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.

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Naturaleza
Bulletin articles 23 November 2017

The Rights of Nature: A balance, 10 years after its constitutional recognition in Ecuador

Bulletin articles 15 May 2017

The Daily Struggle of Kichwa Women in Sarayaku, Ecuador

Other information 8 December 2016

Ecuador: Conflict generated between Tagaeri-Taromenane indigenous peoples in isolation and an indigenous Woarani community

Bulletin articles 21 March 2016

Forests to the highest bidder in Nigeria: how REDD proves unable to stop deforestation

Action alerts 29 February 2016

Please take action: Stop the destruction of the Ekuri people’s ancestral rainforest in Nigeria

Other information 9 November 2015

Leave fossil fuels in the ground! A call for an “Annex 0” group, supported up by the Shuar Nationality of Pastaza in Ecuador

Bulletin articles 20 December 2014

AlteRAtive Energies: When the only “alternative” is integral change

Other information 31 October 2014

Ecuador: Statement of the women’s gathering against extractivism and climate change

Other information 4 July 2014

Letter to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

Other information 7 March 2014

Nigeria: social coalition demands amendment to PIB as a way of restoring transparency and accountability in the petroleum sector

Yasuní
Other information 3 December 2013

Ecuador: Demand for a popular consultation on Yasuní

Bulletin articles 2 October 2013

Ecuador: The Tagaeri Taromenane Intangible Zone in Yasuní Park