Chile

Articles from the WRM Bulletin

2018

• Fires, forests and peoples: knowledge and practices under threat

• Court orders chilean company, Arauco, to return land to the Mapuche community

• Chile: Mega forest fires, corporate crime and impunity

2017

• Genetically Engineered Trees: A technology that expands monoculture plantations

• Chile: Rebuilding productive resistance after the forest fires

• Chile: New wave of forest fires

2015

• 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

• Financialisation of water: what is it all about?

• Chile: Discredited FSC label continues to legitimize industrial tree plantations  

2014

• HidroAysén project rejected by ministerial committee due to strong social pressure

• Chile: Tree plantations behind the fire in Valparaíso

• Chile: Tree plantation companies and indigenous rights, a longstanding conflict

2013

• Mapuche conflict in Chile: The need for dialogue to address historic demands

• Chile: Suspension of work on Pascua Lama mine project

2012

• 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: Campaign against tree monoculture expansion

2011

• Chile: Monoculture tree plantations on Mapuche territory, certified by the FSC?

• Chile: A disastrous forestry model with new “branches” in Latin America

2010

• 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

2009

• Chile: Opposition to government subsidies for the expansion of monoculture tree plantations

2008

• Chile: The “modern slaves” of the “forestry boom”

• Chile: Patricia Troncoso, a symbol of the Mapuche struggle against a Government at the service of forestry companies

• Chile: Documentary-maker jailed for filming a documentary on the Mapuche struggle against forestry companies

• Chile: A forestry model generating poverty and extreme poverty

• Brazil and Chile: Concern over research on transgenic trees

2007

• Chile: What is not said about work in tree plantations

• Chile: The worthless CERTFOR tree plantation certification label

2002

• 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

2001

• Chile: Tree plantations and pulp production generate poverty and destitution

• Chile: Tree monocultures threaten unique forest type

• Chile: The struggle of the Pehuenche against the Ralco Dam

• Chile: Repression or solution to the Mapuche-forestry company confrontation?

• Chile: Community forestry as an alternative model

2000

• True forests for Chile

• Chile: Wine production threatened by pulp mill project

• Chile: Will democracy prove to be different from dictatorship?

• Chile: The exploitation of forestry workers

• Chile: The debate about tree plantations heats up

• Chile: Forestry companies and security firms accused of terrorism

• Chile: forest management by indigenous communities

1999

• Gondwana Forests Sanctuary Campaign Launched in Chile

• Chile: under the shadow of Pinochet

• Chile: the Treng Treng Mapuche and their struggle for land

• Chile: the Mapuche conflict persists

• Chile: the forestry model in big trouble

• Chile: Mapuche indigenous peoples’ march to the capital city

• Chile: establishment experts and reality

• Chile: Chicago school children frighten Boise Cascade

• Chile: a severely questioned model

1998

• Chilean ecologist receives international prize

• Chile: World Bank acknowledges mistake and impacts in the Bio Bio Pangue dam

• Chile: support for the Mapuche-Pehuenche people needed

• Chile: native forests cleared for plantations

• Chile: community opposes pulp mill project

• Chile: an unsustainable forestry model

1997

• Mapuche Indigenous Peoples new web page

• Indigenous protest in Santiago, Chile

• Chile: activists against mining in Ecuador arrested

Books and Briefings

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  Monocultivos de árboles en América Latina: situación laboral y destrucción de economías locales

  Posted on August 29, 2014

  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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  The economic and social context of monoculture tree plantations in Chile: the case of the commune of Lumaco, Araucania region

  Posted on August 18, 2005

  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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Other Relevant Information

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  The dangers of transgenic trees

  Posted on May 24, 2018

  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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  Letter to FSC for complicity in crimes and impacts of industrial forestry exploitation in Chile

  Posted on November 6, 2017

  Available only in English and Spanish

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  Planting poverty: The forestry business in Chile

  Posted on March 6, 2015

  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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  When forests aren’t really forests: the high cost of Chile’s tree plantations,

  Posted on September 4, 2014

  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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  OLCA en el Día Internacional de Lucha contra los Monocultivo de Árboles

  Posted on September 21, 2013

  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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  Chile: ¡No más expansión de pinos y eucaliptus! Selección de materiales de MapuExpress por el 21 de setiembre

  Posted on September 20, 2013

  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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  Chile – WRM information sheet on GE tree research

  Posted on August 1, 2008

   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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  Chile: Letter for the de-certification by the FSC of forestry companies

  Posted on September 1, 2006

  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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  Status of Implementation of Forest-Related Clauses in the CBD: An Independent Review & Recommendations for Action

  Posted on March 18, 2002

  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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Videos

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  Short animation – Let’s define forests by their true meaning

  Posted on February 16, 2011

  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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