Rainforest Protests: World Rainforest Movement
| Mission: | to bring awareness and to protect rainforests around the world |
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| Founder: |
 Nicole sorochan,
Victoria |
| Description: | The most important direct causes of deforestation include the conversion of forest lands for agriculture and cattle-raising, urbanization, road construction, industrial logging, mining, oil expoitation, construction of oil and gas pipelines, shrimp farming (in the case of mangroves), fires and the construction of huge hydroelectric dams. Large-scale monoculture tree plantations to ensure the global paper industry with cheap raw material, are also a direct cause of deforestation as in many cases they have been preceded by firing or clearcutting of native forests. However, the real motor behind all these activities being carried out in an unsustainable and predatory way, is the "development" model currently in force. This model implies the unrestricted exploitation of the totality of the planet's resources, with the aim of feeding an ever-growing consumer market, in particular in the Northern industrialised countries. Inequality in terms of exchange between North and South that has generated an increasing and unpayable foreign debt, obliging more and more resources to be exploited and extracted, just to pay off its service, has increased devastation. The International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, regional multilateral banks and the World Trade Organisation have been fundamental in this process, promoting and supporting governments to centre their efforts to orient production towards exports, with the aim of complying with the foreign debt service. Furthermore, structural adjustment programmes imposed by these organisms has implied that the States have "shrunk", with the consequence that there is a lack of human and financial resources at State level to address forest protection and sustainable management. In most cases, the hidden causes of deforestation and forests degradation are related to macro-economic strategies offering strong incentives to obtain short term profits, instead of seeking sustainability in the long term. Deeply rooted social structures are also important, causing unequal land tenure and discrimination of indigenous peoples, of subsistence farmers and of poor people in general. In other cases, political factors are at stake, such as the lack of participatory democracy, military influence and exploitation of rural zones by urban elites. (taken from The World Rainforest Movement) |
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| Tags: | agriculture deforestation farming cattle logging Peru rainforest protests reaising pipelines shrimp tree plantations amazon belgium |
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News & Discussions
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Videos
Privatizing rainforests and Carbon Emissions Trading -with Incredible Underwater Protest Footage
09 December 2010 | Democracy Now! Carbon Trading Pros Cons Cancun Climate Talks...
Connected to: Greenhouse Gases Water Impacts Forest Impacts Emperilled Ecosystems Global Meltdown Climate Change and Government Direct Action Fired Up Media Rainforest Protests: World Rainforest Movement The effects of Mining worldwide Copenhagen Climate Change Summit Endangered Species
09 December 2010 | Democracy Now! Carbon Trading Pros Cons Cancun Climate Talks...
Connected to: Greenhouse Gases Water Impacts Forest Impacts Emperilled Ecosystems Global Meltdown Climate Change and Government Direct Action Fired Up Media Rainforest Protests: World Rainforest Movement The effects of Mining worldwide Copenhagen Climate Change Summit Endangered Species
President of the World Bank Speaks at COP16 on Behalf of Indigenous People?!
FluxRostrum | 10 December 2010 | 7 likes, 0 dislikes Robert Zoellick President of the World Bank Speaks at the COP16 Avoided Deforestation Partners Advancing Redd+ New Pathways and Partnerships......
Connected to: Greenhouse Gases Water Impacts Forest Impacts Emperilled Ecosystems Climate Change and Government Direct Action Fired Up Media Rainforest Protests: World Rainforest Movement Copenhagen Climate Change Summit Endangered Species World People’s Conference on Climate Change
FluxRostrum | 10 December 2010 | 7 likes, 0 dislikes Robert Zoellick President of the World Bank Speaks at the COP16 Avoided Deforestation Partners Advancing Redd+ New Pathways and Partnerships......
Connected to: Greenhouse Gases Water Impacts Forest Impacts Emperilled Ecosystems Climate Change and Government Direct Action Fired Up Media Rainforest Protests: World Rainforest Movement Copenhagen Climate Change Summit Endangered Species World People’s Conference on Climate Change
End the Fossil Fuel Regime: COP 16 - Indigenous People March for Life & Climate Justice
FluxRostrum | 06 December 2010 | 16 likes, 1 dislikes The March for Life & Climate Justice started at La Via Campesina in Cancún and worked it's way to the 0km mark by the Hotel Zone to honor......
Connected to: Greenhouse Gases Water Impacts Forest Impacts Emperilled Ecosystems Global Meltdown Climate Change and Government Direct Action Repower America Fired Up Media Rainforest Protests: World Rainforest Movement The effects of Mining worldwide Copenhagen Climate Change Summit Endangered Species
FluxRostrum | 06 December 2010 | 16 likes, 1 dislikes The March for Life & Climate Justice started at La Via Campesina in Cancún and worked it's way to the 0km mark by the Hotel Zone to honor......
Connected to: Greenhouse Gases Water Impacts Forest Impacts Emperilled Ecosystems Global Meltdown Climate Change and Government Direct Action Repower America Fired Up Media Rainforest Protests: World Rainforest Movement The effects of Mining worldwide Copenhagen Climate Change Summit Endangered Species
Jane Goodall Speaks at the COP 16
FluxRostrum | 09 December 2010 | 0 likes, 0 dislikes Jane Goodall at the Avoided Deforestation Partners Advancing Redd+ New Pathways and Partnerships Press Confernce. Distributed by Tubemogul....
