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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4 August 2026
We call on human rights organizations, Indigenous Peoples, social movements, labor unions, academic institutions, networks of solidarity, and civil society organizations around the world to join this urgent call.
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22 December 2025
Statement of condemnation regarding violations committed by BR Arbo Gestão Florestal and its REDD+ Mejuruá project in the state of Amazonas, Brazil
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1 December 2025
We call on organizations, groups and movements to sign this letter demanding that the authorities immediately stop a logging company from clearing land in the territory of the Puente Quemado II Guaraní Community, in Colonia Garuhapé, Misiones Province.
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31 October 2025
Indigenous, peasant, and Afro-descendant women from different Latin American countries are calling on organizations and social movements around the world to sign on to this declaration rejecting carbon market projects in their territories.
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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.
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19 December 2024
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30 July 2024
Indigenous, peasant, traditional and Afro-descendent peoples from the Amazon region and Central America call organizations and social movements all over the world to endorse this declaration rejecting carbon projects in their territories.
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12 January 2023
Demand that the Suzano company stops destroying quilombola territories in the south of Bahia, Brazil
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10 June 2022
(Only in Portuguese) Será realizada no dia 11 de junho em Cruzeiro do Sul, Acre, Brasil
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20 May 2022
From 24-29 May, 2022, IUCN’s 2nd Asia Parks Congress aims to set the agenda for Protected Areas in Asia for the next ten years. Expanding Protected Areas in Asia also means expanding evictions, violence and further deforestation.
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10 March 2022
Ahead of vital UN moment for biodiversity, "nature-based solutions" are once again being erroneously heralded as the solution.
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26 November 2021
Communities in Nyanga province, Gabon, released the Bana / Mayumba Declaration in which they call for the suspension of the GRANDE MAYUMBA project, a multi-concession megaproject marketing as a so-called Nature-Based Solution.