2008

• 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

• 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/

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