Connected to: Forest Impacts Emperilled Ecosystems Climate Change and Government Direct Action Rainforest Protests: World Rainforest Movement Copenhagen Climate Change Summit Endangered Species
FluxRostrum | 09 December 2010 | 0 likes, 0 dislikes Jane Goodall at the Avoided Deforestation Partners Advancing Redd+ New Pathways and Partnerships Press Confernce. Distributed by Tubemogul....
Connected to: Forest Impacts Emperilled Ecosystems Climate Change and Government Direct Action Rainforest Protests: World Rainforest Movement Copenhagen Climate Change Summit Endangered Species
Costa Rica: Gold or Green?
United Nations | 22 November 2010 | Costa Rica has a reputation as a peaceful oasis in Central America, a region that is often ravaged by war. It is also proud of its rain forests and animal......
Connected to: Water Impacts Emperilled Ecosystems Rainforest Protests: World Rainforest Movement The effects of Mining worldwide Endangered Species
United Nations | 22 November 2010 | Costa Rica has a reputation as a peaceful oasis in Central America, a region that is often ravaged by war. It is also proud of its rain forests and animal......
Connected to: Water Impacts Emperilled Ecosystems Rainforest Protests: World Rainforest Movement The effects of Mining worldwide Endangered Species
Former Chevron/Texaco Worker in Ecuador: We Dumped Pollution into the Rainforest
AmazonWatch | 27 October 2010 A former oil operations assistant for Texaco (now Chevron) in Ecuador explains how oil workers were told to dump toxic waste directly into the rainforest environment.......
Connected to: Greenhouse Gases Forests and Sinks Water Impacts Forest Impacts Emperilled Ecosystems Direct Action Fired Up Media Rainforest Protests: World Rainforest Movement The effects of Mining worldwide Endangered Species
AmazonWatch | 27 October 2010 A former oil operations assistant for Texaco (now Chevron) in Ecuador explains how oil workers were told to dump toxic waste directly into the rainforest environment.......
Connected to: Greenhouse Gases Forests and Sinks Water Impacts Forest Impacts Emperilled Ecosystems Direct Action Fired Up Media Rainforest Protests: World Rainforest Movement The effects of Mining worldwide Endangered Species
Beating Chevron to the punch: "We Agree" in D.C.
countercamera | 21 October 2010 [final] Oct. 18, 2010. Rainforest Action Network, Amazon Watch and the Yes Men organize a counter-campaign to ask Chevron if "We Agree???" Chevron's "We Agree"......
Connected to: Greenhouse Gases Water Impacts Emperilled Ecosystems Pop Culture Campaigns Green Innovation Direct Action Green Marketing & Messaging Rainforest Protests: World Rainforest Movement The effects of Mining worldwide Endangered Species
countercamera | 21 October 2010 [final] Oct. 18, 2010. Rainforest Action Network, Amazon Watch and the Yes Men organize a counter-campaign to ask Chevron if "We Agree???" Chevron's "We Agree"......
Connected to: Greenhouse Gases Water Impacts Emperilled Ecosystems Pop Culture Campaigns Green Innovation Direct Action Green Marketing & Messaging Rainforest Protests: World Rainforest Movement The effects of Mining worldwide Endangered Species
Big Oil's Greenwashing: Chevron We Agree: Renewables TV Ad
Chevron | 15 October 2010 For more information, visit: http://www.chevron.com/weagree . Is it time oil companies get behind renewable energy? Chevron's TV ads show the common ground we all share......
Connected to: Greenhouse Gases Water Impacts Emperilled Ecosystems Pop Culture Campaigns Wind Power Technologies Solar Energy Wind energy technologies Rainforest Protests: World Rainforest Movement The effects of Mining worldwide Endangered Species
Chevron | 15 October 2010 For more information, visit: http://www.chevron.com/weagree . Is it time oil companies get behind renewable energy? Chevron's TV ads show the common ground we all share......
Connected to: Greenhouse Gases Water Impacts Emperilled Ecosystems Pop Culture Campaigns Wind Power Technologies Solar Energy Wind energy technologies Rainforest Protests: World Rainforest Movement The effects of Mining worldwide Endangered Species
UN summit aims to shape global strategy to save world's biodiversity
unitednations | 18 October 2010 United Nations, New York, 18 October 2010 - Delegates from across the world have gathered in the Japanese city of Nagoya today for a United Nations conference......
Connected to: Forests and Sinks Forest Impacts Emperilled Ecosystems Global Meltdown Climate Change and Government Rainforest Protests: World Rainforest Movement Endangered Species
unitednations | 18 October 2010 United Nations, New York, 18 October 2010 - Delegates from across the world have gathered in the Japanese city of Nagoya today for a United Nations conference......
Connected to: Forests and Sinks Forest Impacts Emperilled Ecosystems Global Meltdown Climate Change and Government Rainforest Protests: World Rainforest Movement Endangered Species
Killer Squids, Walking the Amazon & Containing Greenhouse Gases
ROCKETBOOM | 02 September 2010 Molly reports on Apple, giant squids and more! ...
Connected to: Science of Climate Change Greenhouse Gases Water Impacts Emperilled Ecosystems Global Meltdown Sustainable Seafood Rainforest Protests: World Rainforest Movement Endangered Species
ROCKETBOOM | 02 September 2010 Molly reports on Apple, giant squids and more! ...
Connected to: Science of Climate Change Greenhouse Gases Water Impacts Emperilled Ecosystems Global Meltdown Sustainable Seafood Rainforest Protests: World Rainforest Movement Endangered Species
