News - Forests and Climate Change

Amazon Indians unite against Canadian oil giant

19th Mar 2013
Amazon Indians from Peru and Brazil have joined together to stop a Canadian oil company destroying their land and threatening the lives of uncontacted tribes. (Survival International)


Indigenous women fight climate change

15th Mar 2013
Ancestral knowledge and wisdom are applied to confront changes to farming calendars. (Latinamerican Press)


Indonesian governor proposes opening protected areas to logging

17th Feb 2013
The governor of Indonesia's Aceh Province on the island of Sumatra has proposed opening up more than 50,000 hectares of protected forest to logging, according to a new analysis by an Indonesian environmental group. (Butler / Mongabay)


Interview with Tejo Pramono (La Via Campesina) and Elisha Kartini (SPI) about REDD

27th Mar 2012
“REDD is just a project that the industrial countries use to try to keep their economic benefits” (REDD Monitor)


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