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September 21, the International Day Against Monoculture Tree Plantations, is a day for organizations, networks and movements to celebrate resistance and raise their voices to demand, “Stop the Expansion of Monoculture Tree Plantations!” These plantations threaten the sovereignty of communities and peoples. The Day was launched in 2004 at a meeting of a community network struggling against industrial tree plantations in Brazil; September 21 was chosen because it is the Day of the Tree in Brazil.
On occasion of September 21st, International day of Struggle against Tree Plantations, women from several countries from West and Central Africa have taken the initiative to release simultaneously the petition we enclose below. The...
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On September 21st we celebrate the International Day of Struggle against Tree Monocultures. This date, that was launched in 2004, in Brazil, by the Alert against the Green Desert Network, serves to create a special moment in the year to...
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On September 21st we celebrate the International Day of Struggle against Tree Monocultures. This date, that was launched in 2004, in Brazil, by the Alert against the Green Desert Network, serves to create a special moment in the year to...
read more On September 21st we celebrate the International Day of Struggle against Tree Monocultures. This date, that was launched in 2004, in Brazil, by the Alert against the Green Desert Network, serves to create a special moment in the year to...
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On September 21st we celebrate the International Day of Struggle against Tree Monocultures. This date, that was launched in 2004, in Brazil, by the Alert against the Green Desert Network, serves to create a special moment in the year to...
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September 21, the International Day Against Monoculture Tree Plantations, is a day for our organizations, networks and movements to celebrateresistance and raise our voices to demand, Stop the Expansion of Monoculture Tree Plantations!...
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September 21, the International Day Against Monoculture Tree Plantations, is a day for our organizations, networks and movements to celebrateresistance and raise our voices to demand, Stop the Expansion of Monoculture Tree Plantations!...
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On September 21st 2011, International Day of Struggle against Plantations, we call once again on the FAO to define forests by its true meaning.
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Indonesia: Timber monocultures destroying indigenous’ lands and livelihood
The International Day against Monoculture Tree Plantations around the world
September 21st – International Day against Monoculture Tree Plantations
Myth No. 9: Oil palm plantations help mitigate climate change through the production of agrodiesel
Myth No. 6: Plantations are necessary to supply the growing need for paper
Myth No. 3: Plantations are much more productive than native forests
Myth No. 15: Planting trees to produce biochar can help to mitigate climate change
Myth No. 13: Genetic Modification is Useful and Necessary for Improving Trees
Myth No. 10: Timber plantations help to address climate change through the production of ethanol.
This report was produced by a coalition of civil society organisations in the DRC and Europe. It builds on a June 2015 report that brought international attention to the human rights violations, poverty, labour exploitation and land grabs...
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New briefing: “Industrial Tree Plantations Invading Eastern and Southern Africa” In the context of emerging global trends in respect of escalating climate change, growing economic disparity, and increasing land degradation,...
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The briefing, “Impactos en el agua de las plantaciones industriales de árboles”, (Industrial tree plantations impacts on water), is a tool aimed at supporting local communities that suffer from the negative impacts of tree...
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This report aims at strengthening the struggles of all those who are opposing large-scale oil palm plantations in the global South. After expanding in Indonesia and Malaysia for decades, large expansions have more recently been occurring...
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By Ricardo Carrere, WRM. 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....
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On September 30, a petition was delivered with 12,323 signatures from several national and international organisations, as well as from individuals, in solidarity with and support to the communities in Mozambique that struggle against the...
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Only available in Spanish or Portuguese 21 de setiembre de 2016 Día Internacional de Lucha contra los Monocultivos de Árboles Descargar como pdf aquí Este 21 de setiembre, las organizaciones integrantes de La Red Latinoamericana Contra...
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Joint Release from World Rainforest Movement, Friends of the Earth International and Global Forest Coalition Groups call for Action on 21 September: International Day Against Monoculture Tree Plantations Large-scale monoculture tree...
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read more In 2004, September 21st was declared as International Day against Monoculture Tree Plantations by a number of organizations throughout the world. On this day, people in every continent carry out actions to generate awareness on the impacts...
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This new short video, made by Global Justice Ecology and Project and Stop Genetically Engineered Trees, summarizes the ten top lies of the timber and pulp industries in their justification of destroying native forests for the expansion of...
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WRM releases five short videos which shows why industrial tree plantations are not forests. The first one is about the impacts of large-scale tree plantations in general. The other remaining four focus on specific topics: oil palm...
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