latest actions
Friends of the Earth groups and partners need your help - it only takes a minute or two to send an e-mail in support of one of the actions below. If you want to keep informed of our actions please join the cyberactivist network mailing list (you will typically get 1 or 2 e-mails each month).
Stop the violence: Demand the closure of the Marlin Mine
Demand immediate closure to marlin mine in Guatemala. The cause of enormous social and environmental devastation in the community of Nueva Esperanza.
ban mining with cyanide in Costa Rica
Please call on the new President of Costa Rica to ban the environmentally and socially disastrous Crucitas mining project.
human rights observers killed in mexico
Friends of the Earth International is shocked and saddened to announce the murders of two human rights observers in Mexico last month.
chile earthquake rebuilding fund
On February 27, Chile suffered a magnitude 8.8 earthquake, followed by a series of aftershocks and tsunamis. The catastrophes devastated the cities of Concepción and Talca, as well as numerous coastal towns and villages. Please help Chile with their relief work.
stop the eviction of families in the Lacandon Jungle
Friends of the Earth International condemn the police operations in the state of Chiapas, which have evicted families from the Biosphere of Montes Azules, Lacandon Jungle. The evictions were made to make way for palm oil plantations. Your help is needed in calling for an end to the evictions and the proposed development.
Justice for the assassinated Union Fenosa activists
On February 17, 2010, Victor Galvez a leader of the Natural Resources and Indigenous Peoples Rights group (FRENA) became the third member of the group to lose his life in suspicious circumstances. FRENA is involved in exposing the excessive charges levied by energy company Unión FENOSA in Guatemala. Your help is needed in denouncing and calling for an investigation into these deaths.
Justice for Gilberth Rojas and the Ostional Community
On the night of December 6, 2009 the house of Gilberth Rojas, a Costa Rican community leader, was burnt down. Gilberth, his wife and three volunteers narrowly escaped death. This was not an isolated event, it was one of many relating to the expulsion of the Ostional community from their land. Your help is needed to denounce these attacks and protect the community.
