2012

• Serious impacts of FSC certified tree plantation company
• Campaign against tree monoculture expansion
• Forest fires and repression, the legacy of the industrial tree plantation model

2011

• A disastrous forestry model with new “branches” in Latin America
• Monoculture tree plantations on Mapuche territory, certified by the FSC?

2010

• Professional foresters denounce violations by company certified by CERTFOR and FSC
• Research provides data on the role of native forests in the production of water

2009

• Uruguay: The Ence, Arauco and Stora Enso’s eucalyptus and pulp fairytales
• Opposition to government subsidies for the expansion of monoculture tree plantations

2008

• A forestry model generating poverty and extreme poverty
• Documentary-maker jailed for filming a documentary on the Mapuche struggle against forestry companies français português
• The “modern slaves” of the “forestry boom”
• Patricia Troncoso, a symbol of the Mapuche struggle against a Government at the service of forestry companies
• Brazil and Chile: Concern over research on transgenic trees

2007

• What is not said about work in tree plantations

• The worthless CERTFOR tree plantation certification label

• The short-lived lies of a “successful” forestry model
• The Swedish pulp and plantation industry’s plan for moving South

2006

• Has the CERTFOR label any value?
• The people of Mehuin again oppose the Celco pulp company

• The Ñielol forest – witness to lies on forests and plantations

• The Mapuche peoples' resistance to the plantation invasion
• Pulp mill destroy biodiversity and people’s livelihoods
• Young Mapuche opposed to the advance of plantation companies seeks political asylum

2005

• The infinite thirst of forestry companies
• Pulp mill takes death to the sea
• The impacts of monoculture tree plantations on Mapuche medicine
• Another Mapuche martyr dies as victim of an attack by a forestry company

2004

• There’s something stinking in southern Chile
• Private conservation and communities

2003

• Mapuche question agreement between forestry companies and environmental NGOs
• Forests for people or monoculture plantations for companies
• Campaign against a Canadian project for the production of aluminium
• Urgent need to reorient forestry policy from monoculture to forests
• Mapuche defend their land from forestry companies
• Environmental organisation questions FSC standards for plantations

2002

• Police at the service of a forestry company murder a young Mapuche
• Is Community-Based Forest Management Possible in the Context of a Neoliberal Economy?
• Resistance against a highway that will destroy forests and peoples
• Invasion of Mapuche territory by tree plantation companies
• Forests burnt to substitute them by monoculture tree plantations
• Poverty and wealth generated by plantation forestry companies

2001

• Tree plantations and pulp production generate poverty and destitution
• Community forestry as an alternative model
• Repression or solution to the Mapuche-forestry company confrontation?
• Tree monocultures threaten unique forest type
• The struggle of the Pehuenche against the Ralco Dam

2000

• International Prize awarded to two Mapuche women
• The debate about tree plantations heats up
• Wine production threatened by pulp mill project
• True forests for Chile
• The exploitation of forestry workers
• Easter Island: A mirror of humanity's future?
• Will democracy prove to be different from dictatorship?
• Forest management by indigenous communities
• Forestry companies and security firms accused of terrorism

1999

• Under the shadow of Pinochet
• The Mapuche conflict persists
• "Marichi weu" (We will win ten times)
• A severely questioned model
• The Treng Treng Mapuche and their struggle for land
• Mapuche indigenous peoples' march to the capital city
• Chicago school children frighten Boise Cascade
• Establishment experts and reality
• More than scientific evidence on plantations' impacts
• The forestry model in big trouble
• Gondwana Forests Sanctuary Campaign launched in Chile

1998

• An unsustainable forestry model
• World Bank acknowledges mistake and impacts in the Bio Bio Pangue dam
• Native forests cleared for plantations
• Community opposes pulp mill project

1997

• Activists against mining in Ecuador arrested
• Indigenous protest in Santiago, Chile

OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION

The Economic and Social Context of Monoculture Tree Plantations in Chile: the Case of the Commune of Lumaco, Araucania region The present report sets out the problems faced by that commune of 11,405 inhabitants, where monoculture tree plantations have expanded violently.. August 2005 - Also available in Spanish

• Memorias del Foro de los Pueblos Originarios y Organizaciones Sociales - ¡NO AL COMERCIO CONTRA LOS PUEBLOS!
  (Por la libre determinación: Contra APEC)
  4 y 5 de Junio 2004 - Villarrica / Pucón, territorio Mapuche - only in Spanish

  La invasión de las plantaciones forestales en Chile. Efectos de la actividad forestal en la población indígena mapuche - por José Araya Cornejo - Observatorio Latinoamericano de Conflictos Ambientales - Abril de 2003 - only in Spanish

  Invasión Forestal - Khla Nagnegei Taíñ weichangepan
  Comunidades Mapuches de Lumako - - only in Spanish

• Mapuche Statement criticizing environmentalists for negotiating with the companies responsible for their repression (Arauco and CMPC/Mininco)
  by the Coordinacion of Organizations and Territorial Identities Mapuche
  December 2003
• Memorandum of understanding
  signed-on by Arauco and CMPC/Mininco companies and some non-governmental organizations

• Bosques nativos para la gente. Declaración pública. (only in Spanish)
  Pequeños propietarios de bosques de Chile demandan y proponen respeto a la conservación, manejo y recuperación de los bosques en Chile. Junio 2003.

  Final Report of the IFHR Mission on Mapuche's Human Rights situation March 19 2003.

  US-Chile Free Trade Agreement. Secret trade deal threatens ancient temperate rainforests
  Jason Tockman - Randi Spivak - American Lands ALLIANCE

  Plantaciones Forestales en Chile: un modelo que se aleja de los compromisos internacionales con el medio ambiente (only in Spanish)
  por Rodrigo Catalán - presentado en el Seminario Internacional sobre el eucalipto y sus impactos, Vitória - ES - Brasil, agosto 2001.

  A plantation is not a forest! Video clip [2.2Mb]
  Native Forest Network - Defensores del Bosque Chileno

• Empresas Forestales: La Invasión del Territorio Mapuche (only in Spanish)
  by Natalia González Olmedo

  Invasión Forestal y Etnocidio Mapuche
  por Alfredo Seguel (agrupación de jóvenes técnicos y profesionales Konapewman)

  Evaluación de los impactos de la producción de celulosa (only in Spanish)
  by Consuelo Espinosa - Publicaciones Terram

  ¡Pobre bosque nativo! (only in Spanish)
  Defensores del Bosque Chileno

  Los bosques nativos del sur de Chile y el pueblo mapuche (only in Spanish) by Rodrigo Catalán Labarías - Ruperto Ramos Antiqueo

• Chile, País Forestal de Verdad (only in Spanish)

• 2003
  - Brutal oppression and torture of indigenous leaders and activists

  2001
  - Mapuche leaders detained
  - Temperate Rainforests in Chile Threatened by Coastal Highway

• 1999
  - Mapuche indigenous peoples' march to the capital city

LINKS

Informativo Mapuche desde territorio mapuche
http://www.mapuexpress.net/ Renace - Red Nacional de Acción Ecológica
 http://www.renace.cl/  Bosque mucho mas que madera
http://bosquemuchomasquemadera.blogspot.com/ Defensores del Bosque Chileno
http://www.elbosquechileno.cl/ Observatorio Latinoamericano de Conflictos Ambientales
http://www.olca.cl/oca/ País Mapuche
http://www.azkintuwe.org/ NO al proyecto Alumysa
http://www.noalumysa.cl/

Ukhamawa: Red de Noticias Indigenas
http://espanol.groups.yahoo.com/group/ukhamawa