Forest much more than timber, Blog dedicated to the dissemination of multiple alternatives that exist for this type of ecosystem, other than wood, mainly from the perspective that deliver the Non-Timber Forest Products today linked to the WRM (World Rainforest Movement), World Rainforest Movement Tropical, gives us the possibility to reach many more people in our effort to contribute a bit in the constant struggle trying
preserve our forests is for this reason that to achieve this kind of recognition is extremely encouraging, so I wanted to share it with you.
The World Rainforest Movement Tropicales (WRM) is an international network of citizens' groups of North and South involved in efforts to defend the world's forests.
works to ensure the land and the livelihoods of forest-dwelling peoples and supports their efforts to defend the forests from commercial logging, dams, mining, oil, plantations, shrimp farms, colonization and other projects that threaten them.
The World Rainforest Movement Tropical Forests was founded in 1986 and initially focused its activities on the flaws of the Tropical Forestry Action Plan of the FAO and the World Bank, to confront the excesses of the tropical timber trade and the problems created by the International Timber Trade (ITTO). In 1989, the WRM published the "Declaration of Penang", in establishing a shared vision of the members of the Movement. As well as identifying the main causes of tropical deforestation and identify the shortcomings of the main official responses to the crisis of deforestation and highlights an alternative model of development for tropical forests, based on ensuring the land and means of survival of forest-dwelling peoples.
In 1998, the WRM published the "Declaration of Montevideo" and initiated a campaign against large-scale monoculture tree plantations, which are increasingly being implemented in many countries, especially in the South. These plantations have already been shown to have negative impacts at the local level, both on communities and on their environment. The goal of the campaign is to raise awareness and organize opposition to this type of forest development.
WRM joined the Global Secretariat of the Joint Initiative to Address the Underlying Causes of Deforestation Forests, Intergovernmental Forum process linked to Forest. It is also the institution that serves as headquarters for the Global Forest Coalition, an organization founded by a group of NGOs and Indigenous Peoples Organizations involved in international processes related to global forest policy.
In May 2000, the WRM published the "Mount Tamalpais Declaration", urging governments not to include plantations as carbon sinks in the Clean Development Mechanism of the Kyoto Protocol United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and address the issue of industrial emissions separately from forest plantations.
In May 2002, a group of NGOs and Indigenous Peoples participating in the 4th. Preparatory Meeting for the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) in Johannesburg, saw the need to recognize indigenous and community management of forests as a viable tool to alleviate poverty and conserve forests and livelihoods of people dependent them. Thus, establishing the Global Caucus on Community-Based Forest Management, which the WRM is a member of its executive committee and focal point for South America.
In January 2003, when the Third World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, a group of representatives of Latin American NGOs created the Latin American Network against Monoculture Tree and elect the Secretariat of the WRM and network. The Network has since then coordinating efforts at the continental level to oppose the forest model based on monocultures of trees and to promote a use compatible with forest conservation and improving the quality of life of those who inhabit them.
In January 2004, at the World Social Forum in India, WRM part in the development of "Mumbai Initiative on Forests", draft statement of principles intended as a first contribution to the beginning of a process building global solidarity between movements, groups and individuals working on issues related to forests at local, national and international. The WRM distributes a monthly
an electronic newsletter in English, Portuguese, English and French, which is a tool for the dissemination of information on local struggles and global processes that affect forests and local people, and that at the present time reaches over 10,000 individuals and organizations in 131 countries worldwide. Also disclose relevant information and documentation in 4 languages \u200b\u200bthrough its website and in printed form.
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