Rebecca Wilson
COP16: is biodiversity offsetting a false solution?
Indigenous groups, ecologists, scholars, and NGOs have spoken out against the idea of biodiversity markets, emphasizing their lack of effectiveness and stressing that the protection of ecosystems should be rooted in local knowledge and community-led governance rather than top-down market solutions.
COP16 and biodiversity markets: Indigenous peoples meaningfully included?
Today, 21 October 2024, in Cali Colombia, the COP16 conference begins. This will be a platform for promoting the concept of biodiversity credits and biodiversity markets. But what do these terms mean, and what is at stake, especially for Indigenous peoples and local communities?
New LAB book ‘The Amazon in Times of War’
LAB is excited to announce that on 8 October we will release our latest title in partnership with Practical Action Publishing: The Amazon in Times of War by Marcos Colón. Read on for details about the book and the author's UK book tour, including a launch event in London on Saturday 19 October.
FILM: The Future is in Our Territories
In a new LAB film, environmental defenders discuss their territorial work and the Americas-wide alliance for racial and climate justice
Latin America Bureau’s Achievements & Performance 2022-3
LAB had a busy 2023... We published articles on COP28, memory and Milei, the rise of narcomining in Ecuador, Indigenous beekeeping in Mexico, water...
Huge win for environmental defenders in Colombia; book and film recs for the...
Dear LAB subscribers,
This is the final newsletter you’ll receive this year. Thanks to all of you who've kept up with our newsletters and our reporting...
Colombia: open-pit mine threatens municipalities near Bogotá
In August this year, the owners of two fincas in the Gualivá province of Cundinamarca, just outside of Bogota, were sent expropriation orders by...
‘El Eco’: a poetic portrait of growing up in rural Mexico
Tatiana Huezo’s award-winning feature-length documentary, El eco sensitively and poetically presents a year in the life of a rural Mexican community.
Join our Treasure(r) Hunt and Book Launch, plus news from the...
This month, we focused on Bukele's contraversial footage and gang violence vs. civil rights; Water Defenders and Guapinol activists; attacks on Afro-Colombian memory; Ashaniká women's filmmaking and Chico Mendes' influence in India.
Crimes against Guapinol defenders reflect neglect from Honduran government
'The Government is responsible for these two murders, and Xiomara Castro must provide an explanation,’ declared ERIC-SJ researcher Joaquín Mejía Rivera, in the wake of the killing of two environmental defenders in Guapinol.
