Places Archives: Forests

Agriculture, Biodiversity & Habitat Destruction, Colonialism & Conquest, Repression at Home, White Supremacy, Indigenous Autonomy

Uncontacted tribe’s land invaded and destroyed for beef production

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This article originally appeared in Survival International. Featured image: Piripkura men Baita and Tamandua, photographed during an encounter with a FUNAI unit. The two men, who are uncle and nephew, have had sporadic interactions with the local FUNAI team, but returned to live in the forest. © Bruno Jorge New overflight photos have revealed that the land of one … Continue reading Uncontacted tribe’s land invaded and destroyed for beef production →
The Problem: Civilization, Human Supremacy, Climate Change, Culture of Resistance, Listening to the Land, Featured

Climate change is muting fall colors, but it’s just the latest way that humans have altered US forests

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This story first appeared in The Conversation. By Marc Abrams Fall foliage season is a calendar highlight in states from Maine south to Georgia and west to the Rocky Mountains. It’s especially important in the Northeast, where fall colors attract an estimated US$8 billion in tourism revenues to New England every year. As a forestry scientist, I’m often asked how climate … Continue reading Climate change is muting fall colors, but it’s just the latest way that humans have altered US forests →
The Problem: Civilization, Colonialism & Conquest, Culture of Resistance, Listening to the Land, Featured, Agriculture, Biodiversity & Habitat Destruction, Climate Change

The Problem

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This is an excerpt from the book Bright Green Lies, P. 1-7 By LIERRE KEITH “Once our authoritarian technics consolidates its powers, with the aid of its new forms of mass control, its panoply of tranquilizers and sedatives and aphrodisiacs, could democracy in any form survive? That question is absurd: Life itself will not survive, … Continue reading The Problem →
The Problem: Civilization, Colonialism & Conquest, Featured, Biodiversity & Habitat Destruction, Indigenous Autonomy, Listening to the Land

Our Health Depends on Indigenous Botanical Knowledge and Plants That Are Rapidly Being Destroyed

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This article originally appeared in Common Dreams. The decline is one of the effects of the industrial modernization that is supposed to have brought increasing comfort, health, and advanced knowledge into our lives. By JOHN BUELL Southwest Harbor, Maine (Special to Informed Comment) – While mainstream media celebrate the remarkable development in record time of vaccines … Continue reading Our Health Depends on Indigenous Botanical Knowledge and Plants That Are Rapidly Being Destroyed →
Featured, Biodiversity & Habitat Destruction, Mining & Drilling, Toxification, Direct Action, Indigenous Autonomy, Property & Material Destruction, Repression at Home

Indigenous Environmental Defenders Shut Down Peruvian Crude Oil Pipeline

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This article originally appeared in Common Dreams. By JULIA CONLEY “Not a single drop of oil is going to come out of the Amazon until the government takes care of us,” said campaigners. Demanding stronger social and environmental support in northern Peru’s Loreto region, about 200 Indigenous protesters on Wednesday announced a strike two days … Continue reading Indigenous Environmental Defenders Shut Down Peruvian Crude Oil Pipeline →
Colonialism & Conquest, Repression at Home, Indigenous Autonomy, Listening to the Land, Movement Building & Support

Ayoreo appeal to Inter-American Commission to save their forest from destruction

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This article originally appeared in Survival International. Featured image: The Ayoreo have previously blocked the trans-Chaco Highway to draw attention to government inaction over the destruction of their forest. © GAT/ Survival The survival of the last uncontacted tribe in South America outside the Amazon is at stake. Indigenous people living in a South American forest with one … Continue reading Ayoreo appeal to Inter-American Commission to save their forest from destruction →
The Solution: Resistance, Featured, Biodiversity & Habitat Destruction

Protect The Elliott State Forest – DEADLINE TOMORROW

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via Doug Pollock / Friends of OSU Old Growth Creating a Positive Future for the Elliott State Research Forest (ESRF): It’s important to be aware of the history and shortcomings of both OSU’s forest management and the Elliott process so we can choose a more positive path going forward. I’ve provided an update on the … Continue reading Protect The Elliott State Forest – DEADLINE TOMORROW →
The Problem: Civilization

My Message to the Western World: Your Civilization is Killing Life on Earth

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We Indigenous people are fighting to save the Amazon, but the whole planet is in trouble because you do not respect it by Nemonte Nenquimo / Originally published in The Guardian, Oct. 12 2020 Featured image: Waorani leader Nemonte Nenquimo shows evidence of crude oil contamination in the northern Ecuadorian Amazon rainforest. Photograph: Mitch Anderson … Continue reading My Message to the Western World: Your Civilization is Killing Life on Earth →
Biodiversity & Habitat Destruction, Climate Change

Peril In The Hills: Extreme Weather A Danger For Nilgiri Ecosystem

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Godwin Vasanth Bosco reports on extreme precipitation that has fallen on the Nilgiri plateau of southern India the last few years. These extreme and unprecedented rain events have led to massive landslides and other ecological damage. Little has been done to address the crisis. Featured image: A massive landslide in one of the largest sholas … Continue reading Peril In The Hills: Extreme Weather A Danger For Nilgiri Ecosystem →
Biodiversity & Habitat Destruction, Direct Action

Grassroots Forest Defenders Establish Third Blockade to Defend Vancouver Island Old Growth Forest

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A third blockade has started to stop the logging of near the headwaters of Fairy Creek. To learn more about the blockade in Fairy Creek, read the media release by the organizers of the blockade, and listen to interviews with Joshua Wright here and here. Access the official Facebook page here. Two weeks into a … Continue reading Grassroots Forest Defenders Establish Third Blockade to Defend Vancouver Island Old Growth Forest →