A positive reaction from CIFOR
Two weeks ago, the WRM and Oilwatch disseminated an open letter to David Kaimowitz, Director of the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), expressing our concern over a CIFOR research (Read More)
Bulletin Issue 72 – July 2003
OUR VIEWPOINT
LOCAL STRUGGLES AND NEWS
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Chad/Cameroon: Impacts and broken promises of oil-pipeline project
We have already reported extensively the pervasive environmental and social impacts that the Chad-Cameroon oil-pipeline is likely to have (see WRM Bulletins 66, 45, 41, 35, 14 and 2), but (Read More)
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Madagascar: Rio Tinto mining project goes ahead… for the worst
Madagascar is widely recognised as one of the most ecologically rich countries in the world, hosting unique plant and animal species. However, dating from French colonisation, the export-led production pattern (Read More)
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Sao Tome and Principe: Promises and dangers of oil wealth
Sao Tome and Principe is an archipelago covering 1001 km², a tropical paradise located in the oil rich Gulf of Guinea, approximately 300 km from the west coast of Africa. (Read More)
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Senegal: Government limits mining as a means to protecting forests
Senegal has announced it will not grant any new permits for quarrying and mining in the country’s 233 forest conservation areas. The government of Abdoulaye Wade has said it will (Read More)
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Bangladesh: Local people react at possible seismic survey in the Sundarbans
The Bangladeshi organisation BanglaPraxis, together with other local groups, have reacted against a reported move from Shell Bangladesh to conduct an aerial and seismic survey in the Sundarbans mangrove forest (Read More)
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Indonesia: Mounting opposition to mining in protected areas
The “Coalition to oppose mining in Indonesia’s protected areas” has issued a media release to expose how mining activities are encountering strong and mounting opposition at various levels. The Coalition (Read More)
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Laos: French company pulls the plug on Nam Theun 2
Electricité de France has pulled out of the Nam Theun 2 dam project in Laos. EDF announced its departure on 17 July 2003, a day before the consortium developing the (Read More)
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Thailand: Certified firm is in breach of FSC Principles
Two plantations managed by Thailand’s Forest Industry Organisation (FIO) are currently certified as well managed under the Forest Stewardship Council system (see WRM Bulletins 48 and 64). When FSC’s assessor (Read More)
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Honduras: Forest defender murdered in Olancho
Around the year 2002, the forests in the department of Olancho were being devastated by the action of logging companies. Forest destruction was done to feed many saw-mills (both legal (Read More)
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Second Meso-American Forum against Dams
The Second Meso-American Forum against Dams “For the Peoples’ Water and Life” was held from 17 to 20 July in Honduras. One hundred and fifty delegates participated, “concerned over the (Read More)
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Mexico: Women suffer the effects of market opening doubly
Chiapas, in southern Mexico, is home to peasants, mestizos and indigenous Tzontal, Tzontzil, Chole, Zoque and Tojolabal peoples. There, bananas, cacao, sugar cane, and rice are planted. Each family has (Read More)
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Brazil: The Alert Against the Green Desert Network demands a change in the forestry model
One hundred organizations from Espirito Santo, Bahia, Rio de Janeiro and Minas Gerais gathered on 28 and 29 June in Porto Seguro, Bahia, at the Second National Meeting of the (Read More)
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Chile: Forests for people or monoculture plantations for companies
Lying to the population is one of the tools most commonly used by governments and forestry companies all over the world to impose the model of large-scale monoculture tree plantations. (Read More)
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Paraguay: Uncontacted Indians in danger
The last uncontacted Indians south of the Amazon basin are being squeezed from all sides. With their last refuge being gradually overrun, they have nowhere left to hide. But if (Read More)
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Venezuela: Tourism development causes serious impacts on mangroves
Over the past 15 years, the Colina municipal authorities backing tourism development have granted lands bordering the De la Vela Mangrove. The consequent building of housing and shops has implied (Read More)
THE CARBON SHOP FILES
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Aotearoa/New Zealand: Spraying chemicals on people to protect tree monocrops
Two tiny moths are at the centre of a social and environmental confrontation in New Zealand. In West Auckland, people and the environment are being subjected to aerial spraying with (Read More)
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Asian Development Bank joins World Bank in promoting industrial scale carbon sinks projects in the South
It sometimes takes many little pieces to recognize the full picture. In the case of the continued debate about the benefits or otherwise of carbon sinks projects linked to the (Read More)
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Plantar: The saga continues
What’s wrong with a company pursuing a green seal for ‘sustainable forest management’ and a climate-friendly credit for planting trees that help soak up carbon from the atmosphere? Potentially a (Read More)