Women for Forests and Future Generations: Defending Communities from Pandemics and Climate Chaos

Aug 27, 2020 | Women's Earth and Climate Action Network
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Global forests are on the brink of ecological catastrophe, and because of this, further driving the climate crisis and environmental degradation. Record setting fire seasons, deforestation, and industrial-scale logging, mining and extraction are destroying irreplaceable ecosystems. In the face of violence against land defenders, the coronavirus, and forest destruction, diverse groups of women are rising.

From the tropical to temperate rainforests, women are organizing to restore damaged forest ecosystems, protect vital old-growth forests, and uphold Indigenous rights while exposing the intertwined root causes of forest destruction: extractive economies, corporate greed, endless consumption, Indigenous rights violations, colonization, and gender injustice.

Who: Women's Earth and Climate Action Network 

Where: Online

When:  27 August 2020    Time: 02:00 PM EST