ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN THE WRM BULLETIN

2012

• Earth grabbing: The ongoing concentration and privatisation of land, water, air
• Destructive Investments in Laos and Cambodia
• Mozambique: Monoculture tree plantation projects foster land grabbing, threaten food security
• Petition to support Chinese lawyer imprisoned because of defending communities affected by Stora Enso´s eucalyptus plantations in China
• New crossroads, same actors: The green economy of the powerful, voices of resistance of women
• Honduras: Women fighting for land against a backdrop of violence and murders
• Public response of WRM to Forest Trends
• Special WRM Bulletin focused on Environmental Services
• Ecuador: Pronouncement in Defence of Pachamama and Life
• Brazil: The definition of forest – another front for resistance and reconquest
• Chile: Forest fires and repression, the legacy of the industrial tree plantation model
• Industrial monoculture tree plantations in South Africa: The culture of traditional healers versus the culture of consumption
• Philippines: The increasing menace of oil palm plantations in Palawan
• Oil palm plantations behind land-grabbing in Sierra Leone
• India: Michelin factory menaces forest of the “untouchables"

2011

• Mega-projects and the criminalization of struggles to defend people's rights in India and Honduras
• Human rights crisis in palm oil estates in Indonesia
• Dutch pension fund denounced for investing in monoculture tree plantations in Mozambique
• Disaster foretold for the extreme south, south and southwest of the state of Bahia
• Liberia: The case of Vattenfall – African timber to save the climate in Germany?
• The new trend of biomass plantations in Brazil: tree monocultures
• India: Forests and tree plantations under carbon offset schemes
• Uganda: New Forests Company – FSC legitimizes the eviction of thousands of people from their land and the sale of carbon credits
• Uruguay: Pulp plantations threaten dairy heartland
• Indonesia: Sources of livelihood threatened by REDD+, mining and oil palm projects
• Colombia: Monoculture tree plantations threaten land and food sovereignty
• Montevideo Declaration: STOP the expansion of monoculture tree plantations!
• September 21: A tribute to Ricardo Carrere and to all those who struggle against monoculture tree plantations and in defence of life!
• En souvenir de Ricardo Carrere…
• Some hints on tree plantations
• No to the WWF New Generation Plantations Project! 
• Indonesia: debt, plantations and resistance
• India: Tribal women of Kaimur plant native trees to protest JICA-funded government tree plantation drive
• Mozambique: Timber plantations expansion
• Oil palm in Benin: From small-scale production by women to large-scale corporate industry
• On the International Day of Struggle against Tree Plantations let’s define the forest by its true meaning
• Towards September 21
• Brazil: Mato Grosso do Sul - The new eucalyptus frontier
• Be alert! Don’t allow tree plantations to be called forests
• Asian forests lost to pet’s market
• Chile: A disastrous forestry model with new “branches” in Latin America
• Kenya: Laureate Maathai advises discouraging plantation of Eucalyptus
• Malaysia: Landmark decision against oil palm joint venture companies
• Uruguay: The power of the plantation and pulp company Montes del Plata
• Every day should be Earth Day
• Mozambique: More denunciations against Chikweti, a company financed by a Nordic “solidarity” fund
• Brazil: Women in Camp Sister Dorothy Stang – for their right to life, against monoculture eucalyptus
• Cameroon: Peoples territories being targeted for oil palm plantations
• Stora Enso makes money out of environmental crimes
• “Forest in exhaustion”: A new trick to subsidize monoculture tree plantations
• Certification is definitely not the right path to follow
• FSC and Veracel Celulose: Certification that is neither reliable nor independent
• Brazil: The case of Plantar – the FSC at the service of the sale of carbon credits
• Chile: Monoculture tree plantations on Mapuche territory, certified by the FSC?
• The world is watching as the Indonesia-Norway REDD deal stalls
• The necessary changes to genuinely celebrate the International Year of Forests

