SARAWAK, Malaysia, February 24, 2025 (ENS) – In a victory for Indigenous communities defending their customary lands, the timber company Samling Timber Malaysia has withdrawn several of its timber concessions […]
BELEM, Brazil, August 11, 2023, (ENS) – Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva this week hosted a two-day regional summit of the eight Amazon River basin countries seeking a plan to save the world’s largest rainforest. At their meeting in Belem on August 8 and 9, the eight leaders had intended to reach consensus on issues from deforestation to sustainable development in the Amazon in the first such conference in 14 years. […]
BARAM, Sarawak, Malaysia, July 25, 2022 (ENS) – Indigenous Penan communities have filed a police report and erected blockades to put a permanent stop to logging of the mountain Batu Siman in northern Sarawak, a Malaysian state on the island of Borneo… […]
GLASGOW, Scotland, November 1, 2021 (ENS) – “The six years since the Paris Climate Agreement have been the six hottest years on record. Our addiction to fossil fuels is pushing humanity to the brink,” United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned the opening session of COP26 today. “We face a stark choice: Either we stop it — or it stops us.” […]
BRASILIA, Brazil, October 7, 2015 (ENS) – Greenpeace today delivered a bill banning all deforestation in Brazil to members of the Brazilian National Congress. Since 2012, the draft bill has been signed by 1.4 million Brazilians. […]
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