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Asia Pacific
The Asia Pacific (APac) region is the most diverse, encompassing groups from the global North and the global South.
Member groups from the region are very active in community-based struggles against mining and other extractive industries. They work hand-in-hand with indigenous peoples, peasant farmers, and fisherfolk to secure sustainable livelihoods and fight against vulnerability to “natural disasters.”
News from the region
Fisherfolk who plant trees: Turning the tide on mangrove deforestation
Planting trees seems a strange thing for a fisherman to do. And when a group of fishermen began planting mangroves on Malaysia’s west coast in the late 1990s, some people said th...
04 March, 2021
“Nobody can tell us what to do”: Agroecology as resistance
“We can’t afford to plant only one crop - we have to do what is of more benefit to us,” says Nure anak Samale (below). “And nobody can tell us what to do.” Known to frien...
21 December, 2020
Defending territories and indigenous peoples’ rights in Malaysia
Among the tropical forests and mangroves of biodiversity-rich Borneo, the indigenous communities of Sarawak have lived in harmony with nature for centuries. Threatened by deforesta...
11 December, 2020
Friends of Earth International condemns Israel’s plan to annex the major part of the Palestinian West Bank
Friends of the Earth International condemns Israel’s move to forcefully annex significant parts of the occupied Palestinian territories from 1 July 2020. The forced annexation pl...
03 July, 2020
Unprecedented bushfires in Australia and flooding in Indonesia: the devastating extremes of climate impacts
"We’re in a state of anxiety, shock and grief. Many of our staff, volunteers and the communities we work with have lost homes and environments. This is climate change. This fir...
13 January, 2020
People Power in Action: Women leading Palestine’s energy transformation
Many people in Palestine live with extreme energy scarcity. Due to Israeli occupation since 1967, local communities have no sovereignty over their energy supply. In addition to to...
26 August, 2019
Corporations ‘hijack justice’ through RCEP trade deal
Countries from across Asia convened in Melbourne this week to negotiate the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), a trade deal that would impact almost half of ...
04 July, 2019
Red Carpet Courts
Imagine an environmentally or socially destructive corporate project – say, a toxic mine, which could poison your local supply of water, or a luxury real estate project, which wo...
24 June, 2019
Plastic waste trade in crisis
In 2018 China shook the global plastic recycling system by banning imports of plastic waste. Since then our plastic production, consumption and waste systems have faced various cri...
29 April, 2019
In solidarity with the people of Sri Lanka and demand for justice
Friends of the Earth International and Friends of the Earth Asia Pacific condemn the recent brutal attacks in Sri Lanka which have left more than 250 innocent people dead and over ...
25 April, 2019
