March 20, 2017: The UNFAO’s “Forests and Energy” theme for this year’s International Day of Forests on March 21 misleadingly promotes bioenergy from burning wood from forests as well as from monoculture tree plantations as “sustainable” energy sources. This promotion by FAO comes despite evidence that bioenergy is increasingly contributing to the destruction of forests, and is no better for the climate than fossil fuels, say a large number of international environmental activist groups in a statement and letter to FAO released today.
International Women’s Day: Gender Justice and Feminist Emancipation Are Fundamental to Protect Forests
Photos by: Kapyanga Women Association and Zamsof Across forests, territories and rural communities in the Global South, women, in all their diversity, are sustaining life. They cultivate food, protect seeds, defend forests, and pass on ancestral knowledge that keeps...
