Study finds agriculture and deforestation accelerate soil erosion 100 times...
By Joshua E. Brown / University of Vermont A new study shows that removing native forest and starting intensive agriculture can accelerate erosion so dramatically that in a few decades as much soil is...
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Washington Post: Number of trees has fallen by 46 Percent since advent of...
By Chris Mooney / The Washington Post In a blockbuster study released Wednesday in Nature, a team of 38 scientists finds that the planet is home to 3.04 trillion trees, blowing away the previously...
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Gold mining boom threatens communities in Suriname
By Apoorva Joshi / Mongabay This is the second in a two-part series on gold mining in Suriname. Read the first part. Gold mining in the small South American country grew by 893 percent between 2000...
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Inside the indigenous movement to protect India’s commons
By Pushpa Achanta / Waging Nonviolence In early October, news emerged that India’s Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change was blocking the implementation of a high-level government panel’s...
View ArticleRenewed Defense of British Columbia’s Central Walbran Ancient Forest
Bobby Arbess aka Reuben Garbanzo / Friends of Carmanah/Walbran Sixty years of logging have left only five percent of the primary low-elevation ancient temperate rainforests of Vancouver island...
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Logging the Walbran Valley: An Open Letter to Teal Jones
Editor’s Note: This letter, published at Vancouver Island Community Forest Action Network, is addressed to Canadian timber company Teal Jones Group in regards to the planned logging of Walbran Valley....
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Pinyon-Juniper Forests: An Ancient Vision Disturbed
By Will Falk / Deep Green Resistance Standing in a pinyon-juniper forest on a high slope above Cave Valley not far from Ely, Nevada, I am lost in an ancient vision. It is a vision born under sublime...
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Will Falk: Pinyon-Juniper Forests: The Oldest Refugee Crisis
Editor’s Note: this is the second of a multi-part series of pinyon-juniper deforestestion. The first part can be found here. By Will Falk / Deep Green Resistance Featured image by Max Wilbert My...
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Pinyon-Juniper Forests: BLM’s False Claims to Virtue
By Will Falk / Deep Green Resistance Featured image: The author surveying the devastation of Pinyon-Juniper deforestation (Photo: Max Wilbert) Once I recovered from the shock I experienced witnessing...
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Death Threats and Detention in Paraguay
NEW REPORT DOCUMENTS CHALLENGES OF DEFENDING INDIGENOUS LAND RIGHTS IN THE PARAGUAYAN CHACO By Fionuala Cregan / Intercontinental Cry Featured image: Members of the the Ayoreo community of Cuyabia....
View ArticleAttempted Murder of Prey Lang Community Network Activist
By Cultural Survival We are the Prey Lang Community Network (PLCN), a group of Kuy ethnic volunteers who join together to protect the Prey Lang Forest, which has been part of our lives for many...
View ArticleNews Round-Up: mid-April 2016
Recent news from various Deep Green Resistance chapters: Will Falk published another essay in support of DGR Great Basin’s campaign to save the Pinyon-Juniper Forests: The Language of Pinyon-Juniper...
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To Save a Rainforest
By Zoe Blunt / WildCoast.ca “I’m in love. With salmon, with trees outside my window, with baby lampreys living in sandy streambottoms, with slender salamanders crawling through the duff. And if you...
View ArticleBlockade Disrupts Klamath Salvage Logging
By Dan Bacher / Intercontinental Cry In the early morning hours before daybreak on May 2 in the fire-impacted conifer forest near Seiad Valley in the Klamath River watershed, 27 people including Tribal...
View ArticleToxic Range: BLM’s Growing Chemical Addiction
This article originally appeared on Counterpunch By Katie Fite / Wildlands Defense BLM is escalating herbicide use on public lands in the wake of the September 2015 Sage-grouse Plan Amendments and the...
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Survival International: The Ayoreo
By Survival International Of the several different sub-groups of Ayoreo, the most isolated are the Totobiegosode (‘people from the place of the wild pigs’). Since 1969 many have been forced out of the...
View ArticleConflict Soy: if you think soy is a healthy alternative to the meat and dairy...
Featured image: Combine harvesters crop soybeans during a demonstration for the press, in Campo Novo do Parecis, Brazil, on March 27, 2012. By Phys.org. By Manuela Picq / Intercontinental Cry Soy has...
View ArticleNorthern Nicaragua Coast Crisis
By Carlos Enrique Maibeth-Mortimer / Intercontinental Cry There is a crisis erupting in Nicaragua’s North Caribbean Autonomous Region that spans across all social and economic boundaries, affecting...
View ArticleNews round-up: fossil fuel trains, Santa Barbara chapter, report from...
DGR Lower Columbia members report on publicy supporting underground resistance at a coal export terminal EIS hearing. DGR Seattle needs signatures on an open letter demanding that BNSF Railway stop...
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The Language of Pinyon-Juniper Trees
Will Falk / Deep Green Resistance Great Basin Pinyon cones Photo by Katie FiteAfter two months of struggling to write anything coherent about pinyon-juniper forests, I was on the verge of giving up....
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