Plantations are not forests! WRM’s statement to mark the International Day of Struggle Against Monoculture Tree Plantations.
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Financialisation of nature: A “neoliberal and doomed approach to conservation”
Frédéric Hache of the Green Finance Observatory gave an excellent presentation at the Our Land Our Nature Congress on the Financialisation of Nature.
NGOs warn of “an impending climate and biodiversity catastrophe” if the Democratic Republic of Congo lifts its logging moratorium
NGOs warn that if the DRC government follows through with its plans to lift the country’s logging moratorium it would result in a climate and biodiversity catastrophe.
“Our Land, Our Nature”: A congress to decolonise conservation
An Alternative Congress under the slogan “Our Land, Our Nature” will highlight the dark side of conservation, rooted in racism and colonialism.
Philanthropic organisations write to the Convention on Biological Diversity with concerns about the 30×30 protected areas target in Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework
By Chris Lang In July 2021, the Convention on Biological Diversity published the first draft of the Post 2020 Global Biodiversity Framework. The UN explains that the aim is to create a “Paris-style UN agreement on biodiversity loss, to guide actions worldwide that ‘preserve and protect nature and its essential services to people’”. The draft…