2010

• Human Rights Day: A Story of Social Struggles
• Guatemala: Oil palm and sugar cane monoculture plantations hurt local communities on the CoyolateRiver
• Oil palm in Nigeria: shifting from smallholders and women to mass production
• Brazil: Aracruz sows violence and destruction in Espirito Santo
• Uruguay: Tree plantation workers and agrotoxic spraying
• South Africa: Research shows conclusive results on the impacts of tree plantations on water
• Chikweti plantations in Mozambique: Will the FSC continue certifying the uncertifiable?
• From climate change to climate disaster: A thin oil line
• Biodiversity Justice: The way forward for life on earth
• Brazil:  Sustainable on paper - the eucalyptus plantations of Bahia
• Análisis crítico de “La silvicultura y el agua: Ciencia, Dogmas, Desafíos” (Walter de Paula Lima, 2010) - Only available in Portuguese
• Cameroun: un village résiste à la tentative de Socapalm de planter des palmiers à huile dans ses terres - Only available in French
• Nigeria: Women at forefront of struggle against oil corporations
• The human right to water
• Indonesia: Giant eucalyptus plantation company destroys Benzoin forest gardens
• Tree plantations challenged at Climate Change Convention meeting
• How FAO helps greenwash the timber industry’s greenhouse gas emissions
• Bénin: Les femmes exclues par la modernisation de la production d'huile de palme - Only available in French
• Brasil: Comunidades quilombolas reconvertem eucaliptais - Only available in Portuguese
• Honduras: empapada en sangre también por la palma de aceite – 3 nuevas víctimas - - Only available in Spanish
• Special Bulletin on the International Day Against Tree Monocultures
• Shopping carbon in forests: the wrong road to Cancun
• Brazil: The “productive resistance” of Quilombola communities surrounded by eucalyptus plantations
• Equatorial Guinea: possible expansion of oil palm plantations
• The FAO insists: monoculture tree plantations are forests!
• Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation says tree plantations are not forests
• Indonesia: Sinar Mas pulp and paper plantations encroaching on forests and peatlands
• Posco: Bad for India, bad for Uruguay and bad for the climate
• Free Trade Agreements with the European Union in Latin America: A path to the loss of sovereignty and territories
• French economic group Bolloré attempts to intimidate journalists who expose abusive practices on its plantations in Cameroon
• Cameroon: Refuting ten lies about SOCAPALM plantations
• Uruguay: A new opportunity for much-needed debate on the pulp-plantation model
• Chile: Professional foresters denounce violations by company certified by CERTFOR and FSC
• Community rights should be at the centre of resource use in Africa
• Following in the Footprints of Cochabamba
• Kenya: The Forest Service to the rescue of eucalyptus
• The Pulp Invasion continues: Companies linked to Asia Pulp and Paper setting up in Vietnam
• Mozambique: Video and Publication on the expansion of tree plantations
• World Bank: No more funding for oil palm plantations!
• 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
• Brazil: Communities hit by monoculture eucalyptus plantations exchange experiences in Minas Gerais
• South Africa: Thirsty alien trees in a water scarce country
• RSPO: The impossible "greening" of the palm oil business
• Brasil: Outrage over killing of local man by Fibria Celulose's guards
• Empowered women: Social struggles and gender consciousness
• Papua New Guinea: Women in Oil Palm Association become empowered
• The Garo Women in Bangladesh: Life of a Forest People without Forest
• Brazil: For whom and why do women struggle?
• 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
• Mangrove restoration is necessary, mangrove monoculture plantation is not
• Brazil: Once again opposing Plantar’s CDM project
• Hiding monoculture oil palm plantations under a business-friendly “forest” definition
• Laos: Research on the impacts of rubber plantations
• México: Violent evictions in Chiapas for establishing oil palm monocultures
• India: Pushing 'REDD plus' at the expense of forests and forest dwellers
• Peru: Resistance to the Romero oil palm group
• Brazil: The negative impacts of monoculture eucalyptus plantations has lead to suspending them in various localities in the State of Sao Paulo
• Mozambique: Pine and eucalyptus companies are advancing on peasant land in the north of the country
• South Africa: Threatened grasslands
• Uruguay: A place where the lies about plantations are all too obvious
• What is behind the term 'Planted Forests'

