Forests

Read more about Fires and Monoculture Threaten Life in La Chiquitanía, Bolivia

By Diana Pastor (Maya K'iche', CS Staff) and Belén Iñiguez (CS Staff)

Read more about Greenpeace Report Details Land-grabbing Against the Baka in Cameroon

Photo By C. Hance - This place is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, listed as Dja Faunal Reserve., CC BY-SA

Singapore-based rubber company Halcyon Agri, and its subsidiary in Cameroon, Sudcam, have been exposed in a report released by Greenpeace in July 2018 as extremely dangerous to the Indigenous Baka community and a local wildlife reserve.

Cameroon: Stop Palm Oil Plantations from Destroying Africa’s Ancient Rainforests and Local Livelihoods

Read more about Cameroon: Stop Palm Oil Plantations from Destroying Africa’s Ancient Rainforests and Local Livelihoods

A New York based company is clearing rainforest for a huge monoculture palm oil plantation despite protests from local Indigenous groups.

Ethiopia: Stop Land Grabbing and Restore Indigenous Peoples' Lands

Read more about Ethiopia: Stop Land Grabbing and Restore Indigenous Peoples' Lands

Soldiers are forcing Indigenous Peoples off their homelands to benefit foreign agro industries.

Cambodia: Help Us Save Prey Lang (“Our Forest”)

Read more about Cambodia: Help Us Save Prey Lang (“Our Forest”)

Help Indigenous Kuy communities stop destruction of this unique primary forest.

United States: Urge President Obama to Block Construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline

Read more about United States: Urge President Obama to Block Construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline

This pipeline from Canada’s Tar Sands to the Gulf Coast threatens water sources, cultural sites, agricultural lands, animal life, and public health.

Russia/China: Pipeline Threatens Sacred Highlands

Read more about Russia/China: Pipeline Threatens Sacred Highlands

Construction threatens World Heritage Site, national parks, and sacred lands of the Telengit people.

Honduras: Don't Dam the Patuca River!

Read more about Honduras: Don't Dam the Patuca River!

A Chinese dam project threatens Central America’s largest tropical rainforest and Indigenous populations.

Bangladesh: Ban Coal Mine, Save Forests and Farms

Read more about Bangladesh: Ban Coal Mine, Save Forests and Farms

Phulbari open-pit mine would displace thousands of Indigenous people.

Read more about Campaign Update: Cambodia– Youth Impressions on Prey Lang Forest

Read more about Good News – Cambodia Campaign: Prime Minister Institutes Moratorium on Land Concessions

Read more about Campaign Update: Cambodia –Anti-Logging Activist Chut Wutty Shot Dead

Cultural Survival is deeply saddened and angered by the killing of Chut Wutty at the hands of Cambodia military police.

Wutty was a great ally to the campaign to Save Prey Lang and the director of the Cambodian environmental watch dog the Natural Resource Protection Group. He was shot yesterday by military police while engaged in field research into illegal logging and land seizures in the Cardamom mountains.