2008

• Diversity and community forest use versus monocultures and parks
• Rubber plantations against forests, people and health

2007

• Thailand’s Community Forest Bill: Who does the military government think it’s good for?
• Mekong: MRC doing the wrong checking
• Advance Agro's greenwash
• The looming catastrophe of oil palm plantations for biodiesel

2006

• People, not state, protect forests
• Long March for Community Forestry
• Big conservationism at odds with indigenous peoples’ lives

2005

• “Community forest bill” poses relocation threat for rural communities in conservation forest areas

2004

• Thai government targets eviction of Pang Daeng ethnic communities for tourism and tree plantations
• A pulp mill with a long history

2003

• SmartWood suspends FSC certification of two plantations
• Assassinated Village Conservationist
• Certified firm is in breach of FSC Principles
• Deadly lead mines poisoning ethnic communities
• Eucalyptus, encroachment, deforestation and pollution linked to pulp and paper company
• Burma/Thailand/Laos: Colonial forestry - then and now
• Revival of the Weigyi dam

2002

• FSC should revoke Forest Industry Organisation certificate
• Forests Communities to Renew Struggle for Rights
• The racism behind the modern conservation paradigm
• Senate blocks draft community forest bill
• United States' carbon sink plantation proposal rejected
• Displaced peoples wrongly blamed for forest destruction

2001

• Uncertain future for the world Nº 1 exporter?
• Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certifies Thailand’s chief logging agency
• A step forward in the resolution of a conflict

2000

• State-owned forestry industry fuels controversy with forestry certification
• A diversity-based community forest management system
• Massive eucalyptus plantations planned
• For the authorities, reality at the Pak Mun dam does not exist
• Sino-Thai eucalyptus project facing opposition
• Free the Moon River!
• Boycott the bulldozer movie!

1999

• Eucalyptus and Jiang Zemin's coming lesson
• Letter to the Prime Minister on Rasi Salai dam
• Local people's resistance to dams
• Authorities play "Ethnic" and "Nationalist" cards
• Peoples' demonstrations in Thailand
• Support requested for peoples' rally
• Two approaches to forest conservation
• Local people resist dams
• One year of struggle against Yadana gas pipeline

1998

• The pulp industry tries to strike back
• Northern Thailand: a bridging meeting in London
• The strong muscle of the pulp industry
• Villagers arbitrarily arrested in Thailand
• The struggle of forest peoples to remain in the forest
• Forest defenders arrested
• Two opposite approaches to forest conservation

OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION

• Rights of rubber farmers in Thailand under free trade - By Ms Sayamol Kaiyoorawong and Ms Bandita Yangdee - Project for Ecological Awareness Building - February 2008

• Ten Million Rai of Oil Palm Plantation: A Catastrophe for the Thai People - By Ms.Bandita Yangdee - Project for Ecological Awareness Building (EAB)

• Mekong groups call for World Bank, ADB and other donors to stop promoting tree plantations

• Propriété contre possession. Les conflits éco-sociaux liés aux plantations industrielles d’arbres dans le Sud - Julien-François Gerber - August 2006 (only in French)

• Statement Of Unity - Mekong Regional Conference on Tree Plantations - Cambodia, November 21 - 22, 2006

• Plantations are not Forests. Commercial Tree Plantations in the Mekong Region
  Watershed Vol. 9 No. 3 March - June 2004
  Published by Towards Ecological Recovery and Regional Alliance (TERRA)

• Commercial tree plantations in Thailand: Flawed science, dubious politics and vested interests
  by Pornpana Kuaycharoen

• Certifying the Uncertifiable. FSC Certification of Tree Plantations in Thailand and Brazil. This book aims at contributing to the debate over the certification of large-scale tree monocultures. World Rainforest Movement - August 2003. Also available in Portuguese and Spanish

• Pulping the Mekong. Compilation of articles and briefing papers written and edited by Chris Lang in 2002-2003.
  Published by: Oxfam Mekong Initiative, TERRA, World Rainforest Movement

• FSC must stop certifying large-scale tree monocultures!! Research coordinated by WRM with support from the Friends of the Earth biodiversity project on three specific cases of FSC certified plantations: one in Thailand and two in Brazil:

• Smartwood's Certification of the Forest Industry Organisation in Thailand: Why FSC Should Revoke the Certificate by Chris Lang - Thailand, November 2002

• OilWatch Photo Exhibit. The Oil Flows, the Earth Bleeds. 10 Years of Resistance

• Underlying Causes of Deforestation and Forest Degradation: Politics of Dynamic Deforestation in Thailand.

• The Pulp Invasion: The international pulp and paper industry in the Mekong Region

• Thailand: The fast-growing pulp and paper industry
  by Chris Lang

• Impacts of Monoculture: The Case of Eucalyptus Plantations in Thailand
  by Areerat Kittisiri - Rural Reconstruction and Friends Association (RRAFA),
  June 1996, Thailand

• 2003
  - Endorse Petition to World Bank to Decommission Pak Mun Dam

• 2002
  - Endorse Petition to Restore the Mun River!
  - Request Thai government to approve the draft Community Forest Bill

• 2001
  - Sign-on to support villagers affected by Pak Mun Dam

• 2000
  - Pak Mun villagers need your support
  - Support to People's Version of the Community Forest Bill
  - Villagers affected by the Pak Mun dam in Thailand
  - Boycott the Bulldozer movie!

• 1999
  - Sign-on letter: Rasi Salai Dam in Thailand
  - Support requested for peoples' rally

LINKS

MEKONG RIVER
http://mekongriver.org/

Mekong info
http://www.mekonginfo.org/

Oxfam Mekong Initiative
http://www.oxfammekong.org/ 

TERRA/PER (Thailand)
http://www.terraper.org/

WWF - Thailand Programme Office
http://www.wwfthai.org/th/

Salween Watch
http://www.salweenwatch.org/