World Rainforest Movement
The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) is a certification scheme, set up in 1993, to certify, based on a set of principles and criteria, so-called “sustainable forest management”. In 1996, it decided to also certify industrial tree plantations, leading to many protests around the world from communities and supportive organizations, regarding the many negative impacts that involve such plantations for local communities. Also questions have been raised around the true sustainability of the model of “sustainable forest management”.
We invite organizations to sign on and support the statement, which denounces that the RSPO, since it was created 14 years ago, has been a tool that served the corporate interests of the oil palm sector
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Veracel – which belongs to the Swedish-Finnish company Stora Enso and the Norwegian-Brazilian company Aracruz Celulose – is attempting to obtain certification for its plantations established over 78,000 hectares in the extreme...
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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...
read moreTanzania: Community Resistance against Monoculture Tree Plantations
Certification promotes land concentration, violence and destruction
Two bright shining lies teaming up: Certification roundtables and REDD+
Chile: Discredited FSC label continues to legitimize industrial tree plantations
Brazil: The countless problems surrounding the Suzano corporation
‘Sustainable Forest Management’: the ‘change’ that keeps destroying
RSPO: fake promises promoting further oil palm plantations expansion
Liberia – RSPO’s inability to address root causes of the conflict related to Sime Darby’s operations
Indonesia – How RSPO addressed concerns raised against First Resources, one of its members
Forests Plunder: discourse of ‘sustainability’ hides destruction caused by logging
South Africa: The killing of Baboon in FSC-certified timber plantations
FSC and Veracel Celulose: Certification that is neither reliable nor independent
Chile: Monoculture tree plantations on Mapuche territory, certified by the FSC?
Brazil: The case of Plantar – the FSC at the service of the sale of carbon credits
The myth of GHG emissions reductions from “Sustainable Forest Management”
Chikweti plantations in Mozambique: Will the FSC continue certifying the uncertifiable?
For many years WRM has been denouncing the FSC certification of monoculture tree plantations. The scale of these monocultures is one of several reasons for such opposition. Large-scale tree plantations occupy vast areas of land leading to...
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Plantations are monocultures, created from seemingly endless rows of identical trees. They suck the water out of nearby streams and ponds and lower the water table, leaving little or no water for people living near the plantations. They...
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By Ricardo Carrere The aim of this report is to provide documented information and analysis to all those who are currently struggling against large-scale monoculture tree plantations and must face the additional problem posed by the fact...
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By the World Rainforest Movement Concern over the spread of tree monocultures and their certification is at the centre of this book. However, this concern is merely one part of much broader concerns concerning forests, forest peoples’...
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ARTE, the European TV channel, broadcasted a documentary about FSC entitled: “The exploitation of primary forests: Can an ecolabel stop the forest industry?” Journalists traveled to several countries to investigate what FSC...
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RSPO is the most widely used voluntary certification system for palm oil companies and it hold its 3rd African Sustainable Palm Oil Conference in Accra, Ghana on August 2019. But Friends of the Earth Africa groups exposed it as a...
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On November 12, with the endorsement of organizations from five continents, Friends of the Earth International and World Rainforest Movement publish an open statement denouncing the failure of the RSPO to eliminate the violence and destruction that oil palm plantations.
read more We invite organizations to sign on and support the statement, which denounces that the RSPO, since it was created 14 years ago, has been a tool that served the corporate interests of the oil palm sector
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The Campaign to STOP Genetically Engineered Trees (CSGET) Urges FSC to Disassociate from Suzano/FuturaGene In the next few days, Brazil’s biosafety commission will be considering petitions from forestry company Suzano, owner of...
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FSC Watch . In July 2010, Suzano Pulp and Paper bought the biotechnology company FuturaGene, which for the past 8 years has been carrying out field trials of genetically engineered eucalyptus. In January 2014, FuturaGene applied to...
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“Credibility at Stake – How FSC Sweden Fails to Safeguard Forest Biodiversity”, a new report in English by the Swedish Society for Nature Conservation (SSNC), available...
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“World Summit on Sustainable Forest (-destruction)”, a satirical blog on the summit that will be held on March 5th-6th 2013 in Stockholm (Sweden). You are invited to attend or follow this World Forgery Summit on sustainable forest...
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“Sustainable on Paper”, a documentary film by journalists An-Katrien Lecluyse and Leopold Broers released in Belgium in 2011, is now available on the internet. The film broadly denounces the FSC certification of plantations...
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For over a decade, the World Rainforest Movement has been denouncing that -by certifying large scale tree plantations- the FSC is greenwashing the destructive activities of plantation companies in Southern countries (for further...
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WRM Press Release on Open Letter to FSC Members – The General Assembly of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) is meeting in Cape Town, South Africa, from 3-7 November. Coinciding with the opening of the event, an open letter is...
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November 3-7, 2008 – Cape Town, South Africa The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) will be holding its general assembly on November 3-7 in Cape Town, South Africa. Given that the FSC is still providing its certification label to...
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The undersigned wish to urge members of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) to urgently resolve the serious problem of FSC certification of monoculture tree plantations, at the FSC general assembly to be held in Cape Town, South...
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Press Release – September 17 – 2007 The wood-pulp producing company Veracel has applied for FSC certification of its tree plantations in the Brazilian state of Bahia and the evaluation process is being carried out by the...
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By Benjamin D. Hodgdon – A recent article by Chris Lang entitled “Laos: FSC Certified Timber is Illegal,” published on the World Rainforest Movement website, details the findings of a report that describes illegal logging inside...
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By the Alert Against The Green Desert Movement/Brazil The harshness of capital against life but Aracruz Celulose lost the FSC-certificate! On June 1st 2006, the Seminar on “The Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the Advance of...
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Only available in Portuguese – Introdução O FSC-Brasil tomou a iniciativa para organizar um encontro em Belo Horizonte no dia 18 de outubro de 2005 com o objetivo de coletar contribuições para o processo global de revisão dos...
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Only in available in Spanish – Por Javier Baltodano – Grupo de Trabajo en la Revisión de las Políticas de Certificación a Grandes Plantaciones FSC . Introducción: Como parte del proceso de revisión de las políticas de...
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By Ricardo Carrere – This study provides general background information on two of the main companies involved in the certification of tree plantations under the FSC system, and documents the reactions and denunciations provoked by...
read more This book includes a selection of articles published in the World Rainforest Movement’s (WRM) Bulletin on the issue of Forest Stewardship Council certification of tree plantations. The level of detail and analysis varies from article...
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It is important to begin by highlighting the fact that to receive FSC certification, a plantation company needs to comply with all FSC’s principles and not only with the principle concerning plantations specifically– principle...
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