The WRM Bulletin’s Fifth Anniversary
With this issue the WRM bulletin will be five years old and we want to congratulate you and ourselves on this occasion. This double congratulation is not a mere formalism. (Read More)
Bulletin Issue 60 – July 2002
OUR VIEWPOINT
LOCAL STRUGGLES AND NEWS
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Côte d’Ivoire: The sacred forest, a community protected area
The village of Zaïpobly is located in Southeast Côte d’Ivoire, in the western outskirts of Taï National Park. This park covers an area of 454,000 hectares and is the largest (Read More)
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Gambia: A case of community forest management
Gambia used to be covered by very dense forests. However, the country has undergone a severe deforestation and degradation process. In 1981, about 430,000 hectares were classified as forests –45% (Read More)
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Ghana: Ancient tradition in community forest management
A country with an annual deforestation rate of 1,71%, which in 17 years (1955-1972) lost one third of its forests and further 5,6 million hectares from 1977 to 1997, Ghana (Read More)
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Zambia: Deforestation, timber industry and free trade
The major environmental problem reportedly faced by Zambia is deforestation. A case study carried out by the European Forest Institute in 2000 gives figures: the annual rate of deforestation ranges (Read More)
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Indonesia: The alternative approach of community forest management
The NGO Down to Earth has recently concluded a special report titled “Forests, people and rights”, which provides very detailed analytical information on the forest situation in Indonesia. The following (Read More)
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Thailand: The racism behind the modern conservation paradigm
The upland forests of north Thailand have become an arena for intensely contested perspectives on forest protection as state forestry officials and some nature conservation groups attempt, in the name (Read More)
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Vietnam: Swedish involvement in dam that will hit Cambodians
Built at a cost of $1 billion on the Se San River in Vietnam, the Yali Falls dam has caused devastating impacts on downstream communities in Cambodia (see WRM Bulletin (Read More)
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Costa Rica: Japanese dollars to promote monoculture tree plantations
The new President of Costa Rica, Abel Pacheco would seem to have good intentions regarding the environment, but at the same time, shows some gaps in knowledge of the native (Read More)
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USA: Losing forests to pine plantations
The United States is also affected by the predatory scheme that is elsewhere replacing forests by monoculture tree plantations. In the state of Tennessee, the sorrow is also felt by (Read More)
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Argentina: Genetic engineering causes deforestation
Genetic engineering is the state of the art output of the Green Revolution. It has deepened a pattern where monoculture, land concentration, and dependence –on the technology, on the seed– (Read More)
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Brazil: While the people are roused to indignation, Aracruz celebrates
It is amazing the way in which Aracruz Celulose S.A. is facing the situation in which it is placed, affected by the numerous negative impacts arising from its activities in (Read More)
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Chile: Resistance against a highway that will destroy forests and peoples
Hidden in the midst of remote mountains on the South Pacific coast of Chile, is the last remnant of intact coastal forest, one of the most diverse ecosystems of Latin (Read More)
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Paraguay: Civil society in defence of the Concepcion forests
Paraguay covers an area of 406,752 km2 . The Paraguay river divides the country into two well differentiated bio-regions: the Eastern region and the Western region or Chaco. Both regions (Read More)
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Australia: Tree plantations grabbing thriving forests
Today I went for a walk in the Tarkine. I was fortunate to sit under a wedge tailed eagle as it circled around me. Its nest must have been nearby (Read More)
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Papua New Guinea: The logging industry’s empty promises of job generation
There should be more literature on the broken promises of the logging industry. When those companies arrive in a country, they try to entice the local people with arguments like (Read More)
THE CARBON SHOP FILES
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The value of the Plantar Project’s sequestration credits should be zero
A Brazilian industrial plantation project hoping to get a subsidy from the UN for sucking up carbon from the atmosphere has failed to make its case, according to the project’s (Read More)