2009

• Indonesia: Plantations, human rights and REDD
• Colombia: Oil-palm plantations, violation of human rights and Afro-descendent communities' quest for true dignity
• Congo: Tar sands and palm oil projects threaten local communities and undermine efforts to tackle climate change
• Planting trees in the deserts
• Greenwashing the green desert in Copenhagen
• Forests again high on the agenda "really forests"?
• Social resistance against the World Forestry Congress
• Argentine forestry sector in the spotlight at the World Forestry Congress
• Mounting pressure against eucalyptus in Kenya, described as the “water guzzler”
• Testimonies of tree plantations and depletion of water resources
• Posco: Destroying forests in India and establishing carbon sink plantations in Uruguay
• Northern paper over-consumption promoting green deserts in the South
• Special Bulletin on the International Day Against Tree Monocultures
• Indonesia: Indigenous Peoples oppose acacia plantations on their customary lands
• Indonesia: Call for suspension of World Bank (IFC) lending to oil palm
• Malaysia: Indigenous Peoples call for a moratorium on large-scale tree plantations
• Meeting of the Latin American network against monoculture tree plantations
• Brazil: FSC greenwashing of eucalyptus plantations is strongly questioned and a warning made vis-à-vis their advance in Piaui
• Laos: Chinese company Sun Paper plans eucalyptus monocultures
• Mexico: Oil palm business at the expense of the poor
• Statement on Tree Plantations from participants at recent Forest Movement Europe meeting
• GE trees: when scientists mutate into publicists
• India: Jatropha plantations destroy the livelihoods of poor local communities
• Uganda: BIDCO Oil palm plantation expansion will further put at risk local communities livelihoods
• Uruguay: The Ence, Arauco and Stora Enso’s eucalyptus and pulp fairytales
• Arborgen Seeks to Legalize GE Eucalyptus Trees in U.S. -Brazil is Not Far Behind
• Cambodia's Prey Long forest is “equivalent to life itself” for local communities
• Field trial of genetically modified trees: Belgian government’s contribution to International Day for Biological Diversity
• Cambodia's Prey Long forest is “equivalent to life itself” for local communities
• Australia: Concern over plantations swept under the carpet by environmental movement
• Chile: Opposition to government subsidies for the expansion of monoculture tree plantations
• China: Eucalyptus plantations - from Finland with conflict
• Costa Rica: Government boosts subsidies for monoculture tree plantations
• Guatemala: Social and environmental impacts of oil palm plantations
• Cambodia: Indigenous people confronted with a rubber plantation empire
• New video online on timber plantations in Southern Africa
• The FAO has no time to be “distracted” from its mission of promoting plantations

• Brazil: On Women’s day, peasant women struggle against tree plantations

• China: Facing two evils -deforestation and monoculture tree plantations

• Venezuela: Seizure of Smurfit tree plantations sets new course for the future

• Brazil: Occupation of Veracel’s tree plantations calls upon land reform

• Declaration of Heredia on Climate, Forests and Plantations

• Wilful ignorance: FAO and industrial tree plantations

• FSC: Increasingly alone in the path of tree plantation certification

• New WRM Information tools

• Women raise their voices in three continents

• Papua New Guinea: Women against further expansion of oil palm

• Nigeria: Michelin’s rubber plantations destroyed women’s livelihoods

• Brazil: Women impacted by eucalyptus plantations speak out

• Video: Women raise their voices against tree plantations

• Brazil: Veracel plantations, certified land seizure

• Brazil: A private sector rationale in forestry training at Viçosa Federal University

• Indonesia: Criminalization of social leader for the benefit of oil palm corporation

• Paraguay: Peasants can better confront eucalyptus advancing on their lands thanks to the experience of their Brazilian peers

