Amazon: Illegal miners kill and rape indigenous people with impunity
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The Yanomami’s Hutukara Association has declared a humanitarian crisis in the wake of the reported rape and killing of a 12-year-old Yanomami girl by miners, the disappearance of a 3-year-old child, and attacks on the Yanomami’s Aracaçá village that have placed the Amazonian community “on the verge of disappearance” because of violence caused by miners.
Indigenous leader visiting Smurfit Kappa AGM: this is our traditional land!
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Huber Samir Camayo Fajardo died young, at 23 years old. He was just in the wrong place, was with his father in the field in the municipality of Cajibío, in the Columbian Cauca, when the Mobile Riot Squad, shot at him and disappeared. The killing by of Huber Samir Camayo Fajardo was announced by the Jaime Garzón Human Rights Network.
Korean Paper Company Plunders the Last Rainforests While Continuing to Claim Operations are Eco-Friendly
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Moorim Paper, Korea's second-largest pulp and paper manufacturer, claims on its website that it "thinks of the environment" by not using environmental sources. But according to a report by environmental activists in Korea and Indonesia that was released March 15, the company based in Seoul's Gangnam District has been lying. Using its subsidiary firm PT Plasma Nutfah Marind Papua (PT PNMP) in Indonesia, Moorim has been clearing more than 6,000 hectares of pristine forests in the remote province of Papua between 2015 and 2021 to produce wood chips for papermaking without having performed a proper environmental impact analysis prior to clearing the land.
How the war in Ukraine impacts on forest commodities
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The war in Ukraine is having an increasing impact on the international trade in forest products. A group of NGOs from Ukraine, in Russia and in Belarus, called for a European ban on Russia and Belarus wood and timber, of which European Union countries are among the major importers and which in 2021 represented US$13.9 billion. Wood from these regions is used in construction, to produce paper and furniture and to fuel power plants.
Welcome to Glasgow
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The good news is that over 100 world's leaders recognised it, that without protecting the world's forests, there is no hope to protect the global climate.The bad news is that the Glasgow Declaration is, actually, just a declaration. As environmental in Glasgow organisations pointed out, when a house is burning, firefighters do no waste time with declarations, they just work to extinguish the fire.