World Rainforest Movement
Press Release – September 1, 2006 Organizations from eight different countries are requesting the Forest Stewardship Council –a labelling scheme that certifies good forest management practices- to withdraw the FSC certificate...
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Court orders chilean company, Arauco, to return land to the Mapuche community
Genetically Engineered Trees: A technology that expands monoculture plantations
Chile: Rebuilding productive resistance after the forest fires
Transgenic trees in Chile: Urgent need to modify DNA of policies, not plants
The resistance struggle of indigenous women in defence of life
Stop the corporate fire in Chile! Forest fires and their causes
Chile: Discredited FSC label continues to legitimize industrial tree plantations
HidroAysén project rejected by ministerial committee due to strong social pressure
Chile: Tree plantation companies and indigenous rights, a longstanding conflict
Chile: Serious impacts of FSC certified tree plantation company
Chile: Mapuche communities reclaim ancestral lands stolen by tree plantation companies
Chile: Forest fires and repression, the legacy of the industrial tree plantation model
Chile: Monoculture tree plantations on Mapuche territory, certified by the FSC?
Chile: A disastrous forestry model with new “branches” in Latin America
Chile: Research provides data on the role of native forests in the production of water
Chile: Professional foresters denounce violations by company certified by CERTFOR and FSC
Chile: Resistance against a highway that will destroy forests and peoples
Chile: Poverty and wealth generated by plantation forestry companies
Chile: Police at the service of a forestry company murder a young Mapuche
Chile: Is Community-Based Forest Management Possible in the Context of a Neoliberal Economy?
Chile: Invasion of Mapuche territory by tree plantation companies
Chile: Forests burnt to substitute them by monoculture tree plantations
Chile: Tree plantations and pulp production generate poverty and destitution
Chile: Repression or solution to the Mapuche-forestry company confrontation?
Chile: Will democracy prove to be different from dictatorship?
Chile: Forestry companies and security firms accused of terrorism
Only available in Spanish By the WRM and RECOMA Download as pdf here Las empresas que promueven plantaciones en gran escala de monocultivos de eucaliptos, pinos y palma aceitera, siguen usando la generación de empleo como uno de los...
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By René Montalba Navarro, Noelia Carrasco Henríquez and José Araya Cornejo By means of testimonials, documents and figures, the present report sets out the problems faced by that commune of 11,405 inhabitants, where monoculture tree...
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Chile was to be the host of the UN Climate Summit. But in the face of a massive popular uprising against the neoliberal economic model, Chile cancelled the Summit and it was moved to Spain, yet Chile retained the Presidency of the COP. The...
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The campaign, “Territorial Voices on the MAPA Project: Testimonies about the mega-expansion of Celulosa Arauco,” seeks to shine a light on testimonies about the impacts of this project that aims to triple the production of the Celuloca...
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Transgenic Trees Will Expand the Disaster of Tree Plantations. Already in Chile monoculture plantations of pine and eucalyptus are producing terrible impacts on rural communities, on people’s health, access to water, agriculture and forests.
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Available only in English and Spanish
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This documentary produced by “Periódico Resumen” addresses the origins and consequences of the expansion of the tree plantation industry in central-southern Chile. Plantations have been expanding in Chile at a phenomenal rate and now...
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According to Global Forest Watch, Chile’s forests are expanding. On the ground, however, a different scene plays out: monocultures have replaced diverse natural forests, and tree plantations now occupy 43 per cent of the South-central...
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Only available in Spanish – Este 21 de septiembre, día internacional de la lucha contra los monocultivo de árboles, OLCA pone a disposición el documento “Cultura local y modelo forestal: una transición forzosa: El caso...
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Only available in Spanish – En el marco del día internacional de Lucha contra los Monocultivos de Árboles este 21 de Septiembre, atendiendo los graves conflictos que se han suscitado por la expansión global de...
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WRM information sheets on GE tree research First posted: 1 August 2008 Last update: August 2014 Tree species being manipulated: Pine (Pinus radiata) Eucalyptus ( globulus) Aim of genetic manipulation resistance to pine shoot moth...
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Only available Spanish and Portuguese. Comunicado de Prensa de RECOMA 16 de enero de 2008. En carta enviada a ambos gobiernos, la Red Latinoamericana contra los Monocultivos de Árboles, (RECOMA) una red descentralizada con...
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Only available in Spanish – 15 de enero de 2008 Señora Michelle Bachelet Presidenta de La República Palacio de La Moneda Santiago, Chile Sr. Alejandro Foxley Rioseco, Ministro de Relaciones Exteriores, Señora Ana Lya...
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We, the undersigned, wish to express our concern about the certification of plantations in our country by the FSC, which is granting green labels to monocultures that have proved to be socially and environmentally destructive. We are aware...
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Black-necked swans used to have their habitat in the Carlos Andwandter Nature Sanctuary on the Cruces River, a Ramsar site located in the northern zone of the city of Valdivia in the Tenth Region. The black-necked swan (Cygnus...
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Commissioned by the Global Forest Coalition This report is based on 21 country case studies, including Australia, Brazil, Cameroon, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Czech republic, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Kenya,Malaysia, the Netherlands, New...
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Also available in: Afrikaans, Aymara, Catala, Chinese, Dutch, Finish, German, Bosnian, Italian, Maori, Mapuche, Maya Kaqchikel, Maya Popti, Maya Tseltal, Maya Tsotsil, Swedish, Vietnamese and Zulu Following FAO’s criterion for the...
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