Causes of Deforestation

ALL THE ARTICLES ON DEFORESTATION PUBLISHED IN THE WRM BULLETIN
2010 Bolivia: Hydroelectric dams on the Madera River denounced at the People’s Permanent Tribunal French economic group Bolloré attempts to intimidate journalists who expose abusive practices on its plantations in Cameroon Chile: Professional foresters denounce violations by company certified by CERTFOR and FSC Paraguay: Report on the Ayoreo People by IWGIA Papua New Guinea: Indigenous peoples lose their rights to investors Brazil: The double role of Norway in conserving and destroying the Amazon Guatemala: Don't sell forests, water and the future for oil! FAO and WWF: birds of a feather promote "planted forests" together Indonesia: NGOs denounce misleading propaganda of APP European Ecolabel's greenwashing of Asia Pulp and Paper must stop Madagascar: Forest communities impacted by a Rio Tinto mine Honduras: Shrimp farm expansion within a Ramsar Site and protected area Ecuador: The long struggle in defence of El Pambilar forest The invisible women and men who resist against the destruction of their territory in the northern Great Chaco The Garo Women in Bangladesh: Life of a Forest People without Forest International Year of Biodiversity: And what about peoples? Africa: The huge value of mangroves for communities Bangladesh: The role of the ADB and World Bank in the destruction of the "forest of the fallen leaves" Chile: Research provides data on the role of native forests in the production of water Hiding monoculture oil palm plantations under a business-friendly "forest" definition México: Violent evictions in Chiapas for establishing oil palm monocultures Malaysia: Penan demand against government for forestry licenses Peru: Resistance to the Romero oil palm group Indonesia: Government proposes 21 million hectares of plantations to meet climate targets 2009 Indonesia: Plantations, human rights and REDD Kenya: Ogiek's rights violated by climate change and by measures to stop it Hydropower on the Mekong: Where dams may block the future of millions Paraguay: Deforestation violates human rights of indigenous peoples living in voluntary isolation Posco: Destroying forests in India and establishing carbon sink plantations in Uruguay Argentine forestry sector in the spotlight at the World Forestry Congress Ecuador: Statement by the indigenous peoples against forest/REDD CO2lonialism Uganda: Carbon sink plantation - where trees are more important than people Argentina: Wichi and Guarani women raise their voices against deforestation linked to soybean expansion Burma: The looming social and environmental disaster of the Tasang dam Kenya: Projected sugar cane plantations may wipe out invaluable Tana River Delta Meeting of the Latin American network against monoculture tree plantations Mangrove Action Day- July 26th Ecuador: Memory and future emerge from women’s struggle for their mangroves In Africa mangroves are disappearing and with them, the livelihoods of its people Bangladesh: losing mangroves to shrimp farming leads to food loss and environmental insecurity Brazil: New legislation allows agribusiness to advance in the Amazon Dominican Republic: The people say “no” to the cement factory at Los Haitises! India: Dehradun Declaration of forest people Mexico: Oil palm business at the expense of the poor The gaping chasm between climate science and climate negotiations Nigeria: The long arm of justice is finally catching up on Shell Peru: The silent genocide of the last uncontacted indigenous groups GenderCC urges to really stop deforestation, not promote carbon offsetting Uganda: BIDCO Oil palm plantation expansion will further put at risk local communities livelihoods Guatemala: sugarcane’s bitter consequences India: Jatropha plantations destroy the livelihoods of poor local communities Mekong Citizens to Hand 15,000 Signature “Save the Mekong” Petition to Thai PM Cambodia's Prey Long forest is “equivalent to life itself” for local communities Ecuador: Disputes against shrimp farming contribute to women’s lib Gabon: Marc Ona Essangui awarded 2009 Goldman Environmental Prize Peru: Amazon peoples, bastions of resistance Strong protest against WWF’s plans to certify the unsustainable industrial aquaculture Australia: Concern over plantations swept under the carpet by environmental movement Cambodia: Indigenous people confronted with a rubber plantation empire Guatemala: Social and environmental impacts of oil palm plantations New WRM Information tools China: Facing two evils -deforestation and monoculture tree plantations Nigeria: Michelin’s rubber plantations destroyed women’s livelihoods Malaysia: River siltation due to deforestation underlying severe floods in Sarawak Indonesia: Criminalization of social leader for the benefit of oil palm corporation Nigeria: Tyres at the expense of people’s livelihoods Paraguay: Action to protect Indigenous Peoples in voluntary isolation cannot be delayed The ADB is destroying the Mekong's forests and the planet's climate Brazil: Agribusiness, deforestation and climate change Costa Rica: Grass-roots resistance to open cast mining in Crucitas Mexico: Mining causes ecocide in Coahuayana, Michoacan Nigeria: Gas flaring – major contributor to climate change and human rights abuses Cambodia: Indigenous women raise their voices to protect their forest and traditional livelihoods from rubber plantation companies français português Thailand: Diversity and community forest use versus monocultures and parks français português Africa, my Africa! Uganda: Forests, communities and women An overview of the problems faced by Mozambique’s forests, forest-dependent peoples and forest workers Democratic Republic of the Congo: Deforestation of protected areas for mining operations in the province of Katanga – The case of the Basse Kando Reserve Brazil: Amazon deforestation takes on new force français português Mangrove Loss and Climate Change—A Global Perspective français português The high cost of excessive paper consumption Forests, agrofuels and policies of hunger Second generation agrofuels will destroy ecosystems and worsen the food crisis Words and deeds in forest protection “Avoided deforestation" policies and indigenous peoples and local communities: urgent debate needed on potential social impacts A message from the Amazon against “environmental services” The causes of deforestation and those responsible for it The need to listen to and learn from local communities Those who protect and those who destroy the forests
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Amazonía: Selva y Bosques diez años después de Río Publicación de Censat-Agua Viva en ocasión de la Cumbre Mundial de Johannesburgo. Julio 2002 (only in Spanish) Bosque Amazónico: 10 años después de la Cumbre de la Tierra Análisis de la situación actual de los bosques amazónicos, en relación a su conservación, manejo y destrucción, teniendo como marco el cumplimiento o no de los acuerdos de Río. WRM - Diciembre de 2001. (only in Spanish) Rethinking the Causes of Deforestation: Lessons from Economic Models by Arild Angelsen & David Kaimowitz Sold Down the River / La forêt prise en otage. The need to control transnational forestry corporations: a European case study by Forests Monitor Ltd, March 2001