Struggles for the Forests

When corporations destroy forests, or restrict or even prohibit access to forest peoples' territories, they place communities' ways of life and their very existence at risk. WRM supports forest peoples' struggles to defend their territories, and their right to decide how to live, and how to use the forests they depend on.

Bulletin articles 10 August 2015

Liberia: Vambo Community Activists ask for international support against gold mining

Bulletin articles 10 August 2015

Living on the run: devastation of the Ayoreos’ lives and land at the hands of livestock farmers

Bulletin articles 10 July 2015

Mining activity kills Indonesia’s peasants and fisher people

Bulletin articles 10 July 2015

Mining, militarization and criminalization of social protests in Latin America

Bulletin articles 10 July 2015

Testimony of unsustainability: The experience of the International Articulation of those affected by Vale

Bulletin articles 11 March 2015

Learning from India’s Chipko movement: fighting for feminism and for the environment

March 8 is not just a day to celebrate and give visibility to women’s struggles, it is also a day to remember and appreciate the valuable inspiration they provide for every other struggle today. One example is the Chipko women’s movement in India, and the struggle they have led for nearly 40 years to protect forests and resist tree monocultures.