The World Rainforest Movement is an international network of citizens’ groups of North and South involved in efforts to defend the world’s rainforests.
It works to secure the lands and livelihoods of forest peoples and supports their efforts to defend the forests from commercial logging, dams, mining, plantations, shrimp farms, colonisation and other projects that threaten them.
The World Rainforest Movement was established in 1986 and initially focused its activities on the flaws in the FAO and World Bank’s Tropical Forestry Action Plan” and countering the excesses of the tropical timber trade and the problems of the International Tropical Timber Organisation.
In 1989