Pulpwood Plantations: All roads lead to Rome
Whenever the expression “planted forests” is used, the concept can be traced back to the Rome-based Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). The more the concept is challenged by local peoples (Read More)
OUR VIEWPOINT
COMMUNITIES AND FORESTS
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Argentina: Chaco – land clearance, undernutrition and death
During the first fortnight of July, a wave of very cold weather crossed Argentina. In the warm lands of the Chaco Province, where the mean annual temperature is around 20ºC, (Read More)
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Cameroon: Community forests in a sea of industrial logging
I visited Cameroon in December 2006 and again in September 2007. In both trips I was shocked by the sheer number of trucks loaded with huge logs of tropical trees (Read More)
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Ecuador: Major success against mining in the Intag zone
Intag, the subtropical anti-mining area in the northwest of Ecuador will not find 26 September 2007 an easy day to forget. After months of waiting for a resolution on the (Read More)
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Honduras: The reasons for defending the forest
In Honduras, every year between 80,000 and 120,000 hectares are deforested. Our forests are multi-diverse: pine forests, with a variety of seven species; broad-leafed forests, with 200 species of trees (Read More)
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Laos: Damming the Sekong Norconsult wipes Cambodia off the map
A series of large dams are currently proposed for the Sekong River Basin in southern Laos. In addition to the tens of thousands of people in Laos who would be (Read More)
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Paraguay: So the forest does not become extinguished – the struggle of the Isolated Ayoreo Groups in the Paraguayan Chaco
In March 2007 a national and international appeal was launched against the imminent clearance and total destruction by the company UMBU S.A. of 24,000 hectares (240 Km²) of untouched pristine (Read More)
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Latin America: Redmanglar International Assembly
Between 8 and 13 October, fisher-folk organizations, artisanal gatherers, environmentalists and academics from 10 Latin American counties organized in Redmanglar International, met in the locality of Cuyutlan, State of Colima, (Read More)
COMMUNITIES AND TREE MONOCULTURES
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Brazil: Women and Eucaliptus; stories of life and resistance
The invasion of local peoples’ territories by Aracruz Celulose S.A.’s agro-industrial project, established in the sixties and seventies in Espirito Santo, caused enormous material and symbolic losses to the indigenous (Read More)
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Colombia: Is the FSC Seal Applied to Blood-Stained Timber?
Between 2001 and 2005, plywood panels manufactured by Pizano S.A., one of the largest timber companies in Colombia, could be purchased in the U.S. The panel was manufactured in part (Read More)
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Kenya: Pan Paper plans to expand its polluting operations
Earlier this year, in an attempt to discourage the use of plastic bags, the Kenyan government slapped a 120 per cent tax on plastic. While the tax may look like (Read More)
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Uruguay: Labour conditions in two FSC certified tree nurseries
For years now WRM has been documenting the social and environmental impacts of monoculture tree plantations. However, so far we had no information on the starting point in this chain: (Read More)
GE TREES
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ArborGen – the world’s biggest GM tree research company plans to get bigger
In August 2007, ArborGen signed an agreement which brings the company’s aim of being “the pre-eminent player in the global development and marketing of bio-engineered trees to the forestry industry” (Read More)
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European Forest Institute chooses to ignore the “overwhelmingly negative” social effects of GM trees
The European Forest Institute recently announced a statement in favour of research into genetically modified trees. Several of EFI’s 131 member organisations (consisting of research institutes, universities and companies) are (Read More)