Excessive paper consumption: The impacts of injustice
In the world of today, many millions of people’s level of consumption does not even cover their basic needs. In plain language, these are millions of people – mostly children (Read More)
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COMMUNITIES AND FORESTS
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Papua New Guinea: Large-scale Logging and Human Rights Abuses
PNG’s social, political and economic histories have been moulded by its tropical forests. Covering 60 per cent of the PNG land mass and largely impenetrable, the forests have limited trade, (Read More)
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Colombia: The Bari people in defense of their territory
The Bari people, a minority belonging to the Arawak family known as the Children of the Forest, inhabit the Catatumbo Basin in the north of the Department of Santander. The (Read More)
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Commemorating the Mangrove Action Day on July 26th
In 2000, July 26th was first chosen as a day for the mangroves based on its great significance for the movement in Latin America led by Red Manglar (Mangrove Network). (Read More)
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Cultural links to the forest: The web of health
Many cultural systems are intimately interconnected with forested environments, whether the people live within the forest or on the forest fringe (including city dwellers and researchers studying culture). Forest based (Read More)
COMMUNITIES AND TREE MONOCULTURES
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Brazil: Pataxó, eucalyptus and the sustainability of Veracel Celulose
The case of Veracel Celulose is useful – as are so many others – in revealing the falseness of business discourse on “sustainability.” Veracel is a modern company, owned in (Read More)
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Chile: The people of Mehuin again oppose the Celco pulp company
The coastal village of Mehuin is located in the Northeastern zone of the Province of Valdivia, on the borders of the ninth and tenth regions of Chile. It is a (Read More)
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Chile: The Ñielol forest – witness to lies on forests and plantations
The Ñielol hill located near the city of Temuco in Chile’s Ninth Region, is a faithful witness to the numerous lies circulating both in this region and in many others (Read More)
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Uruguay: The Botnia pulp mill project intends to profit from climate change
The Finnish company Oy Metsä-Botnia Ab (Botnia’s trade name) established in 1973, is the second largest pulp producer in Europe. It has four subsidiary companies, two of which are located (Read More)
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Indonesia: From oil palm plantations, with repression…
Extensive cultivation of oil palm and the resulting oil extraction have always been linked to repression. Plantation cultivation was originally established by colonial regimes. The rapid expansion of plantations in (Read More)
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Indonesia: Oil palm plantations encroaching on communities’ traditional land
The environment in West Kalimantan has changed radically over the past 25 years. Much of the forest that supported communities’ livelihoods has been cut down and the land allocated to (Read More)
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Peru: The Amazon forest threatened by oil palm plantation projects
Oil palm plantations are expanding in South America: Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela and now Peru have joined the commercial thrust. The companies find profitable opportunities at the expense of the invaluable (Read More)
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Uganda: Oil palm plantations that brought high winds and low wages
The accelerated destruction of rainforest and indigenous woodland in Uganda, making way for palm oil and sugar production, follows an all too familiar pattern that has been seen in other (Read More)