ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN THE WRM BULLETIN

General Articles

• Africa: The huge value of mangroves for communities
• The rights of indigenous peoples in Africa
• Oil, Environment and Disaster Economics
• Central African Indigenous Peoples: Losing their health along with their forest
• Central Africa: The Twa Alienation from their Forests Impact Doubly on Women
• The Impact of Protected Areas on Twa Women

  Benin

• Community-Based Forest Management in the Igbodja Forest

  Burundi

• Burundi: Forest conservation against the people

  Cameroon

• New WRM publication on resistance against industrial plantations in Cameroon

• A “communal forest” opposed by local communities
• Bagyeli severely impacted by the establishment of industrial plantations français português
• When women mobilise to protect the moabi
• Chad/Cameroon: Impacts and broken promises of oil-pipeline project
• Development of Community Forests
• Baka Losing Out to Lobéké and Boumba National Parks
• 'Pygmy' leader to visit London
• Who conserves and who destroys forests?

  Central African Republic

• Logging companies destroy "Pygmies'" livelihoods

  Chad

• Chad/Cameroon: Impacts and broken promises of oil-pipeline project

  Congo DR (ex-Zaire)

• Tar sands and palm oil projects threaten local communities and undermine efforts to tackle climate change

• Inga dams mean big business for corporations and no benefit for local communities

• Doing away with forests, people and climate through logging
• Tracking the deadly thread of coltan

• DRC: Threat to rainforests gain momentum

• DRC: Efe Pygmies deprived of their homeland and their livelihood
• The World Bank acknowledges failure in EESRSP project
• Mbuti forest peoples' survival threatened
• The case of the Twa of the Kahuzi-Biega National Park

  Congo R

• Foreign loggers deplete forests and livelihoods

  Côte d'Ivoire

• Côte d'Ivoire: The sacred forest, a community protected area

  Ethiopia

• Dutch conservation organization involved in eviction of thousands of tribal people

  Gabon

• Marc Ona Essangui awarded 2009 Goldman Environmental Prize

  Gambia

• Gambia: Where the rural population is at the centre of forest management

  Ghana

• Newmont Mining Corp. threatens Ajenjua Bepo Forest and neighbouring communities

  Ivory Coast

• Tanoé Swamps Forest under destruction by Unilever/Palm-Ci’s oil palm plantations

Kenya

• Ogiek's rights violated by climate change and by measures to stop it
• The Ogiek harassed and evicted from their homeland Mau forest
• The Sengwer, a traditional culture on the verge of extinction
• Forest destruction for the benefit of government cronies
• Who favours and who destroys forest biodiversity?
• International campaign for the Ogiek
• Resistance to the Sondu Mirium Dam project
• Local peoples' land rights ignored
• The future of the Ogiek and their forests
• Ogiek people's fight to protect their forest

  Liberia

• Liberian NGO’s expectations for an EU/Liberia FLEGT partnership agreement

  Madagascar

• The impact of Forest Conservation policies on Forest dependent communities in SE Madagascar. Lessons for sustainability of Madagascar’s New Protected Areas
• Communities defend rainforests against Rio Tinto

  Mozambique

• Pine and eucalyptus companies are advancing on peasant land in the north of the country
• Pine plantation project brings misfortune to 31 families in the North
• An overview of the problems faced by Mozambique’s forests, forest-dependent peoples and forest workers

  Nigeria

• The long arm of justice is finally catching up on Shell
• Michelin’s rubber plantations destroyed women’s livelihoods
• Women of Idheze shut down Agip’s oil facilities
• Tree plantations at the expense of forests and forest people’s livelihoods
• People protect mangroves against shrimp farming
• Gold Medal to Shell: A mockery to Nigeria's peoples
• Shell's choice between profits and principles
• Poverty, oil pipelines and death
• Shell sets forests on fire
• The struggle continues
• Victory of local communities over Texaco
• Oil and violence in Nigeria
• Human rights abuses in Nigeria continue
• Ogoni released in Nigeria: a light of hope
• WRM "unwittingly subversive"
• Nnimmo Bassey imprisoned and released

  Rwanda

• Indigenous Batwa Opening Channels of Cooperation with Conservation
• The un-reported plight of the Batwa

  Senegal

• Women's project restores nature and benefits the community
• The hidden impacts of charcoal production

  South Africa

• New video online on timber plantations in Southern Africa
• What are the true costs of woodlots?
• Resistance to tree monocultures in grasslands

  Tanzania

• Conservation should be with the people
• Joint and Community-Based Forest Management in the Uluguru Mountains
• Human rights, social justice and conservation
• Local people benefit from forest products
• Preservation results in human rights abuses

  Togo

• Community rights and forest conservation

  Uganda

• Carbon sink plantation - where trees are more important than people
• BIDCO Oil palm plantation expansion will further put at risk local communities livelihoods
• The Batwa issue declaration calling for their rights to be recognized
• Uganda: Forests, communities and women
• Thousands of Indigenous People evicted from FSC-certified Mount Elgon National Park
• Fighting for the Mabira Forest and final success!

Zimbabwe

• Demystifying the role of "the poor" in forest destruction