Planting trees can be very good, but it can also be very bad. It all depends what you’re planting them for, the scale and site of the plantations and the costs or benefits they bring to local populations. Large-scale plantations of rapid-growth species such as eucalyptus and pines generate most negative impacts, both in social and environmental terms. Because of the kind of impacts caused by this type of plantation, resistance struggles against them have become generalized. The response of the firms responsible for these plantations and of the people who have promoted this model of plantation has been to deny such impacts and to elaborate and disseminate campaigns of disinformation designed to win them support amongst sectors of the population who are not well-informed. Below are ten of the most common misleading statements being disseminated about large-scale mono-culture tree plantations.
Ten replies to ten lies
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9 August 1999
Issues: Struggles Against Tree Monocultures / Large-Scale Tree Plantations / Timber / Carbon Storage / FSC and RSPO / The Green Economy / Certification Schemes
Special section: 21/09/2017 / 21/09/2018
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