Industrial Logging

Industrial logging opens up forests in order to extract the most economically valuable trees, leaving behind a trail of roads and destruction. Violence, corruption and illegality are often associated with the logging industry. “Sustainable management plans,” “low impact” or “selective” logging and certification schemes have only managed to cover up and perpetuate this destruction.

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puente quemado
Action alerts 10 August 2026

Please sign this letter in solidarity with the Mbya Guaraní People in Misiones, Argentina!

We are making an open call to organisations, groups and movements to sign this letter in solidarity with the Puente Quemado II Mbya Guaraní community located in Misiones, Argentina. In recent months, families have faced deforestation, evictions, criminalisation and threats from security forces, judges and individuals–all serving the interests of the timber industry.
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Other information 6 April 2026

Indonesia: Floods and landslides in Sumatra and Aceh are not a natural disaster

In this publication the Indonesian organisation Walhi denounces the country’s government classification of the floods and landslides that heavily struck Aceh, North and West Sumatra in December 2025 as a ´natural disaster´.
Energy
Other information 24 June 2025

Energy Alternatives: Surveying the Territory

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Bulletin articles 27 February 2024

How different forms of ‘green’ extractivism are causing the destruction of the Amazon forest

The Amazon region is one of the final frontiers of resistance to capital expansion. This is epitomized by the struggles of social activists such as Chico Mendes, as well as by the presence of most of the earth’s remaining indigenous peoples in voluntary isolation. However, different forms of ‘green’ extractivism are currently and increasingly advancing on this territory.
cambodia
Bulletin articles 30 March 2023

Cambodia. Rubber Plantations, Protected Areas, REDD+ and Other Threats: A Dramatic Loss for Forest Dwellers

Forests in Cambodia have seen large-scale deforestation with rubber and cassava plantations, illegal logging and other economic interests. Besides, Protected Areas and carbon projects like REDD+ have severely affected forest communities. Despite the criminalization, communities fight back, underlining the important connection between living with their forests and having autonomy to enough, diverse and nutritious food.
agroefogo
Bulletin articles 16 January 2023

South America: "Green" Destruction in the Amazon Rainforest

Most of the causes of deforestation that were identified in a UN-led global analysis from 1999 continue to exist. Yet, the “solutions” proposed since then have become new underlying causes of deforestation. In this scenario, projects that destroy the forest and “green” projects depend on each other in order to be viable.
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Bulletin articles 23 March 2022

Forest Colonialism in Thailand

British firms not only controlled 80 per cent of the established ‘logging lands’ in Thailand, but they also influenced the establishment of the Royal Forest Department, which came to have total power over the nation’s forests. Massive land grabs and various colonial laws made half the country’s territory into a colony of the central state.
concesiones
Bulletin articles 23 March 2022

Forest Concessions, Colonial Concept

What a certain historiography terms civilizational expansion or capital’s expansion has in fact been the invasion and de-territorialization of peoples and communities using much epistemic and territorial violence. Concessions have been granted in areas that are not demographic voids, a colonial concept that ignores the fact that they have been populated for millennia.
jari
Other information 22 March 2022

Jari Cellulose Group land titles in Brazil declared illegal

A Public Civil Action from the Prosecutor of Agrarian Justice in the state of Pará, Brazil, against the Jari Cellulose Group requested that part of their land titles be annulled.
Bulletin articles 4 January 2022

The Coercion of the Indonesia’s New Capital City Mega-Project and the Neglect of the Balik People’s Voices

The Balik People will bear the impacts of the plans to build a New Capital City mega-project in Borneo, Indonesia. Government officials and business elites in the country are certainly among those who will enjoy the benefits.
Available in Bahasa Indonesia.

Other information 17 December 2021

Expansion of wind energy in China and balsa wood logging in Ecuador

Bulletin articles 27 September 2021

The Sangha Region in the Republic of Congo

The Sangha region is entirely under the control of three concessions that have colonial origins and continue to deploy guards against the forest inhabitants to prevent them using their ancestral lands.