After IFF: deeds, not words!
During the last meeting of the Intergovernmental Forum on Forests (IFF), NGOs and IPOs made a statement expressing their disappointment and frustration regarding the lack of implementation of measures agreed (Read More)
Bulletin Issue 30 – January 2000
OURVIEWPOINT
LOCAL STRUGGLES AND NEWS
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Liberia: the silent destruction of the forests
Seldom are there news arriving from Liberia. This country, located in the West African region, with shores on the Atlantic Ocean and bounded in the West by Sierra Leone, Guinea (Read More)
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Malawi: forests, health and life
To the reductionist viewpoint of Western silviculture, forests are mainly -if not exclusively- a source of roundwood for industrial purposes. Nevertheless, forests are not only the home for thousands of (Read More)
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South Africa: just poetry and emotion?
The expansion of the tree plantation model in South Africa has given place to a heated debate. Philip Owen, from SAWAC (South African Water Crisis), as well as several other (Read More)
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Tanzania: local people benefit from forest products
Corruption and incapacity among forestry officials, as well as the activity of illegal loggers, timber product dealers and sawmillers are responsible for the disappearance and degradation of Tanzania’s forests (see (Read More)
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Cambodian forests menaced by logging concessions
Uncontrolled logging threatens the future of Cambodian forests. A review of logging concessions in Cambodia was initiated last year, with the aim of identifying those concessions which should be terminated (Read More)
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India: an outdated approach to national parks and people
The preservationist approach to forest protection, which considers people as a threat to nature, ignores the human and territorial rights of rural communities and indigenous peoples living in the forests, (Read More)
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Indonesia: deforestation and forest degradation in Borneo’s forests
Borneo, one of the biggest islands of the Malaysian archipelago in South East Asia, is under the sovereignty of three states: Malaysia, Indonesia and Brunei. Originally this big island was (Read More)
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Malaysia: why the Selangor Dam?
The Selangor dam project is being strongly resisted by local communities, indigenous peoples and environmental NGOs, since it means the destruction of 600 hectares of rainforest, the eviction of the (Read More)
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Thailand: Boycott the bulldozer movie!
Democracy and environmental groups in Thailand and beyond are shocked and outraged at the way Twentieth Century Fox used the force of power and big money to produce the movie (Read More)
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Honduras: fruitful efforts
The following letter from Jorge Varela of the Committee for the Defence and Development of Flora and Fauna of the Fonseca Gulf (CODEFFAGOLF) was published in Late Friday News nr. (Read More)
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Nicaragua: will Smartwood certify depredatory logging company?
In February 1998, representatives of indigenous communities -Sumus and Miskitos- local and regional authorities, environmental NGOs, and community and religious leaders joined in Rosita, a village on the Atlantic coast (Read More)
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Argentina: storing German carbon in forests?
The issue of the environmental services that Southern countries can provide to Northern countries to mitigate the effects of global climate change is controversial. On the one hand there is (Read More)
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Brazil: the struggle of the Pataxó-Hã-Hã-Hãe
The indigenous people Pataxó-Hã-Hã-Hãe are claiming their territorial rights on an area of 53,000 hectares in the Southern Region of the State of Bahia, which contain remnants of the once (Read More)
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Brazil: joint government agency-Greenpeace action in the Amazon
The accelerated loss of the Amazon rainforest is perhaps the most notorious case of environmental destruction at a global level. It is not “humanity” as an abstract entity the one (Read More)
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Action for the U’wa people in Colombia
During the long conflict that has involved the U’wa indigenous people -with the support of national and international NGOs and social organizations- and Occidental Petroleum (Oxy), there have been constant (Read More)
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Colombia: “the life and dignity of the Embera people won’t be flooded”
The Urra hydroelectric dam megaproject in Colombia is causing negative impacts on the Embera Katio indigenous people, ancestral dwellers of the affected area. With the support of Colombian and international (Read More)
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Support requested to forest indigenous peoples in Peru
The Mashco Piro, Yora, Amahuaca, and Yaminahua indigenous peoples in the amazonic Alta Piedras region of Madre de Dios in Peru, are being threatened by pending forest concessions. These peoples (Read More)
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Good news from New Zealand/Aotearoa
Environmental NGOs are celebrating the success of the newly elected New Zealand government in forcing the State owned logging company, Timberlands, to withdraw its plans to log extensive areas of (Read More)
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Papua New Guinea: moratorium on new logging announced
The Papua New Guinea (PNG) Prime Minister Mekere Morauta has announced the intention of the new government to impose a moratorium on new logging, and to review existing logging concessions, (Read More)
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WorldWatch Institute’s new publication on the paper industry
The increasing demand of paper and paperboard, especially in Northern countries, is one of the direct causes of deforestation and, at the same time, of the expansion of pulpwood plantations (Read More)
PLANTATIONS CAMPAIGN
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Dutch carbon sink plantations: adding to the problem
The social and environmental impacts of tree monocultures in the Andean Páramos of Ecuador in a project carried out by the Dutch consortium FACE are analyzed in a thesis work (Read More)
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WRM briefing on carbon sink plantations
The WRM has just published a new Plantations Campaign briefing titled “The carbon shop: planting new problems” by Larry Lohmann. This is the third briefing in our series in relation (Read More)
GENERAL
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“Undermining the forests”: new publication on Canadian mining industry
“Undermining the forests. The need to control transnational mining companies: a Canadian case study” by Forest Peoples Programme, Philippine Indigenous Peoples Links and the World Rainforest Movement, published in January (Read More)