ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN THE WRM BULLETIN

General Articles

• The clash of two worlds in the Peruvian Amazon
• Amazonia: The right of indigenous peoples to live in voluntary isolation
• A message from the Amazon against “environmental services”
• Pachamama: The Impact of the Commodification of Nature on Women
• The Indigenous and Campesino Biological Corridor in Central America

Argentina

• Wichi and Guarani women raise their voices against deforestation linked to soybean expansion
• Indigenous and environmental activists sound alarm over plans to promote tree plantations français português

  Chaco – land clearance, undernutrition and death

• Argentina-Chile: Young Mapuche opposed to the advance of plantation companies seeks political asylum
• Argentina: The destruction of the Misiones forest amounts to the genocide of the Mbya Guarani
• Uruguay-Argentina: Joint struggle against a pulp-mill
• Argentina: Victory of the Wichi community against logging company
• Argentina: Peoples and forests threatened by Canadian mining company
• A forestry company invades Guarani community lands in Misiones
• Forest conserved by the Wichí destroyed by agricultural companies
• Battle over gas pipeline in the long struggle of the Kolla peoples
• The struggle of the Kolla people

  Belize

• Villagers defend their mangroves

  Bolivia

• For the protection of the last isolated indigenous peoples

• The Amazon peoples discuss their future

• Indigenous Toromona in voluntary isolation in serious danger of disappearing
• Guarani People’s Assembly denounces REPSOL-YPF for violating its rights
• Community-based forest management in the history of the indigenous peoples
• Peasants and indigenous peoples march in favour of the right to natural resources
• Shell and Enron Gas pipeline in the Chiquitano Forest
• Indigenous peoples concerned by oil prospection
• Indigenous peoples' forests menaced by oil exploration
• The government legalises what is illegal
• Logging in indigenous territories
• Conservationists against the environment and local people
• Concern over the fate of forests
• Indigenous communities against logging company in Bolivia

  Brazil

• Once again opposing Plantar’s CDM project
• New legislation allows agribusiness to advance in the Amazon
• On Women’s day, peasant women struggle against tree plantations
• Women impacted by eucalyptus plantations speak out
• Agribusiness, deforestation and climate change
• Fisher-folk affected by Aracruz Celulose close the company’s private port
• Victories of peoples’ resistance in Peru and Brazil français português
• Historic federal court decision sentences Veracel Celulose (Stora Enso-Aracruz) for environmental violations français português
• Peru/Brazil: The right to self-determination of indigenous peoples living in voluntary isolation
• Aridity and death vs diversity and fertility: a women’s view of plantations

• Social organizations in Bahia demand a moratorium on eucalyptus plantations

• Tree monoculture promotion mechanisms and opposition

• Indigenous Peoples re-start actions to take back their land from Aracruz
• The Tupinikim and Guarani peoples reconquer their lands

• “... And we are against this progress of death"

• Next steps in the indigenous struggle: Territorial reoccupation and reconversion of eucalyptus plantations

• Brazil: The Pataxo’s struggle for their territory continues

• Indigenous Amazon people forced into contact

• Why landless women are opposed to monoculture eucalyptus plantations

• MST peasants occupy a shrimp farm
• Dams would destroy isolated tribe Enawene Nawe’s livelihood
• Pataxó, eucalyptus and the sustainability of Veracel Celulose
• Indigenous representatives campaign in Europe to recover their land occupied by Aracruz Celulose
• So, Mr. Liedeker, is Aracruz controversial?
• Quilombolas protest against Aracruz Cellulose
• Follow-up of Tupinikim and Guarani struggle against Aracruz Celulose
• The Federal Police invade Tupiniquim and Guarani villages on land recovered from Aracruz Celulose plantations
• Tupinikim and Guarani indigenous peoples take back their lands occupied by Aracruz
• Tupinikim and Guarani peoples restart their struggle against Aracruz
• A categorical demonstration against the green desert and in favour of life
• Highway is blocked against expansion of eucalyptus plantations
• Old hydroelectric dam project again threatens Amazon peoples
• Hope is born for peoples and forests
• Community-Based Forest Management in the Brazilian Amazon
• Indigenous peoples restart their struggle against dams on the Xingu river
• Local peoples defend biodiversity in Espirito Santo
• The rights of Aracruz and the rights of the people
• "Forward, Brazil" . . . towards further destruction of the Amazon
• Whose sovereignty?
• The struggle of the Pataxó indigenous peoples in Bahia
• The same as 500 years ago?
• Will there be justice for the Pataxó-Hã-Hã-Hãe?
• Aracruz: Indigenous peoples refuse to plant eucalyptus
• The struggle of the Pataxó-Hã-Hã-Hãe
• Say what they say, Monte Pascoal belongs to the Pataxo
• Monte Pascoal National Park belongs to the Pataxo
• Pataxo recover traditional lands
• Support for Extractive Reserve on islands of Tucuruí Dam reservoir
• Violence against Amazonian indigenous people
• Concern over new president of FUNAI
• Ten years without Chico Mendes
• "We want orchards, not eucalyptus plantations"
• A dictatorship-type action gives Aracruz a spurious victory
• Tension and uncertainty in Espirito Santo
• Tupinikim and Guarani lands: Imminent decission
• Indigenous Assembly of Tupinikim and Guarani / Document
  of the Ist Indigenous Assembly of the Tupinikim and Guarani
• Tupinikim/Guarani: a reply from Aracruz
• Assembly of the Tupinikim and Guarani
• Aracruz: Tupinikim and Guarani demands close to a decision
• Tupinikim and Guarani: does the Government respect the law?
• Accusation of biopiracy
• The Tupinikim/Guarani struggle continues
• Tupinikim and Guarani indigenous peoples vs Aracruz Cellulose

