Mountains of illegal and destructively logged timber flood onto the world's timber market. Europe plays a key role in fuelling demand for timber products. Call on the EU to ban illegal timber!

Biofuelwatch is asking organisations and local groups to sign the Open Letter which expresses concern with impacts of the global biofuel market. If you or your group want to sign, please e-mail info@biofuelwatch.org.uk.

For more info see www.biofuelwatch.org.uk

Due to an overwhelming response for participation the first ever environmental festival in Armenia will take place at two different times, April and October 2007.

The Russian government plans to invest 10 BILLION EURO to destroy a world nature heritage site. Help us stop the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi!

International Coalition to Protect the Polish Countryside (ICPPC) is calling for support in putting pressure on members of the European parliament (MEPs) to block development of a framework which allows further expansion of GMOs in Europe.

The latest newsletter is now available on the developments in the run up to the G8 protests in June 2007. There is an extra supplement on blockading and action proposals. You can find the newsletter here so you can print it, copy it, spread it, translate it, .... On the site you can also find translations in other languages of former issues.

News from the Fields and Beyond - December issue

A message from the South: WE WANT FOOD SOVEREIGNTY, NOT BIOFUELS

An open letter was sent to the European Parliament, The European Commission, The Governments and Citizens of The European Union, in which several networks from Latin American countries expressed their “deep concern over the policies that are probably to be adopted to favour the use and import of biofuel as an alternative to fossil fuels, whose disproportionate use is one of the main causes of global warming”.

www.icppc.pl

"European voters are screaming for their rights, but The Members of the European Parliament [MEP's] are deaf."

80% of European citizens have rejected GMO food!

A partner in many EYFA projects, Art Centre has been experiening difficulties with local authorities in their region of Slovenia. They were recently evicted and we're beginning a letter writing campaign and brainstorming other ways EYFA network could help support them.

www.dissentnetwork.org

Rostock, November 2006

News from the fields and beyond: In June 2007, the political elite of the world's strongest economies (the group of G8 states) will meet in Germany at Heiligendamm near Rostock to coordinate their politics. A basic tenet of this is the creation and widening of better conditions for profit making by transnational companies from the North. At the same time, thousands of people will gather to demonstrate global resistance to exploitation, oppression and capitalism.

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