• WRM BRIEFING

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Tree plantations in the Mekong region
By World Rainforest Movement., December 2008

ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN THE WRM BULLETIN

2009

• Hydropower on the Mekong: Where dams may block the future of millions
• Burma: The looming social and environmental disaster of the Tasang dam
• Chinese company Sun Paper plans eucalyptus monocultures
• Mekong Citizens to Hand 15,000 Signature “Save the Mekong” Petition to Thai PM
• Eucalyptus plantations - from Finland with conflict
• Facing two evils -deforestation and monoculture tree plantations
• Save the Mekong, a coalition to keep the river alive

2008

• Special bulletin - December 2008: Tree Plantations in the Mekong Region
• Dams on the Mekong mainstream would destroy fisheries for millions
• Beijing: The carbon-cheating Games français português

2007

• Laos: Norwegian and Chinese “aid” helps dam the Xeset Riverb

2006

• The usual quiz about eucalyptus plantations and water

2005

• APP’s illegal logging in China
• Mozambique: Forestry in Zambezia province, Chinese takeaway!

2004

• Genetically modified madness
• Ramsar Mangroves lost to Shrimp Farming
• Burma: China Continues Devouring Neighbour’s Forests
• Restructuring the paper sector to suit a globalised industry
• Burma: Forests for Export to China

2003

• Following the trite pattern of monoculture tree plantations

2002

• Suriname: Chinese Logging Companies and Tribal Rights

2001

• Strangling the life-source of millions: China dams the Mekong
• Exporting deforestation and promoting tree monocultures

2000

• UPM-Kymmene and APRIL: The Chinese-Indonesian connection
• From afforestation to povery alleviation and natural forest management

1999

• Japanese foresters invade China
• Chinese paper industry in Myanmar

1998

• APRIL and UPM-Kymmene move into China

OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION

• Mekong Citizens to Hand 15,000 Signature “Save the Mekong” Petition to Thai PM - Press Release - June 2009

• GE Trees in China - by Cheng Wenjing, Third World Network , September 2008
  presented at the International Biosafety Forum-Workshop 3, organized by Nanjing Institute of Environmental Science, GTZ/BMZ, Central University for Nationality College of Life and Environmental Science and TWN, Beijing, September 25-26, 2008

• Statement Of Unity - Mekong Regional Conference on Tree Plantations - Cambodia, November 21 - 22, 2006

• China’s Mangrove Forests of the Leizhou Peninsula
  by Alfredo Quarto - Mangrove Action Project - February 2003

LINKS

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