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
8 July 2026
What is being promoted globally as ‘clean energy’ is revealing expanding frontiers of mineral extraction shaped by conflict and cross-border tensions. In the Mekong and Salween basins, mining activities are destroying forests and polluting rivers and watersheds, particularly in Myanmar, one of the world’s most important exporters of heavy ‘rare earth’ minerals.