Ecuador's $3.6bn scheme to save its rainforest from exploitation could point the way to sparing other threatened landscape

President Alan Garcia of Peru has refused to sign a law that would give indigenous people more power to stop oil and mining projects on their lands.

LIMA, Jun 17, 2010 (IPS) - An energy deal that Peru and Brazil signed this week in the Amazon city of Manaus in Brazil is opposed by environmentalists and local indigenous communities in Peru where the planned hydroelectric dams will be built. What is at stake?

May 22, 2010

BIODIVERSITY LOST AT UNPRECEDENTED RATE

On the day of biodiversity Friends of the Earth International calls for urgent action to tackle biodiversity loss

With biodiesel from soybeans playing the leading role, Argentina is beginning to require plant-based fuel blends for all vehicles.

International condemnation of detention of Palestine activist by Israeli forces

Nnimmo Bassey, Chair of Friends of the Earth International sums up the last two weeks of climate talks in Copenhagen from the backroom deals to rise of the Climate Justice movement.

Honduran coup government continues repressive tactics on election day (Report from San Pedro Sula)

CENSAT ‘Agua Viva’ strongly condemns the murder of Mariano Abarca

WASHINGTON, Oct 28 (IPS) - The story began almost 40 years ago, but when filmmaker Joe Berlinger "saw villagers eating canned tuna fish because the fish in their rivers were too contaminated to eat, [he] knew [he] had to do something".

The undersigned human rights NGOs and civil society networks condemn the violations of human rights by the de facto government in Honduras.

On the day that the European Union was expected to announce the suspension of its new free trade negotiations with Central America, Friends of the Earth International calls for an end to the process of free trade negotiations that the EU is promoting in Central America, and recommends a full reconsideration by the EU of its role in the region

Young Friends of the Earth write school reports on nation’s willingness to act on Climate Change during the recent Climate Talks in Bonn. Several of them get very bad notes..