  Canada

• Victory of indigenous peoples in court
• New web site on indigenous forestry education

  Colombia

• Oil-palm plantations, violation of human rights and Afro-descendent communities’ quest for true dignity
• Militarized mining tramples ancestral rights of indigenous and Afro-Colombian communities in the Chocó
• Criminalization, a mechanism to ensure unfair “development”  
• Oil palm grows by the force of violence français português
• Constitutional decision over Forestry Law awards victory to social organizations
• Communities eradicate oil palm plantations to repossess their territory
• Irish-Dutch pulp company accused of serious social and environmental crimes
• The U’wa Indigenous People resist oil exploration
• The Bari people in defense of their territory
• The Motilon Bari Indigenous Peoples rise up for their rights against oil interests
• Logging and violence against Afro-Colombian communities in the Chocó
• Local communities affected by shrimp companies
• The Urrá Dam and the death of the Sinú River
• Even historical documents confirm the U'wa's territorial rights
• Illegal crops in Colombia: when the solution is worse than the problem
• International Mission and good news about the U'wa
• The U'wa and Embera join forces
• Action for the U'wa people in Colombia
• "The life and dignity of the Embera people won't be flooded"
• The U'wa people do not surrender
• The Embera Katio's struggle for life
• Violence and deforestation in the Choco region
• Save the "catival" forests
• A matter of life or death for the U'wa
• Black communities defend mangroves
• The U'wa achieve significant victory
• U'wa victory at Occidental's shareholder meeting
• Support to the U'wa people in Colombia
• The murder of three environmentalists
• U'wa indigenous peoples confront oil companies
• Problems with oil exploration in Colombia

  Costa Rica

• Government boosts subsidies for monoculture tree plantations
• Opposition to hydroelectric dam
• Indigenous territory threatened by hydroelectric dam

  Chile

• Opposition to government subsidies for the expansion of monoculture tree plantations
• Documentary-maker jailed for filming a documentary on the Mapuche struggle against forestry companies français português
• Patricia Troncoso, a symbol of the Mapuche struggle against a Government at the service of forestry companies
• The people of Mehuin again oppose the Celco pulp company
• The Mapuche peoples' resistance to the plantation invasion
• Argentina-Chile: Young Mapuche opposed to the advance of plantation companies seeks political asylum
• The impacts of monoculture tree plantations on Mapuche medicine
• Another Mapuche martyr dies as victim of an attack by a forestry company
• Mapuche defend their land from forestry companies
• Police at the service of a forestry company murder a young Mapuche
• Is Community-Based Forest Management Possible in the Context of a Neoliberal Economy?
• Invasion of Mapuche territory by tree plantation companies
• Repression or solution to the Mapuche-forestry company confrontation?
• The struggle of the Pehuenche against the Ralco Dam
• International Prize awarded to two Mapuche women
• Wine production threatened by pulp mill project
• Forest management by indigenous communities
• Under the shadow of Pinochet
• The Mapuche conflict persists
• "Marichi weu" (We will win ten times)
• A severely questioned model
• The Treng Treng Mapuche and their struggle for land
• Mapuche indigenous peoples' march to the capital city
• Establishment experts and reality
• The forestry model in big trouble
• Community opposes pulp mill project
• Indigenous protest in Santiago, Chile

  Dominican Republic

• The people say “no” to the cement factory at Los Haitises!

  Ecuador 

• Statement by the indigenous peoples against forest/REDD CO2lonialism
• Memory and future emerge from women’s struggle for their mangroves
• Disputes against shrimp farming contribute to women’s lib

• New oil exploration activities in Yasuní National Park

• Peru and Ecuador: The last Free Peoples besieged by oil and logging companies
• Major success against mining in the Intag zone
• Indigenous peoples close to extinction because of illegal logging
• Uprising in demand of a country free from large-scale mining

• Public outcry demanding revision of the Agrarian and Forestry Plan

• Consolidation of resistance against mining in Intag
• The Awa People and their territory between political interests and economic pressure.
• From Mexico to Ecuador – twinned in history, memory and resistance
• The Huaorani people of Yasuni Park are attacked by timber and oil groups
• Ecuador: Yasuni Park, oil and indigenous resistance
• Women from Sarayaku Against Terrorism Waged by the Army
• Floresmilo Villalta has been freed!
• The Sarayacu people request support against ChevronTexaco's operations
• The Awa Federation's Experience in the Management and Conservation of its Territory
• Clashes between indigenous group and loggers in the Amazon
• When people said NO to mining
• Commercial exploitation of forest peoples
• The future of the Chachi indigenous people and their forests
• Oil exploitation banned in protected areas
• The Cofan's successful action against an oil well
• Indigenous women against oil exploration
• Indigenous women defend the forest of Pastaza

