Oil palm and rubber plantations in Western and Central Africa: An Overview
By World Rainforest Movement., December 2008

2009

• Uganda: Carbon sink plantation - where trees are more important than people
• New video online on timber plantations in Southern Africa

2006

• First Steps of the Southern African Plantation Action Network (SAPAN)
• Central African forestry administrations: are they at the service of the peoples involved?

2005

• Privatisation or piratisation of our forests?

2004

• World Bank supports Canadian mining plunder

2002

• Conservation should be with the people
  Improving forest management through joint management with communities
  Joint and Community-Based Forest Management in the Uluguru Mountains
  Community-based forest management as a way forward for conservation
  Traditional knowledge in forest restoration
• Biodiversity loss linked to IMF-promoted commercial agriculture and mining

2001

• The death of the Rufiji Delta Prawn Project
• Human rights, social justice and conservation

2000

• Impasse on commercial shrimp farming at Rufiji Delta mangroves
  Gold mining adds new problems to lake Victoria
  Another case of Norwegian CO2lonialism
• Local people benefit from forest products

1999

• Afforestation, reforestation and the real causes of forest destruction
  Where illegal logging is almost legal
• Preservation results in human rights abuses

1998

• Mangroves menaced by aquaculture project

OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION

• CDM carbon sink tree plantations in Africa: A case study in Tanzania - By Blessing Karumbidza and Wally Menne - The Timberwatch Coalition

• Oil palm in Tanzania - WRM draft article in progress, comments are welcomed! - August 2010

• Agrofuels in Africa. The impacts on Land, Food and Forests - African Biodiversity Network. July 2007

• Biofuels, land access and rural livelihoods in Tanzania - By Emmanuel Sulle and Fred Nelson, IIED, 2009

• Potential Impacts of Tree Plantation Projects under the CDM- An African Case Study - By Blessing Karumbidza and Wally Menne, 2009

• “Carbon Upsets”, Norwegian “Carbon Plantations” in Tanzania - by Jorn Stave, NorWatch, July 2000

• Articles & Papers on the Uluguru Mountains - published by African Conservation

LINKS

East African Wild Life Society
http://www.eawildlife.org/

LAWYERS' ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION TEAM
Friends of the Earth Tanzania
http://www.leat.or.tz