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The World Rainforest Movement (WRM) is a global network of citizens groups, both North and South, involved in efforts to defend the world's rainforests. It works to secure the lands and livelihoods of forest peoples, and support their efforts to defend forests from commercial logging, dams, mining, oil exploitation, plantations, shrimp farms, colonisation and settlement, and other projects that threaten them.

The WRM's international secretariat is headquartered in Montevideo, Uruguay. With the Forest Peoples Programme and FERN functioning as the Northern support office, providing campaigning support to the movement's affiliates and keeping governments based in the North well informed.

The WRM distributes a free monthly electronic bulletin to serve as a tool to disseminate information about local struggles and global processes which may affect forests and peoples. The WRN Bulleting is produced in English, French, Portuguese and Spanish and reaches more than 800 individuals and organisations in over 60 countries.

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The WRM was established in 1986 when Christopher Holeman and Elizabeth Ortman initially focused its activities on the flaws in the Food and Agriculture Organization's and World Bank's Tropical Forestry Action Plan and countering the excesses of the tropical timber trade and the problems of the International Tropical Timber Organisation (ITTO). In 1989 the WRM published the Penang declaration[1] which sets out the shared vision of WRM's members. As well as identifying the main causes of deforestation and singling out the deficiencies of the main official responses to the forest crisis, the declaration highlights an alternative model of development in rainforests based on securing the lands and livelihoods of forest peoples.

In June 1998 the WRM published the Montevideo Declaration[2] and launched its campaign against large scale monoculture tree plantations. The WRM plantations campaign works against the negative impacts that large plantations have at the local level, on both local communities and their environment [3] and aims to raise awareness about and organise opposition to this type of forestry development.

In May 2000 the WRM produced the Mount Tamalpais Declaration [4] which sets out why the WRM believes carbon sinks are leading to forest loss, climate change and social inequality. In Marrakesh in 2001, as governments at the 7th Conference of the Parties to the Climate Change Convention put the final touches on the decision that made carbon sink projects eligible for credits under the Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), a group of NGOs from the World Rainforest Movement formed SinksWatch, an initiative to track and scrutinize carbon sink projects related to the Kyoto Protocol.