Brazil

The largest industrial pulp and paper complex in Brazil, the ‘Vale da Celulose’ (Cellulose Valley), located in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, underscores that the true legacy of the industry centered around eucalyptus monoculture is small, disorganized towns, environmental impacts, and the struggle of farming families to survive amidst the green wasteland.

(Only in Portuguese) Os grupos e entidades que assinam esta nota exigem a imediata libertação de Mandyn Pataxó e a retirada de todas as acusações imputadas a ele, para que seus direitos sejam efetivados e o povo Pataxó possa continuar com sua existência pacífica defendendo seu território das invasões de grileiros, milicianos e toda sorte de criminosos que há séculos devastam e mercantilizam suas terras ancestrais.

Declaração da Rede Alerta contra os Desertos Verdes.

In this video, a beekeeper denounces how the plantations of the Suzano company, one of the giants in the sector, are responsible for the death of his bees. The images were recorded in December 2025.

A decisão favorece a permanência de 30 famílias indígenas no território, impedindo ações de despejo ou intimidação da empresa Agropalma na área ocupada, e reforça a competência federal para julgar conflitos envolvendo direitos indígenas.

Uma decisão judicial acendeu o alerta de iminente episódio de violência no campo, no Pará. O Tribunal de Justiça do estado determinou a reintegração de posse da Fazenda Roda de Fogo, em decisão favorável à empresa Agropalma, autorizando o uso de força policial na ação de despejo de 30 famílias indígenas da Aldeia Tukano Sawa.

Statement of condemnation regarding violations committed by BR Arbo Gestão Florestal and its REDD+ Mejuruá project in the state of Amazonas, Brazil

The government of the Brazilian state of Pará – host of the COP30 climate conference – introduced an annual “Week of Awareness on the Importance of Carbon Credits”, the Indonesian government sets up a “Seller meets buyer” sales booth for carbon credits at the COP. These are the more visible signs of climate talks that are more concerned about creating business opportunities than halting the climate crisis.

Whether they are in Brazil, amidst eucalyptus plantations, or in Thailand, surrounded by oil palm plantations, women suffer specific impacts from these monocultures. Women are on the frontlines of the resistance to these projects, which exploit and devastate the land in pursuit of profit. This is what two peasant activists fighting to defend the land – one from Brazil and one from Thailand – tell us.

The following excerpts are from conversations we had with people who, despite living on different continents, have made the same choice: to live without electricity. Whether they live in the Indonesian archipelago or the Brazilian Amazon, their testimonies show that electricity is not an essential resource for human life. On the contrary, for these people, it is essential to do without it.

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.

On the side-lines of the UN climate conference in 2023 in the United Arab Emirates, the government of Brazil introduced the “Tropical Forests Forever Facility” (TFFF). The fund, an idea initially thought up by the World Bank in 2018, is expected to be launched at the 2025 UN climate conference in the Amazon city of in Belem, in Brazil. Private sector and public investments and donations would provide the seed capital for financial managers to speculate on capital markets.