• ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN THE WRM BULLETIN

• OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION

• LINKS

ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN THE WRM BULLETIN

2008

• The ongoing fight of indigenous communities against illegal logging

2006

• From Mexico to Ecuador – twinned in history, memory and resistance
• Talking of trees

2003

• The loss of forests for the community and for women
• Women suffer the effects of market opening doubly
• Stop the Forced Displacement of Indigenous Communities in Chiapas
• The door is open to "neo-liberal" tree plantations

2002

• Complaints that Conservation International is requesting repression against Zapatistas and peasants
• Who benefits from oil palm in Chiapas?
• The Puebla Panama Plan threathens Los Chimalapas tropical forest
• Deforestation progresses, but not the measures to prevent it

2001

• Montiel and Cabrera are finally free!
• Finnish environmentalists concerned by Finnish forestry plan
• Growing opposition to industrial shrimp farming
• Opposition to forestry plan prepared by Finnish consultancy firm
• Forestry Plan prepared by Finns
• Oil palm and the different meanings of Chiapas

2000

• International appeal for the release of Montiel and Cabrera
• Mexican "justice" finds environmental activist guilty
• Ecosystem fragmentation and inequity
• False accusations of "eco-terrorism" and "ecological crimes"

1999

• Support needed to release anti-logging campesino leader
• A destructive megaproject for Tehuantepec Isthmus in Mexico
• Opposition to deforestation in Chihuahua
• Mangrove destruction by tourism and shrimp farming

1998

• The "Mexican version" of pulpwood plantations
• Mangroves vs. Shrimp Farming and Golf Courses

1997

• Suspected murder of Mexican activist
• The beginning of the plantations' invasion

OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION

• El Cultivo de la Palma Africana En Chiapas
  Chiapas al Día, No. 293 - CIEPAC, junio 2002

• Mexico's decision to free environmental activists hailed: Rodolfo Montiel and Teodoro Cabrera!

• Minutes of the meeting with CONAFOR (Comisión Nacional Forestal) on the forestal master plan for Mexico (Plan Estratégico Forestal para México 2025, PEF)
  Helsinki, Finland 

• The Megaproject of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec: Globalization and Social and Environmental Deterioration.
  by Miguel Angel Garcia

• Action Alerts:
  • FERN: Action needed at EU level: forest protectors, Rodolfo Montiel Flores and Teodoro Cabrera Garcia need to be released (November 2000)
  • Ultimo empujón para la liberación de campesinos ecologistas del estado de Guerrero (only in Spanish) (August 2000)
  • Persecuted Mexican environmentalists remain in jail (Mayo 2000)
  • Sign on letter to free Rodolfo Montiel from jail (August 1999)
  • Mangrove destruction by tourism and shrimp farming (May 1999)

   

• Eucalyptus, Neoliberalism and NAFTA in Southeastern Mexico. ACERCA, June 1999
   
• Datos de la "versión mexicana" de la estrategia global de la industria maderera-papelera internacional bajo el TLCAN (only in Spanish) by Alejandro Villamar

LINKS

LaNeta
http://www.laneta.apc.org/

Revista Etnoecológica
http://www.etnoecologica.org.mx/numeros.htm

Conservation International - México
http://www.ci-mexico.org.mx 

Foro Xelaju
http://usuarios.lycos.es/xelaju/xela.htm

CIEPAC - Centro de Investigaciones Económicas 
y Políticas de Acción Comunitaria
http://www.ciepac.org 

Mangrove Environmental Protection Group
http://www.elmanglar.com/

Montes Azules
http://www.montesazules.org/

Otros Mundos A.C. Chiapas
http://www.otrosmundoschiapas.org/

Proyecto Sierra de Santa Marta, A.C.
http://mx.geocities.com/pssm_ac/index.htm

Chimalapas. Autonomía Indígena y Defensa de la Selva Zoque
http://www.geocities.com/chimalapasmx/