Continuing with the communications for September 21st, this time we would like to share with all of you a collection of videos that we have prepared together with GRAIN, on the impacts of large scale industrial oil palm plantations. The videos have been produced by several partners from around the world working against expansion of industrial oil palm plantations and they describe the impacts that local communities suffer when the expansion takes place on their territories.
Multimedia
Produced by the World Rainforest Movement
Interviews: Winnie Overbeek
Camera and Edition: Flavio Pazos.
A story of the peoples of the Atlantic Forest in southern Brazil.
In Brazil, the Atlantic Forest, which covered the country's entire coastline 500 years ago, is seriously endangered.
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Produced by the World Rainforest Movement
Directed by Flavio Pazos
The United Nations declared 2011 as the International Year of Forests
(Lao)
ປ່າໄມ້ມີຄວາມຫມາຍຢ່າງໃດຕໍ່ຊາວບ້ານ? ປ່າໄມ້ຄືຊີວິດ ການປູກຕົ້ນໄມ່ ອຸດສາຫະກຳ ແມ່ນຫຍັງ?
(Cebuano)
Unsa ang kahulugan sa kalasangan ngadto sa katawhan? Kini nga kalasangan nagkahulugan og kinabuhi. apan unsa sa pikas bahin ang plantasyon sa kakahuyan?
(Malay)
Apakah makna hutan bagi masyarakat tempatan? Hutan bermakna kehidupan Dan apa makna ladang hutan?
Produced by Gender CC, Women for Climate Justice, with the support of the WRM International Secretariat.
Animation about the differences to local people between a forest and a tree plantation.