Come participate in the Forest Forum on Globalization and the WTO, and hear about the key threats facing global forests and biodiversity due to the current agenda of the WTO. Topics include indepth coverage on how WTO negotiations on investment, tarriffs & non-tarriff barriers, labelling and government procurement threaten to speed deforestation.

Learn from forest activists committed to promoting fair trade through community managed forests, sustainable certification processes, and new trade policies. View a compelling slide show on the state of the global forests, and solutions for a sustainable future.

Participate in drafting a direct response to government negotiators and plan forest alert actions for the duration of the WTO Ministerial. The full day of events includes twenty speakers include representatives from the Zona Maya Community Foresters & Wood Producers, and forest activists from Mexico, Chile, Venezuela, Uruguay, Japan, Indonesia, Canada, and the US.

Sponsored by Union Nacional de Organizaciones Regionales Campesinas Autonomos, Organizacion de Ejidos Productores Forestales de la Zona Maya, Pacific Environment, American Lands Alliance, Friends of the Earth- Japan, International Forum on Globalization and Global Exchange, FERN, World Rainforest Movement.

For further information please contact:

Cynthia Josayma, Pacific Environment
cjosaymapacificenvironment.org
Tel: 510-251-8800 x 313
Jason Tockman, American Lands Alliance:
tockmanamericanlands.org