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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
Life in the forest in Bangladesh: Dirty energy struggles and community energy solutions
Between nuclear power plants, coal mines, and coal based-power plants, communities and ecosystems in Bangladesh are facing multiple threats from a race for ‘development’ that w...
15 December, 2021
Internationalist solidarity around the world – an update on our struggles in 2020-2021
Injustices against defenders of territories, and violations of peoples’ collective rights and human rights, are committed daily around the world. Friends of the Earth Internat...
09 December, 2021
Internationalist solidarity with Palestinian civil society
We, the undersigned, stand in firm internationalist solidarity with Palestinian Civil Society and demand the Israeli Ministry of Defense and Israel Defense Forces (IDF) reverse the...
23 November, 2021
Hemantha Withanage elected as new chair of Friends of the Earth International
Hemantha Withanage, Executive Director of the Centre for Environmental Justice in Sri Lanka has been elected as the chair of Friends of the Earth International. Hemantha follows K...
02 July, 2021
Internationalist Solidarity with Palestine
Friends of the Earth International condemns the ongoing Israeli attacks on Palestine, including the outrageous targeting of women and children, civilian structures, the bombing of ...
19 May, 2021
From car park to urban farm: The steady growth of community gardening in Penang, Malaysia
With the turmoil wrought by Covid-19 focusing minds on local food sources, the urban farm is an idea whose time has come - nowhere more so than in the Malaysian state of Penang, wh...
09 March, 2021
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 Nuie anak Sumok (below). “And nobody can tell us what to do.” Known to friend...
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, 2020Friends 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