• Uruguay: A new land redistribution...in favour of forestry companies

2008

• Special Bulletin: Tree Plantations in the Mekong Region
• Uruguay: Eucalyptus plantations degrade soils and release carbon  
• Why an International Day Against Tree Monocultures? français português
• A PowerPoint presentation based on local testimonials français português
• Statement by forestry professionals and students français português
• Plantations we support and plantations we oppose français português
• Cameroon: Bagyeli severely impacted by the establishment of industrial plantations français português
• Liberia: Painful rubber – the hard day’s life of Firestone tappers français português
• South Africa: Tree plantations ravaged by fire turned a lurking tragedy into a sad reality français português
• Cambodia: Indigenous women raise their voices to protect their forest and traditional livelihoods from rubber plantation companies français português
• Indonesia: Harsh conditions for women workers in oil palm plantations français português
• Malaysia: Those who lose in the oil palm business français português
• Thailand: Diversity and community forest use versus monocultures and parks
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• Argentina: Indigenous and environmental activists sound alarm over plans to promote tree plantations français português
• A Green Desert in the South of Latin America français português
• Chile: A forestry model generating poverty and extreme poverty français português
• Victories of peoples’ resistance in Peru and Brazil français português
• FSC: Stop certifying monoculture tree plantations! français português

• Brazil: The pulp and paper companies’ “green international quality standard labels” français português

• African Friends of the Earth
• Tree Plantations in Africa: A co-ordinated onslaught to grab what remains of Africa’s natural capital?

• Brazil: Historic federal court decision sentences Veracel Celulose (Stora Enso-Aracruz) for environmental violations français português

• Chile: Documentary-maker jailed for filming a documentary on the Mapuche struggle against forestry companies français português

• Colombia: Oil palm grows by the force of violence français português

• Malaysia: Blockades against Sarawak oil palm company français português

• West Africa: Wilmar and Olam International ambitious expansion plans for palm oil français português

• Chile: The “modern slaves” of the “forestry boom”

• The Confederation of European Paper Industries' Looking-Glass World

• Malaysia: The logging trail leading to tree monocultures in Sarawak

• Africa: Food sovereignty threatened by AGRA

• Indonesia: Killings by Perhutani in East Java teak plantations – a twofold perverted notion of joint forest management

• Ivory Coast: Tanoé Swamps Forest under destruction by Unilever/Palm-Ci’s oil palm plantations

• South Africa: A visit to Komatiland Forests industrial tree monocultures
• Bursts of true life into the Convention on Biological Diversity
• Australia/Tasmania: Deal favours Gunns’ pulp mill project despite popular opposition

• Burma: Generals go berserk on biofuels

• Ghana: Norwegian biofuel company destroyed local forest to establish a large jatropha (1) plantation

• Indonesia: Destruction of forests by pulpwood and oil palm plantations drives climate change

• Peru: Government intent on privatizing the Amazon for implementing tree plantations

• Second generation agrofuels will destroy ecosystems and worsen the food crisis

• The Brazil of Stora Enso: Violence against women and made-to-measure legislation

• Colombia: Oil palm plantation workers in Puerto Wilches on strike

• Ecuador: Social and environmental impacts of oil palm

• Malaysia: Severe health effects of pesticides on workers in oil palm plantations

• Argentina: Scientists confirm that plantations dry up streams and salinise groundwater

• Water contamination with pesticides in oil palm plantations

• Congo, D.R: The oil palm invasion has started
• Belgium: Field trials planned of GM poplar trees for ethanol

• Growing networking against GE trees

• Increased poverty, land conflicts and deforestation: The Asian Development Bank's plantations record

• Indonesia: Call for Action against certification of Riau Andalan Pulp and Paper’s timber plantations

• Indonesia: New report on the human rights impacts of oil palm plantation expansion

• Spain: The NORFOR/ENCE certification, yet another FSC fraud

• Thailand: Rubber plantations against forests, people and health

• Uganda: Why Is FSC Certifying Land Disputes and Human Rights Abuses at Mount Elgon?

• Aridity and death vs diversity and fertility: a women’s view of plantations
• Chile: Patricia Troncoso, a symbol of the Mapuche struggle against a Government at the service of forestry companies

• Indonesia: Leading oil palm producer. Leading carbon emitter?

