News and success stories
Stay in the loop with news of ongoing campaigns and successes in the fight against rainforest destruction.
Links to new reports on agrofuels
http://www.biofuelwatch.org.uk/declarations.php
No to the agrofuel craze!
In the process of gathering material from colleagues and social movements around the world, we have discovered that the stampede into agrofuels is causing enormous environmental and social damage, much more than we realised earlier. Precious ecosystems are being destroyed and hundreds of thousands of indigenous and peasant communities are being thrown off their land. (GRAIN Press release) http://www.grain.org/agrofuels/
GRAIN has just published a special issue of Seedling which focusses on biofuels, or as we like to call them, agrofuels* - over 30,000 words of indepth analysis from around the world.
In the process of gathering material from colleagues and social movements around the world, we have discovered that the stampede into agrofuels is causing enormous environmental and social damage, much more than we realised earlier. Precious ecosystems are being destroyed and hundreds of thousands of indigenous and peasant communities are being thrown off their land. (GRAIN Press release) http://www.grain.org/agrofuels/
Response of environmentalists to Malaysian and Indonesian Palm Oil PR initiative
The Malaysian and Indonesian governments, and Malaysian Palm Oil Council, are undertaking a PR tour promoting Palm Oil production. This week a series of talks and seminars with EU legislators are being given in London, Brussels and Holland. (nur auf Englisch verfügbar) Prepared by Watch Indonesia! http://home.snafu.de/watchin and www.biofuelwatch.org
South Africa and GMOs and Deforestation and Illnesses
An excellent video clip on palmoil and climate
This explains why the proposed EU biofuels directive threatens rainforest and peatlands in South East Asia
Kenya: UNEP Meeting Warns of Dangers of Biofuel Production
WE WANT FOOD SOVEREIGNTY, NOT BIOFUELS
Open Letter to the European Commission, Parliament, Union and citizens WE WANT FOOD SOVEREIGNTY, NOT BIOFUELS