Indigenous Peoples' Struggles
Articles
22 December 2025
Joint Press Release.
Bulletin articles
15 December 2025
Costa Rica presents itself as a global pioneer in implementing Jurisdictional REDD+, and it advertises this as a success. However, indigenous communities denounce coercion on the part of the state, which makes acceptance of this initiative a condition for it to invest in health or education. In this article, a member of the Bribri people talks about their struggle.
Articles
5 December 2025
Comunicado de prensa. Más de 100 organizaciones de 20 países adhirieron a una carta para exigir al Ministerio de Ecología de la provincia de Misiones, Argentina, que detenga de manera urgente el desmonte en el territorio de la Comunidad Guaraní Puente Quemado II.
Action alerts
1 December 2025
We call on organizations, groups and movements to sign this letter demanding that the authorities immediately stop a logging company from clearing land in the territory of the Puente Quemado II Guaraní Community, in Colonia Garuhapé, Misiones Province.
Articles
25 June 2025
Civil Society Response to the Indonesian Government's Reply to the Letter from Nine UN Special Rapporteurs Regarding the Merauke National Strategic Project
Action alerts
13 May 2025
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.
Articles
23 April 2025
Kami mengundang Anda untuk berpartisipasi dalam peluncuran virtual film dokumenter baru, tersedia dalam Bahasa Indonesia, tentang perlawanan masyarakat adat dan tradisional terhadap percepatan REDD dan proyek pasar karbon lainnya atas hutan dan wilayah mereka. Ini akan terjadi pada hari Rabu 30 April.
Other information
23 April 2025
Samling is a notoriously destructive Malaysian logging, plantations and construction company which has faced decades of opposition from indigenous peoples such as the Penan and the Kenyah for destroying their customary lands. In December 2023, the Samling subsidiary SaraCarbon listed a carbon project in the Malaysian state of Sarawak in the registry of the carbon standard provider Verra.
Multimedia
1 April 2025
Video - Militarised deforestation in Papua: how Indonesia is converting indigenous forest into farms
The Indonesian government’s food estate programme aims to convert 1.6 million hectares of land in Papua into rice fields and sugar cane plantations, annexing indigenous lands in the process. Thousands of troops have been sent from Java to support President Prabowo Subianto’s signature policy. Video made by The Gecko Project.
Articles
19 February 2025
Invitamos este lunes 24 de febrero a participar del lanzamiento virtual para Latinoamérica de este documental sobre la resistencia de comunidades indígenas y tradicionales al avance de REDD y otros proyectos del mercado de carbono sobre sus territorios.
Multimedia
19 February 2025
Made in 2024 on the initiative of indigenous communities in the Amazon, Latin America, the documentary brings together experiences, reflections and testimonies of Indigenous Peoples and traditional communities who decided to say NO to REDD and other carbon projects, which they identify as a threat to their territories and cultures.