• Paper Industry & Pine Plantations in the Southern United States

• Zimbabwe: Tree plantations to accrue greenhouse gases emissions credits

2007

• Why carbon sink plantations have been hardly implemented within the Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism…so far
• Chile: What is not said about work in tree plantations

• Chile: The worthless CERTFOR tree plantation certification label

• Papua New Guinea: Woodlark’s islanders demand a halt to oil palm plantations

• Swaziland: Woodmark and SAPPI ignore the lessons from a neighbouring farmer

• The European Union and agrofuels: Making the unsustainable “sustainable”

• Special Bulletin on Climate Change and the Expansion of Tree Plantations
• Pulpwood Plantations: All roads lead to Rome

• Brazil: Women and Eucaliptus; stories of life and resistance

• Colombia: Is the FSC Seal Applied to Blood-Stained Timber?

• Kenya: Pan Paper plans to expand its polluting operations

• Papua New Guinea: Women and Oil Palm

• Swaziland/South Africa/Uganda: The illusion of storing carbon in tree plantations goes up in smoke

• Uruguay: Labour conditions in two FSC certified tree nurseries

• ArborGen – the world's biggest GM tree research company plans to get bigger

• European Forest Institute chooses to ignore the "overwhelmingly negative" social effects of GM trees

• Next steps in the indigenous struggle: Territorial reoccupation and reconversion of eucalyptus plantations
• Working conditions on tree plantations: A health issue

• Uruguay: The sad situation of tree plantation workers

• South Africa: Working conditions and the contract labour system in timber plantations

• Malaysia: “Cheap” Paraquat at the expense of the workers’ health

• Clear as mud: FSC's position on GM trees

• Bangladesh: The Modhupur fortified forest

• Australia: Pulping democracy

• Colombia: Communities eradicate oil palm plantations to repossess their territory

• Sweden: Research into GE trees risks irreversible damage to forests

• New report and website on the pulp industry

• Indonesia: The impacts of oil palm plantations on women
• Papua New Guinea: Life can be hard for women in oil palm plantations
• FSC Certification of Veracel: A turning point or business as usual?
• Brazil: The impossible certification of Veracel

• The reasons why Veracel cannot be certified, seen from the standpoint of society

• Brazil: Indigenous Peoples re-start actions to take back their land from Aracruz

• Chile: The short-lived lies of a “successful” forestry model

• Congo, Republic: Thousands of hectares of land for eucalyptus, oil palm and mining

• Indonesia: Agrofuel from oil palm –the poor pay with higher edible oil prices

• Papua New Guinea: Women most affected by oil palm plantations

• Benin: Large scale oil palm plantations for agrofuel

• Proposed changes to CDM rules will give incentive to clear forest and provide subsidy for plantations industry

• Brazil: Third V&M’s go under CDM for their tree plantations

• Eucalyptus plantations as biomass fuel: substituting evil for wrong

• Brazil: Response to Veracel’s attempt to obtain the FSC label for its plantations

• Ecuador: Public outcry demanding revision of the Agrarian and Forestry Plan

• Indonesia: Common Vision towards a stop to the expansion of pulpwood plantations

• South Africa: Commercial timber plantations as “take it or leave it” development option for rural areas

• Thailand: Advance Agro's greenwash

• A meeting in Europe with bankers about pulp mills and finance

• Tree plantations, GM trees and agrofuels: A call to CBD

• Brazil: Why landless women are opposed to monoculture eucalyptus plantations

• International Meeting against Monoculture Eucalyptus Plantations

• Uruguay: National Initiative for the Suspension of monoculture tree plantations

• New WRM Video section on plantations and pulp mills
• When will the FAO stop calling fast wood plantations “forests”?

• Swaziland: Large-scale tree plantations which are no exception to the rule

• Brazil: An overview of monoculture eucalyptus plantations

• Cambodia: Indigenous Jarai take out legal case to reclaim their land

• Swaziland: FSC credibility hits all time low with certification of Sappi

• Treethanol: A remedy worse than the malady
• Australia: Tasmania shows the way to ban tree plantations

• India: World Bank forestry project goes from bad to worse

• Kenya: Let’s plant seeds of peace and hope, not seeds of conflict!

