This new video from LifeMosaic describes the tactics that companies use to convince communities to accept and support their projects. It’s the third in LifeMosaic’s series “Territories of Life”.
Author: Chris Lang
New forest legislation in the Democratic Republic of Congo puts credibility of REDD at stake
On 25 September 2015, the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo passed a new Ministerial Order (Arrêté 050) that creates a new category of artisanal logging concessions. The law was passed without public consultation, but will have severe impacts on local communities and forests in the country.
Interview with Cleber Buzatto, CIMI: “The REDD mechanism is not a solution to the climate problems regardless of the colour of money and funding sources”
Interview with Cleber Buzatto, Executive Secretary of CIMI (the Indigenous Missionary Council). The interview was conducted by email in August 2015.
Leaked WWF report on illegal logging in Laos: “A worst-case scenario”
A leaked WWF report exposes the scale of illegal logging in Laos. Almost all of timber exports from Laos go to Vietnam and China. In 2013, Laos exported 1.4 million cubic metres of timber to these two countries. That’s more than 10 times the official timber harvest in Laos.
Land grabs: LifeMosaic’s second video in the series Territories of Life
Grains, meat, sugar, palm oil, pulp and paper, coal, aluminium, copper, gold, oil. Just some of the commodities that corporations take from the lands of indigenous peoples to ship around the world in order to generate profits.