FSC Plantations Review under way
The Forest Stewardship Council’s Plantations Review is finally under way. The 12 member committee elected to implement the first part of this process (the “policy phase”) held its first meeting (Read More)
Bulletin Issue 92 – March 2005
OUR VIEWPOINT
LOCAL STRUGGLES AND NEWS
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Africa: Oilwatch network strengthened in Lagos
Oil is a big problem at the global level, where its use is resulting in climate change through the accumulation of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. At the same time (Read More)
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Burundi : Forest conservation against the people
With an area of 27,834 sq km, landlocked Burundi is a battleground between the Rwandan army and militia from the Congo, and is plagued by a protracted civil war, which (Read More)
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Nigeria : “We thought it was oil but it was blood” (N.Bassey)
Nigeria holds the largest mangrove forest area in Africa, most of which is found in the Niger Delta, where 11,700 square kilometers of swamp forests host several unique plant and (Read More)
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South Africa: Civil society networking to channel environmental concerns and actions
A meeting of the Mpumalanga Civil Society was held on 5 March, 2005, in a barn at Tim Brewer’s trout farm, Katrinasrus , near Machadodorp . This somewhat out-of-the-way venue (Read More)
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Bangladesh: The Mro resist eviction from eco-park
The Mro (also Mru) are one of the indigenous peoples inhabiting since long Chittagong Hills. They are totally dependent on the forest, where they not only hunt but also engage (Read More)
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Laos : Nam Theun 2, the World Bank and corruption
On 31 March 2005, the World Bank’s Board of Directors will decide whether to support a series of loans and guarantees for the Nam Theun 2 hydropower dam in Laos. (Read More)
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Malaysia : Fake logging certification on Penan lands
On 18 October 2004, Samling Plywood, the Malaysian timber corporation, was granted a Certificate for Forest Management under the Malaysian Timber Certification Council (MTCC) for the alleged sustainable logging of (Read More)
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Legal and illegal logging in Vietnam
Illegal logging is rampant in Vietnam. Vietnamese newspapers frequently report on new logging scandals. A few examples from last year illustrate the point. In January, the People’s Army Newspaper ran (Read More)
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Argentina : The destruction of the Misiones forest amounts to the genocide of the Mbya Guarani
In the Province of Misiones, located in the northeast of Argentina, the authorities of the ancient Mbya Guarani people (see WRM Bulletin Nº 87), who inhabit what is today the (Read More)
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Brazil : World Bank loan to Aracruz is in breach of Bank forest policy
The world’s largest producer of bleached eucalyptus pulp has plans to become even bigger. Last year, Aracruz Cellulose produced 2.5 million tons of pulp. The company is looking at five (Read More)
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Paraguay : Deforestation Zero Law in the Eastern Region
On 13 December 2004, the Paraguayan Congress adopted Law No. 2524 “Prohibiting, in the Eastern Region, Activities Transforming and Converting Surfaces with Forest Cover.” This law was subsequently known as (Read More)
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Peru : Community resistance forces Yanacocha Mining Company to retreat
In Peru, the Departments where mining prevails show the highest levels of poverty in the country. Such is the case of Cajamarca, the location of the Yanacocha Mining Company -with (Read More)
THE CARBON SHOP FILES
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V&M do Brazil’s carbon plantations proposal backfires
For the second time, the Clean Development Mechanism’s (CDM) Executive Board has rejected the reasons of Vallourec & Mannesmann do Brasil for requesting carbon credit money for industrial tree plantations. (Read More)
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BioCarbon Fund = data_fiddling_Inc.jail.com?
In early March 2005, the first carbon sinks project promoted by the World Bank’s BioCarbonFund entered the first stage of registering as a CDM project under the Kyoto Protocol. Around (Read More)