2006

• Cambodia: Mekong Regional Conference on Tree Plantations
• Peru: Promotion of plantations based on falsehoods
• Brazil: International day of action for demarcation of the lands of the Tupinikim and Guarani indians

• First Steps of the Southern African Plantation Action Network (SAPAN)

• Cambodia: Indigenous people resist the spread of industrial tree plantations

• Liberia: New Forestry Law raises hopes and doubts
• India: Different plantation species, same problems

• Indonesia: Trouble at the mill. UFS to open new wood chip mill

• United States: Opposition to U.S. Conference on Fast Growing Plantations

• International Day Against Monoculture Tree Plantations
• Brazil and Uruguay: Stora Enso’s promises and the harsh reality
• Cambodia: Impacts of pine tree plantations in the Mondolkiri province

• India: Will new National Forest Policy open the door to GM trees?

• Indonesia: World Bank/WWF experts look for new ways to subsidise plantations

• Peru: The pillagers of yesterday and today, from deforestation to plantations

• South Africa: Differentiated impacts of tree plantations on women

• Special Bulletin on FCS's Plantations Certification Review
• From Mexico to Ecuador – twinned in history, memory and resistance
• Brazil: Impacts of eucalyptus plantations on women

• Colombia: Community challenges multinational company Smurfit Carton de Colombia

• Ecuador: A strange “dialogue” for the promotion of tree monocultures

• Mozambique: Paving the way for industrial tree plantations

• Mexico: Talking of trees
• Chile: The Mapuche peoples' resistance to the plantation invasion
• Ecuador: Action and proposals against monoculture tree plantations
• Indonesia: Expansion of pulpwood plantations including Acacia
• China: The usual quiz about eucalyptus plantations and water
• South Africa: Impacts of tree plantations on birds
• A message from the Amazon against “environmental services”
• Aotearoa/New Zealand: Absolutely positively NOT forests
• Brazil: Paper pulp companies must remove eucalyptus plantations in Bahia’s national parks buffer zones
• Colombia: The Forestry (logging) Bill was adopted without discussion
• Creating ‘manageable’ forests: Plantations and Plantation Workers in India
• Nigeria: Tree plantations at the expense of forests and forest people’s livelihoods
• The corporate power of the pulp and paper industry
• Laos: ADB's eucalyptus plantations increase poverty
• Burma: Selling timber, buying instability, poverty and destruction
• Colombia: The slip-ups of the Forestry Bill in Colombia
• Costa Rica: Lessons learnt from the struggle against plantations
• The most destructive crop on earth is no solution to the energy crisis
• Disembarkation of the Nordic pulp industry in the South and the World Bank

2005

• Special Bulletin on Plantations
• Democratic Republic of Congo: New logging thrust into rainforests
• South Africa: Sappi Saiccor to expand its polluting pulp mill?
• Uganda: BIDCO oil palm plantations at the cost of pristine rainforests in Bugala
• Indonesia: Proposed UFS pulp mill threatens forests and nearby communities
• Malaysia: MTCC certificates logging concession disregarding Penan’s rights and will
• Brazil: Worked to death by Aracruz
• Colombia: Oil palm plantations on usurped communal lands
• Uruguay: World Bank Ombudsman confirms pulp mill risks
• Oil-palm plantations: No sustainability possible with Paraquat
• Colombia: A forestry law for the foreign capital business
• South Africa: Following a road of impoverishment with monoculture tree plantations
• Australia: Nippon Paper in south eastern Australia
• A demand for a moratorium on FSC certification of timber plantations
• Special Bulletin on Health, Plantations and Health
• Argentina: Pine trees advance on the forests of Misiones
• Cameroon: Will new support to forest sector enhance benefits for local populations?
• Mozambique: Forestry in Zambezia province, Chinese takeaway!
• Australia: Nippon paper to go green in Tasmania and elsewhere?
• From Spain, a request to urgently cancel an Ence subsidiary’s certification
• "Open for business": How the International Finance Corporation subsidises the pulp and paper industry
• The Inter-American Development Bank, Forests and Plantations
• Uruguay: Campaign against IFC funding of pulp mill projects
• Liberia: Report exposes dire working and living conditions in Firestone rubber plantation
• South Africa: Timber plantations and the Graskop community
• Chile: Another Mapuche martyr dies as victim of an attack by a forestry company
• Colombia: Expansion of the oil palm in a framework of Human Rights violation
• Investing in disaster: the IFC and palm oil plantations in Indonesia
• Forestry projects: certification
• The International Finance Corporation (IFC): Luring Increased Private Sector Investment into Forestry and other Sectors Affecting Forests At Any Price?
• FSC Plantations Review under way
• V&M do Brazil's carbon plantations proposal backfires
• Monoculture tree plantations targeted by a Latin American network
• Monocultures: The symbol of an outdated model
• Forests and plantations: An essentially social issue
• Swaziland: The impact of 50 years of industrial forestry
• Brazil: Open letter of social organisations rejecting the certification of Aracruz Celulose

