarters in New York in May 1-5, 2017. There were more…
At Bayer’s annual general meeting in Bonn, environmentalists and politicians voiced discontent over the proposed takeover. Both companies have come under fire for substandard ethical and environmental practices. Read the…
Zur Rolle Monsantos in Paraguay und wahrscheinlichen Folgen nach einer Fusion mit dem deutschen Bayer-Konzern Read the original article here
El agrónomo Miguel Lovera es conocido en ese país por su postura contra los cultivos transgénicos. Sin embargo, esta modalidad de producción está muy extendida en la región. Read the…
A photo essay by our member PACOS Trust, Malaysia. On Earth Day, this photo essay celebrates the beautiful interdependence between indigenous communities and nature. It shows various indigenous communities from…
By Rina Chandran MUMBAI, April 21 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – More than 70 environmental groups have warned the construction of power plants near the Sundarbans in Bangladesh, a mangrove forest…
Mangrove forest in the Sundarbans. Photo: Mohammad Rakibul Hasan Press release 7th of April 2017 During the current visit of the Prime Minister of Bangladesh to India, investors in the…
Photo credit: Hannes Jung By Muhammad Ikhwan* “In 2004, the idea to make a new human rights instrument for the protection of peasants rights were getting ridiculed even in the…
