2012

• Industrial monoculture tree plantations in South Africa: The culture of traditional healers versus the culture of consumption

2011

• South Africa: The killing of Baboon in FSC-certified timber plantations

2010

• Research shows conclusive results on the impacts of tree plantations on water
• The plunder of Africa continues
• Africa: The World Cup and reality
• Thirsty alien trees in a water scarce country
• Threatened grasslands

2009

• New video online on timber plantations in Southern Africa

2008

• Tree plantations ravaged by fire turned a lurking tragedy into a sad reality
• A visit to Komatiland Forests industrial tree monocultures

2007

• The illusion of storing carbon in tree plantations goes up in smoke
• Working conditions and the contract labour system in timber plantations
• Commercial timber plantations as “take it or leave it” development option for rural areas

2006

• First Steps of the Southern African Plantation Action Network (SAPAN)
• Differentiated impacts of tree plantations on women
• Research views FSC certified tree plantations as a legacy of apartheid
• Impacts of tree plantations on birds
• The FSC Plantations Policy Working Group’s field trip in South Africa
• A South African view of the FSC seal on industrial tree plantations

2005

• Plantations - Green gold or green deserts?
• Sappi Saiccor to expand its polluting pulp mill?
• Following a road of impoverishment with monoculture tree plantations
• Women forestry workers under outsourcing schemes
• South Africa: Timber plantations and the Graskop community
• Civil society networking to channel environmental concerns and actions

2004

• FSC Certification of Industrial Timber Plantations
• Pulping people and places

2003

• Timberrr.! As the plantations go on growing, more South Africans are crying out a warning
• Renewed call for a moratorium on timber plantations
• Sustainability, Protected Areas, and Development
• Global Gluttony: Mines feeding on forests in South Africa
• Timber industry and not medicinal plant gatherers behind forest loss
• Tree plantations render corporation profits but fire, damages and death for the people

2002

• What is the Future of FSC Certification in South Africa?
• Nearing one million hectares of FSC certified plantations
• FAO Forest Definition a Threat to Biodiversity
• Tree plantations' impacts on bird populations

2001

• Where impact of plantations on water is accepted as fact
• The sad figures of employment generated by plantation companies
• Quo vadis FSC?
• The alien tree species threat to grassland biodiversity

2000

• Grassland ecosystem destruction by tree plantations
• Symposium on industrial tree plantations
• Just poetry and emotion?

1999

• What are the true costs of woodlots?
• The Big Lie
• Industrial timber plantations - asset and liability
• Resistance to tree monocultures in grasslands
• "How green are my plantations?"
• Privatizing plantations in South Africa
• "Around me, despite good rains, countless fountains are drying up"
• Exotic tree plantations are green wastelands

1998

• The ways of the powerful pulp industry
• Good news from South Africa

1997

• "Social benefits" of industrial tree plantations
• More pulp industry development
• Malaysians in South Africa, South Africans in Brazil

OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION

• Plantation Trees and Water Use
  This documentary is a GeaSphere / EcoDoc Africa collaboration. Plantations use significant amounts of water and South Africa is an arid country. In this documentary Arthur Chapman from One World Sustainable Investments (previously CSIR) takes us on a tour and shares with us the background of seventy years of hydrological research in the Jonkershoek Valley and how the paired catchment experiments work, and how much water trees really use. The intention of the documentary is educational, and to be used as a platform for further discussions.
  

• "Pulping the future" - Monoculture timber plantations have taking over the escarpment regions in South Africa, where grasslands are rapidly disappearing. Produced by Philip Owen from Geasphere and filmed by Deidre May, various environmental activists contest the timber plantation model due to the adverse impacts on the water supply, biodiversity of plant and animal life and livelihoods of rural people. Alternative land use models are also discussed.

• Geasphere Videos on line

• Earth Matters - A video about plantations in South Africa

• Illegal Timber Plantations. A Growing Problem in South Africa. A video by TimberWatch Coalition.

• Memoria de una gira de campo. Evaluación de la certificación FSC a plantaciones en KwaZuluNatal - Sudáfrica (only in Spanish)
  Grupo de Trabajo en la Revisión de las Políticas de Certificación a Grandes Plantaciones
  FSC - 3-4 de Abril, 2006. Por Javier Baltodano

• Did the FSC Plantations Policy Working Group get it right? By Wally Menne, Timberwatch Coalition. Report of the FSC Plantations Policy Working Group’s field trip in South Africa.

• What role for forestry in reducing poverty in South Africa? Case studies of contractors in the forestry sector - May 2004 Jeanette Clarke and Moenieba Isaacs.

• Important Differences between Timber Plantations and Forests
  (With reference to South Africa) by Wally Menne

• Fake Forests, Extractive Industries and Elusive Aids Medicines
  ZNet Commentary - March 01, 2004
  By Patrick Bond

• GLOBAL GLUTTONY. Mines feeding on forests in South Africa
  by Wally Menne

• Industrial tree plantations: a growing problem
  Ricardo Carrere

LINKS

Ecopeace
http://www.ecopeace.org.za

EMG
http://home.global.co.za/~emg

GeaSphere
http://www.geasphere.co.za/indexa.htm

South African National NGO's Coalition
www.sangoco.org.za

South African Freeze Alliance against Genetic Engineering
http://www.safeage.org

SAWAC - Southern African Water Crisis 
http://www.sawac.co.za/  

Timberwatch
http://www.timberwatch.org.za/

Wildlife Society 
www.wildlifesociety.org.za