  Guatemala 

• Social and environmental impacts of oil palm plantations
• Indigenous rights and logging licenses
• Champerico fisherfolk win over shrimp farm firm Camarsa
• Security for shrimps, insecurity for the local population
• A dam and the massacre of 400 people
• Community forest concession initiative at Petén questioned
• Maya Biosphere Reserve under threat
• Communities take care of forests

  Guyana

• Conservation International accused of "gross disrespect" to indigenous peoples
• Transnational mining companies' impacts on people and the environment
• Indigenous peoples fight for territorial rights in Guyana

  Honduras

• Forest defender murdered in Olancho
• Peasants demand Government to halt hydroelectric project
• Garifuna communities threatened by palm disease

  Mexico 

• Violent evictions in Chiapas for establishing oil palm monocultures

• Oil palm business at the expense of the poor

• Mining causes ecocide in Coahuayana, Michoacan 
• Massacre of indigenous people and peasants safeguarding their territories

• The ongoing fight of indigenous communities against illegal logging

• From Mexico to Ecuador – twinned in history, memory and resistance
• Mexico: Talking of trees
• Women suffer the effects of market opening doubly
• Stop the Forced Displacement of Indigenous Communities in Chiapas
• Complaints that Conservation International is requesting repression against Zapatistas and peasants
• 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"
• Support needed to release anti-logging campesino leader
• Opposition to deforestation in Chihuahua
• Suspected murder of Mexican activist

  Nicaragua

• Reforestation as Part of Community-Based Farm Planning in Rio San Juan
• Indigenous people win major legal battle
• Indigenous peoples' rights and the Bosawas Reserve
• Will Smartwood certify depredatory logging company?
• Australian gold mining company in the rainforest
• Hurricane Mitch devastation linked to deforestation
• Transnational logging company files suit against NGO
• Indigenous communities win battle against Korean logging company

  Panama

• Land dispute and violation of the Naso people's Human Rights
• The Naso people threatened by a dam project
• Kuna People denounce a development model that has divested them of their natural resources
• Eco-tourism alternative developed by the Kuna people
• Protected areas vs. indigenous peoples
• Mining, forests and indigenous peoples' rights

  Paraguay

• Deforestation violates human rights of indigenous peoples living in voluntary isolation
• Peasants can better confront eucalyptus advancing on their lands thanks to the experience of their Brazilian peers
• Forced contact brought illness and death to indigenous man
• So the forest does not become extinguished – the struggle of the Isolated Ayoreo Groups in the Paraguayan Chaco
• Ayoreo-Totobiegosode endangered by a cattle ranching company
• Two pieces of good news for the Totobiegosode and for Humanity
• Congress failed to support the land rights of the Ayoreo
• Deforestation Zero Law in the Eastern Region
• Uncontacted Indians in danger

  Peru

• Resistance to the Romero oil palm group
• The silent genocide of the last uncontacted indigenous groups
• Amazon peoples, bastions of resistance

• Victories of peoples’ resistance in Peru and Brazil français português

• National strike demands respect for indigenous collective rights français português

• Peru and Ecuador: The last Free Peoples besieged by oil and logging companies

• Peru/Brazil: The right to self-determination of indigenous peoples living in voluntary isolation
• Community resistance forces Yanacocha Mining Company to retreat
• Amazon Forestry Consortium threatens to evict an Ashaninka community
• Indigenous peoples and their forests threatened by gas exploitation
• Illegal loggers' invasion of indigenous community's territory
• Logging and cocaine destroy Amazon forest and threaten forest peoples
• Support requested to forest indigenous peoples in Peru
• Shell Oil menaces the Amazon indigenous in Peru

  Suriname

• The Galibi People Speak Loud and Clear on Protected Areas
• Logging and tribal rights
• Gold fever threatens forests and people in Suriname

  United States

• Hawaii: plantations stopped before starting
• Good news from Hawaii
• Hawaii: Resisting pulpwood plantations

  Uruguay

• A place where the lies about plantations are all too obvious

• A new land redistribution...in favour of forestry companies

• National Initiative for the Suspension of monoculture tree plantations

• Uruguay-Argentina: Joint struggle against a pulp-mill

  Venezuela

• Seizure of Smurfit tree plantations sets new course for the future
• "Stop it, Mr. President" say indigenous Pemon leaders
• The Pemons' struggle
• Resistance to Smurfit continues
• Smurfit's changing strategy
• Social and environmental demands to new President
• The struggle against Smurfit’s plantations
• Detention linked to Smurfit
• Forests menaced . . . plantations promoted
• Highway blockade against electric transmission line
• National Meeting in Defence of the Gran Sabana and Sierra de Imataca