Meetings were held twice a year, hosted by one of the participating groups and coordinated by Saskia Ozinga.Īctivities of the groups participating in the European Rainforest Movement helped forest peoples’ struggle in places such as Sarawak, Malaysia and the Amazon become headline stories. We decided to remain a loose movement with no formal membership or secretariat. At a meeting in Munich, Germany, the group renamed itself the European Rainforest Movement, the European arm of the World Rainforest Movement. Its focus was no longer Japanese companies, but tropical rainforests and support for forest peoples in general. They originally met under the heading ‘Ban Japan from the Rainforest’.īy 1992 the group had expanded considerably in size and in the issues it dealt with. The FME began in 1989 when a group of NGOs from several European countries joined efforts to stop Japanese companies’ destruction of rainforests.
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