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
4 January 2022
We invite you to reflect with an activist who explores resistance processes and the challenges they face, based on her experience with struggles in Brazil. In this reflection, we also invite you to join the collective resistance from your own contexts and spaces of organization. The fight continues and the fight is one!
Articles
21 October 2025
We call on groups, organisations and movements to sign on to this statement to STOP the Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF). This new initiative, slated to be launched at the UN Climate Conference in November in Brazil, has been created to supposedly provide funding for forest conservation.
Publications
15 October 2025
The Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF) will be launched at the 30th United Nations Climate Conference (COP30), next November. This initiative claims to be a "new hope" for tropical forests worldwide. However, the TFFF is not about addressing the drivers of deforestation that destroy forests and threaten forest communities. On the contrary, it will tap into a financial market that drives deforestation.
Publications
7 October 2025
By Larry Lohmann, The Corner House.
Articles
29 September 2025
Press Release of Yayasan Pusaka Bentala Rakyat
Jakarta, 22 September 2025
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
Bulletin articles
24 June 2025
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.
Bulletin articles
24 June 2025
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24 June 2025
Other information
23 June 2025
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.