Contact: Nnimmo Bassey +216 21003908   nnimmo@eraction.org Outraged by the rampant land grabs and neocolonialism of REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest degradation), Africans at the World Social Forum in Tunisia took the historic decision to launch the No REDD in Africa Network and join the global movement against REDD. REDD+ is a carbon [...]

Irish carbon trading company, Celestial Green,  claims 17 million hectares of the Amazon  - the size of Switerland and Austria. The Munduruku People are divided and protest, threaten carbon trader with arrow to the heart… A empresa,Celestial Green, segundo seu site, já tem 17 MILHÕES de hectares contratados na Amazônia brasileira para créditos de carbono… Matéria da [...]

A modo de prólogo Entre las formas de vida contactadas con la naturaleza y aquellas contactadas con el capital Esperanza Martínez* Alberto Acosta ** Montecristi: una Constituyente renovadora y revolucionaria Cuando parecían agotarse los espacios físi­cos colonizables, la Naturaleza y sus funciones se están convirtiendo en objeto de exóticos meca­nismos de prosperidad del capital, reproducien­do [...]

21 September 2011 – On the World Day against Monoculture Tree Plantations [1], a coalition of environmental groups and Indigenous peoples organizations [2] has launched a call to the international donor community to halt the diversion of forest conservation funding to dubious schemes to “Reduce Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation and enhance forest carbon stocks” [...]

December 16th, 2010 Request sent from Amazon Watch Deadline for sign-ons: Friday, December 17, noon (NY time) Dear all, Many of us have come to know Tony James, the President of the Amerindian Peoples Association in Guyana, over the years. He has been very active in defending indigenous rights, and more recently, on issues around [...]