Photo: Activists stage protest against the carbon dioxide emissions trading in front of the World Congress Centre Bonn, the site of the COP23, the annual UN climate change conference, in Bonn, Germany on November 17, 2017. Reuters/Wolfgang Rattay Parties attending COP23 in Germany expressed the need for another year to finalize the guidelines for implementing the 2015 Paris Agreement by 2020. Read the original article here.
Implementation of FRA in protected areas has been virtually non-existent and claims filed under FRA lie pending for as long as since 2009. Click here to read the original article.…
NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Activists are demanding the repeal of a law to increase forest cover by planting more trees, saying it is encouraging deforestation and depriving indigenous…
Photo: In many areas, plantations were fenced off, blocking access of local communities to the forest. Credit: Kumar Sambhav Shrivastava / Flickr All the 52 compensatory afforestation plantations in Chhattisgarh,…
As Global Forest Coalition we were sad to learn about the news of the passing away of our close friend Wally Menne, one of the great lions of the global…
By Jan Carl Matysiak* It is a rare outstanding forest with an innumerable number of over 100 year old trees. It is one of the last places where you can…
Uslaini or Chaus comes from a farming family of the Minangkabau indigenous tribe in West Sumatra. She is also an activist and work for the development of rural communities and…
At the start of a major Climate Engineering Conference [1] in Berlin, the Global Forest Coalition [2] has launched a Working Paper that highlights the risks of different proposals for…
Co-Written by GRAIN & Ashlesha Khadse Originall published by CounterCurrents.org on October 3, 2017 Featured photo by: Farmers of the Karnataka Farmers movement (KRRS) mobilize against unfair prices as part…
On the occasion of this year’s International Day Against Monoculture Tree Plantations (21 September), OLIVER MUNNION reminds us of the importance of conserving and restoring natural forests. The piece is…
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…
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
