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Contents
Introduction: the role of civil society
in forest biodiversity conservation
by Ricardo Carrere, World Rainforest Movement
Resisting poverty, biodiversity loss
& other impacts of neo-liberalism in Costa Rica
by Javier Baltodano, Coecoceiba/Friends of the Earth Costa
Rica
Argentina: Communities resist oil &
logging transnational corporations
by Roque Pedace, Friends of the Earth Argentina
The Putumayo Indigenous Peoples seek
to recover the sustainability of their culture
by Javier Marin Rodriguez & Alejandro Pulido Chaparro, Censat
Agua Viva/Friends of the Earth Colombia
Indigenous Peoples resisting large-scale
tree plantations: the Manismata dispute
by Farah Sofa, Walhi/Friends of the Earth Indonesia
Traditional knowledge versus agro-industrial
deforestation. The case of cordillera de Yvytyrusu, Paraguay
by Sobrevivencia/Friends of the Earth Paraguay
Resisting French companies’ illegal
practices in the Cameroonian forests
by Frédéric Castell, Friends of the Earth France
South Africa: Alien plantation trees
& forest definitions a threat to biodiversity
by Wally Menne, member of the Timberwatch Coalition, South
Africa
Eucalyptus plantations as carbon sinks
in Ecuador. The business of four transnational companies
by Ivonne Ramos, Acción Ecológica/Friends of
the Earth Ecuador
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