Bulletin Issue 131 – June 2008

The high cost of excessive paper consumption

An analysis of environmental destruction processes usually leads to the identification of a series of causes, which can be classified as either direct or underlying causes. For example, one of
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Appeal from literature and journalism for socially and environmentally clean paper

“Paper is a wonderful material, which for centuries has served for a fertile exchange of ideas among human beings. For us all who use it as an essential vehicle to
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Short video on the impacts of excessive paper consumption

We have produced a 10 minute video (in English) on the impacts of the paper industry. We hope that the video will be a useful tool for campaigning against excessive
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Paper, paper everywhere…

Paper is a material many people in industrialised countries take entirely for granted. Millions of trees are felled, pulped, made into paper, printed on, then binned without even being read.
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“Shrink”: A new campaign to stop the madness of paper over-consumption

Since the early 1960s, world consumption of paper and paperboard has increased by almost seven times. Every year, each person in the UK gets through an average of more than
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The Confederation of European Paper Industries’ Looking-Glass World

“When I use a word,” said Humpty Dumpty to Alice, “it means just what I choose it to mean – neither more nor less.” Welcome to the Looking-Glass World. Not
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Africa: Food sovereignty threatened by AGRA

The Gates and Rockefeller Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) initiative has landed on Africa announcing that it will help small-scale farmers go commercial. What does this mean?
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India: A Story of Non-Participatory Conservation in the Buxa Tiger Reserve

Buxa was one of those forests which the British foresters boasted of. Originally grassland and Sal forests in stony highlands, the area was irreversibly altered when the colonial foresters moved
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Malaysia: The logging trail leading to tree monocultures in Sarawak

In 1989, WRM and Sahabat Alam Malaysia (Friends of the Earth) produced the publication “The Battle for Sarawak’s Forests”, which documented not only the destruction of forests and forest peoples’
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Peru/Brazil: The right to self-determination of indigenous peoples living in voluntary isolation

In late May, aerial photos taken during a fly-over piloted by the coordinator of the Ethno-Environmental Front of FUNAI (the National Indigenous Foundation of Brazil) confirmed the existence of indigenous
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Chile: The “modern slaves” of the “forestry boom”

The rural-urban migratory process in Chile is the result of internal conflicts in the agrarian structure and, in the case of the VIII Region – the Bio-Bio Region – it
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Indonesia: Killings by Perhutani in East Java teak plantations – a twofold perverted notion of joint forest management

The state-owned company Perhutani boasts of having “one of the highest percentages of forest plantation in the world” (http://perhutaniproducts.com/) with a land area of 2,426,206 Ha in Java and Madura
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Ivory Coast: Tanoé Swamps Forest under destruction by Unilever/Palm-Ci’s oil palm plantations

The Tanoé Swamps Forest, in the department of Adiaké, is the very last remaining forest block in the south-eastern corner of Côte d’Ivoire and extends in an area that has
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Uganda: Thousands of Indigenous People evicted from FSC-certified Mount Elgon National Park

In February 2008, the Uganda Wildlife Authority and the Uganda People’s Defense Forces evicted more than 4,000 people from the Benet and Ndorobo communities living in Mount Elgon National Park
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