A process under the name of “National Dialogue on Forestry Control” is presently taking place in Ecuador. This process is considered to be illegitimate as it has not involved the main actors directly affected by the destruction of their forests. In fact, what is being sought, as in so many other countries, is to change the existing forestry policy to favour the timber industry.

- Urgent support to the people of Ecuador!!

- Letter sent to the Ministry of Environment from the Ecuadorians social and indigenous organizations in which they claim among other things, the immediate suspension of this non-participative “dialogue.” The full letter in Spanish is available here June 9, 2006.

- ·WRM letter to the Ministry of Ecuador. Only in Spanish - June 2006.

- Letter from the Latin American Network against Monoculture Tree Plantations - RECOMA - Only in Spanish June 2006.

REPORTS

- Ecuador: A strange “dialogue” for the promotion of tree monocultures Article published in the WRM bulletin · 107, June 2006.

Available only in Spanish

- · New Forestry law for Sustainable Forest Development in Ecuador. By Acción Ecológica / In defense of the forests campaign

- The timber industry has found two ways of increasing their profits: the new forestry law and the Clean Development Mechanism. By Acción Ecológica / In defense of the forests campaign

- Our proposal on monoculture tree plantations. By Acción Ecológica, May, 2006.

PUBLICATIONS

- Monocultivos de árboles en Ecuador (only in Spanish) Por Patricia Granda, Acción Ecológia. A través de tres estudios de caso y de la revisión de la historia de la forestación en el país, el presente documento pretende lograr una visión actualizada y completa sobre la seria amenaza que representan las plantaciones forestales en el Ecuador, hasta ahora ignorada por la mayor parte de la población. Mayo de 2006.

- Carbon Sink Plantations in the Ecuadorian Andes Impacts of the Dutch FACE-PROFAFOR monoculture tree plantations' project on indigenous and peasant communities - Joint research of Acción Ecológica Ecuador and WRM - May 2005

LINKS

- Acción Ecológica - http://www.accionecologica.org

- World Rainforest Movement - http://www.wrm.org.uy/Countries/Ecuador.html

- Fundación de Defensa Ecológica Ecuador - http://www.fundecol.org/

- Confederación de Nacionalidades Indígenas del Ecuador - http://www.conaie.org/

- Ley Forestal y de Conservación de Areas Naturales y Vida Silvestre. Ley No. 74. RO/ 64 de 24 de Agosto de 1981 -http://www.mineriaecuador.com/leyes/Lforestal.htm