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• Intimidation and attacks against land rights defenders in DRC

  15 de octubre, puesto en línea por lucia
  On 18 September 2019, Mombulu Boyama Alphonse was arrested in Yangoma, and subsequently detained at Lokutu Police Station following a complaint against him from the General Prosecutor of Tshopo province. The complaint is related to a protest by villagers against Feronia in March (...)

• Public letter to IUFRO: Plantations are Not Forests!!!

  30 de septiembre, puesto en línea por lucia
  Public letter from Brazilian organizations to the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) World Congress, which takes place from 29th September to 5th October 2019 in Curitiba, Brazil.

• Adding Fuel to the Fire

  30 de septiembre, puesto en línea por lucia
  “Shock” is a common reaction when a crisis emerges… or when it comes to light. However, it also provides a convenient smoke screen for governments, financial institutions and companies behind which they can hide their own role in and responsibility for the current crises in the (...)

• OLAM Palm Gabon pretends to use the Forest Definition to implement its ‘Zero Deforestation’ pledge

  30 de septiembre, puesto en línea por lucia
  The Singapore-based OLAM company has secured access to 500 thousand hectares of land in Gabon to set up large-scale oil palm plantations, a country with 85% of forest coverage. How can OLAM then claim to follow a “zero deforestation” (...)

• Dynamics and Processes of Change in the Peruvian Amazon: Learning from the Kechwa-Lamas Peoples

  30 de septiembre, puesto en línea por lucia
  The government claims that small-scale agriculture is responsible for deforestation. But this claim ignores government policies that drive land-use changes and destructive markets as well as the exclusion of indigenous peoples through the creation of (...)

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