Tenth anniversary of the bulletin: Thank you all very much!
With this issue, the WRM bulletin reaches its tenth year. This anniversary provides an opportunity to give visibility to the numerous people who, in one way or another have made (Read More)
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COMMUNITIES AND FORESTS
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Benin: Large scale oil palm plantations for agrofuel
The race for agrofuels has reached Benin. With heavy support from the government and forming a key part of the “agricultural revival strategy” promoted by the IMF restructuring programme, millions (Read More)
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Bolivia: The Amazon peoples discuss their future
A forum has been opened in Bolivia to discuss the issues and the vision of the Bolivian Amazon and to give back to the indigenous peoples the dignity stolen from (Read More)
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Central Africa: Deforestation brings HIV/AIDS to indigenous communities, mainly women
Indigenous peoples living in the tropical rainforests of Central Africa are widely dispersed and identify their groups by a variety of names. Numbering a total of 300,000 to 500,000 people, (Read More)
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Ecuador: Indigenous peoples close to extinction because of illegal logging
On 27 April 2007, following a visit to the Amazon region, the President of the Republic, Mr. Rafael Correa decreed a ban on timber extraction from this area because of (Read More)
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India: A plan for the takeover of forest land by industry
In 2002, under the Tenth Plan, the Indian government set the national goal of having 33 percent of the country’s geographic area under “green cover” by 2012. The plan was (Read More)
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Mangrove Action Day (26 July) – A Global Call to Action
Since the year 2000, every July 26th has become an annual global commemorative day for the mangroves. This year’s theme is entitled “On Behalf of Indigenous and Traditional Communities and (Read More)
COMMUNITIES AND TREE MONOCULTURES
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Brazil: Indigenous Peoples re-start actions to take back their land from Aracruz
In an “Open Letter to the population and Brazilian authorities”, the Commission of Tupinikim and Guarani Chiefs and Leaders state: “Today (24/07/2007) we are starting to carry out several peaceful (Read More)
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Chile: The short-lived lies of a “successful” forestry model
Chile is where the “forestry model” introduced into the countries of the South – that is to say large-scale monoculture tree plantations, mainly aimed at producing pulp for export – (Read More)
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Congo, Republic: Thousands of hectares of land for eucalyptus, oil palm and mining
Between 1991 and 2001, Shell Renewables -a division of Shell Oil International- implemented a forestry operation based on the planting and harvesting of fast-growing cloned eucalyptus trees (see WRM Bulletin (Read More)
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Papua New Guinea: Women most affected by oil palm plantations
Extensive areas of PNG’s tropical forests have been cleared to give way to export-oriented oil palm plantations, which have been established under the “Nucleus Estate Smallholder Scheme”. This means that (Read More)
NEW TRENDS
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‘Reduced Emissions From Deforestation’ (REDD): Can Carbon Trading Save Our Ecosystems?
At the Climate Change Convention’s COP13 in Bali this year the working group on reducing tropical deforestation is due to report back. It is expected from discussions conducted so far (Read More)
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Voices from North and South against agrofuels
While the promotion of agrofuels -wrongly called biofuels- continues increasing and resulting in the establishment of more and more plantations in Southern countries to produce them, many voices of representatives (Read More)