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kaapor
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Sign in solidarity! Wildlife Works must GET OUT of the Ka'apor territory, in the Brazilian Amazon

Wildlife Works company (WWC) wants to carry out a carbon project in the Brazilian Amazon. But the Ka'apor indigenous people in resistance don’t want to turn nature into a commodity. Support this petition for the authorities to ban the company from operating in the Alto Turiaçu Indigenous Land.
13 May 2025
para
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Brazil: Turiwara people demand to STOP Agropalma's violence in their territories

23 August 2024
NoREDD
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Sign in solidarity: NO to REDD! Declaration of the Amazon meeting on carbon projects

Indigenous, peasant, traditional and Afro-descendent peoples from the Amazon region and Central America call organizations and social movements all over the world to endorse this declaration rejecting carbon projects in their territories.
30 July 2024
agropalma
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Palm oil in Brazil: Sign the petition to return the lands to indigenous and quilombola communities

Oil palm plantations are spreading like wildfire across the eastern Brazilian Amazon. But local communities are standing up to the palm oil industry’s brutality and sweeping land grabs, demanding the return of their ancestral lands and calling on the authorities to protect them from encroachment and violence.
6 May 2024
feronia drc
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DR Congo: Undermined by violence, a development bank mediation process requires immediate government action

24 February 2023
India conservation struggle
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Press release: Stop the Racist Conservation Model!

From 24-29 May, 2022, IUCN’s 2nd Asia Parks Congress aims to set the agenda for Protected Areas in Asia for the next ten years. Expanding Protected Areas in Asia also means expanding evictions, violence and further deforestation.
20 May 2022
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Gabon: Communities Say NO to the Great Mayumba Project

Communities in Nyanga province, Gabon, released the Bana / Mayumba Declaration in which they call for the suspension of the GRANDE MAYUMBA project, a multi-concession megaproject marketing as a so-called Nature-Based Solution.

26 November 2021
notonbs2
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More than 250 groups say NO to “Nature-Based Solutions”!

The statement calls on climate, environmental and social justice movements to unequivocally reject “Nature-Based Solutions” and all offset schemes because they are not designed to address the climate crisis. It remains open for sign-on until the end of 2021.

1 November 2021
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ALERT! Karen indigenous communities face danger after returning to their ancestral territory in Thailand

They have been living in the Kaeng Krachan forests for generations. When a National Park was created, they started to suffer violence and evictions. 22 people have been prosecuted this year. They could face a jail term of 4 to 20 years.
3 August 2021
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DR Congo palm oil company bankrolled by development banks unleashes wave of violence against villagers after peaceful protests

A young man was killed and other people are still in prison. It was after a protest against the failure of the PHC company to provide local communities with any benefits after 100 years of illegally occupying their land.

10 March 2021
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Say NO to Green Climate Fund money for REDD in Nicaragua!

We call on organizations to sign this open letter before this Friday 6th of November!!!

3 November 2020
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Community members from Mozambique and organizations around the world say NO to more industrial tree plantations

On the eve of the International Day of Struggle against Monoculture Tree Plantations, an open letter signed by more than 730 members of Mozambican communities, and 120 organizations from 40 countries has been released.

16 October 2020