More than 100 social leaders from across Colombia have already been assassinated in 2020. Between March 19 and 20, 2020, in the course of 24 hours, three social leaders in Colombia were murdered. One of the victims were Ivo Humberto Bracamonte Quiroz, the social leader of Norte de Santander Department near the Venezuelan border. In…
The Panamazónico Social Forum (FOSPA) will be held in the city of Mocoa, Colombia, on the 13-16th of November 2020. It was supposed to be held on the 22-25th of March 2020 but is postponed till November due to COVID-19. Mocoa is located in the Amazon rainforest region of Colombia. In March 2017, a large…
Forest with wood anemones (Anemone nemorosa). Foto: Birgitta Tulin. Today, the 21st of March, is the United Nations’ International Day for Forests. The forest is home to about 80 percent of the world’s terrestrial species. The forests comprise over 60,000 known tree species. Deforestation continues at an alarming rate, causing large emissions of greenhouse gases.…
One of the forests planned for logging at Maskaure. Photo: Björn Mildh The state-owned forestry company Sveaskog will sell and harvest a total of 2,600 hectares of woodland in Maskaure Sami village in Arjeplog municipality, Norrbotten, Sweden. This is no coincidence, write Leif Lundberg from Maskaure Sami village, Johanna Nilsson, Marcus Lidström and Björn Mildh…
A forest in Maskaure Sami village which Sveaskog is intending to clear-cut. Photo: Björn Mildh. The state-owned forestry company Sveaskog is planning to log 32 forests, 400 hectares in total, in the grazing pastures of Maskaure Sami village in Arjeplog municipality, Sweden. Sveaskog has already sold over 9,000 hectares of forest within the Sami village’s…
