Category Archives: illegal logging
Environmental activist Chut Wutty shot dead in Cambodia
Note: We at Global Justice Ecology Project believe it is very important to honor our fallen heroes in the struggle for ecological and social sanity. –The GJEP Team By Chris Lang, 27th April 2012 Cross-Posted from REDD-Monitor Chut Wutty was … Continue reading
Protect the Purépecha from criminal loggers
NOTE: An urgent action alert we received today from Rainforest Rescue asks for support in protecting Purepecha forst defenders in Mexico: Eight indigenous people were brutally murdered by criminal loggers – simply because they were trying to protect their forest. … Continue reading
New Report on Illegal Logging: Exposing forest ‘untouchables’ is as important as ever
Note: The idea that the World Bank is releasing a report on combatting illegal logging is like the CIA releasing a report on combatting torture. Through its Structural Adjustment Programs and other tactics used to force developing countries to exploit … Continue reading
Panama: Wounaan Attacked By Loggers For Defending Endangered Cocobolo Trees
By Ahni, Apr 4, 2012 Cross-Posted from Intercontinental Cry Image Credit: UN News Centre Two people have died and three others are injured following a confrontation between indigenous peoples and loggers of an endangered tree in Panama. The conflict began began on … Continue reading
Biomass ‘insanity’ may threaten EU carbon targets
Cross-Posted from Euractive.com, 02 April 2012 The EU’s emissions reduction target for 2020 could be facing an unlikely but grave obstacle, according to a growing number of scientists, EU officials and NGOs: the contribution of biomass to the EU’s renewable … Continue reading
Action Alert: Indonesian Oil Palm Fires Threaten Important Orangutan Population with Extirpation
Cross-Posted from Rainforest Portal In a global tragedy for wildlife, rainforests and ecosystem sustainability; rainforest peat fires and land clearing by palm oil firms could finish killing off within weeks about 200 orangutans in an important rainforest habitat in western … Continue reading
The Tripa peatswamp in Aceh is ablaze – despite the moratorium
By Chris Lang, 28th March 2012 Cross-Posted from REDD-Monitor Dozens of fires are blazing in a peatswamp in Aceh, in the north of Sumatra, Indonesia. Some of the hotspots are in a concession area belonging to a company called PT Kallista Alam. … Continue reading
Green: Death of the Forests (Video)
A visual essay about the impact of deforestation in Indonesia as seen through the eyes of a dying orangutan Note: This post comes from one of GJEP’s supporters, long-time friend and activist Robin Lloyd, of Green Valley Media: “This is … Continue reading
Muara Tae Videoblog: The death of a forest in Indonesia
Courtesy: Environmental Investigation Agency March 2, 2012 It’s the colours and the sounds that are most striking. We had spent two days walking through lush, verdant forest – the last ancestral forests of Muara Tae. The close, varied greens teeming with … Continue reading
Video: Indonesia’s tiger habitat pulped for paper, investigation shows
Note: So much for reducing deforestation in Indonesia. But at least the tigers are being driven off the face of the earth for a good reason–disposable paper packaging. The “disposable” nature of our Industrialized world has gotten a bit out … Continue reading
