• WRM BOOK

• ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN THE WRM BULLETIN

• OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION

• LINKS

WRM BOOK

2009

• New video online on timber plantations in Southern Africa

2007

• Woodmark and SAPPI ignore the lessons from a neighbouring farmer
• The illusion of storing carbon in tree plantations goes up in smoke
• Large-scale tree plantations which are no exception to the rule
• FSC credibility hits all time low with certification of Sappi

2006

• Impacts of Mondi Peak plantations certified by FSC

2005

• The impact of 50 years of industrial forestry

2004

• Timber Plantations Impacting on People and Nature
• Timber plantations at the expense of Swazi people

2003

• Paper mill pollutes river and people

OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION

• Enviornmental education and awareness raising tour in Swaziland
  In the end of May 2011 the two GeaSphere activists Isabel and Tim undertook an environmental awareness raising project in Swaziland. The volunteers gave presentations about environmental issues at several schools and interviewed people in communities that are close to industrial timber plantations. The video gives a colorful impression about the visits at the schools and provides several interviews with people that are affected negatively by monoculture tree plantations.

• Timber Plantations in Swaziland: An investigation into the environmental and social impacts of large -scale timber plantation in Swaziland
  by Wally Menne Timberwatch - South Africa
  December 2004

LINKS

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

Yonge Nawe - Environmental Action Group
http://www.yongenawe.com