2004

• Venezuela: Will Chavez intervene in the communities’ dispute over Smurfit plantations?
• Kenya: The controversial 'shamba system' of exotic tree plantations
• Special Bulletin on Genetically Modified Trees
• Papua New Guinea: Customary Landowners' declaration on logging, mining and oil palm plantations
• Thai government targets eviction of Pang Daeng ethnic communities for tourism and tree plantations
• Malaysia: Sabah indigenous communities' struggle against logging and oil palm plantations
• FSC 's plantations certification review: A good start
• Oil palm and soybean: Two paradigmatic deforestation cash crops
• Indonesia: Palming the forest
• Forests and Monocultures: Change something so that nothing changes
• The Plantar PCF project still in the spotlight
• Pulp mills and transgenic trees: From Spain to Finland, opposition is manifest
• Also in the Mekong … plantations are not forests!
• South Africa: FSC Certification of Industrial Timber Plantations
• Special Bulletin on the impacts of pulp production
• Uganda: The plague Has Come to Eucalyptus Plantations
• Genetically modified trees cause memory loss
• Brazil: A categorical demonstration against the green desert and in favour of life
• Swaziland: Timber Plantations Impacting on People and Nature
• Australia: Strong allegation against destructive monoculture tree farms
• Brazil: Highway is blocked against expansion of eucalyptus plantations
• Swaziland: Timber plantations at the expense of Swazi people
• Tree Plantations Impact Doubly on Women
• Women Plantation Workers Poisoned and Silenced
• A Focus on Monoculture Tree Plantations

2003

• South Africa: Timberrr.! As the plantations go on growing, more South Africans are crying out a warning
• Thailand: SmartWood suspends FSC certification of two plantations
• Brazil: Plantar counterattacks after receiving award for worst carbon sink project
• Chile: Mapuche question agreement between forestry companies and environmental NGOs
• Colombia: The uncertifiable plantations of a member of the FSC Board of Directors
• World Bank Carbon Finance in Brazil: New funding source for industrial tree plantations
• Laos: EcoSecurities helps ADB provide carbon subsidies to the pulp industry
• Ecuador: Sharing experiences against monoculture tree plantations
• South Africa: Renewed call for a moratorium on timber plantations
• Uruguay-Argentina: Joint struggle against a pulp-mill
• India: Local villagers rallied against polluter paper mill
• Malaysia: Logging company encroaches and abuses Penan villagers
• Australia: A testimony of the loss of forests to Eucalyptus plantations and much more
• Kenya: A simple wasp adds a further problem to Eucalyptus
• Uganda: Deforestation, corruption and the false solution of plantations
• ADB’s draft forest policy: The politics of participation
• Papua New Guinea: Oil palm "joint venture" for the benefit of rich companies
• Land Grab in Uganda in Preparation for CDM Sinks Projects?
• Plantar: World Bank acknowledges spreading incorrect allegations
• Cambodia: Rubber plantation, deforestation and corruption
• Uruguay: Semi-slave work in plantation forestry
• Brazil: Women’s working conditions in tree plantations
• Brazil: The Alert Against the Green Desert Network demands a change in the forestry model
• Chile: Forests for people or monoculture plantations for companies
• Thailand: Certified firm is in breach of FSC Principles
• Aotearoa/New Zealand: Spraying chemicals on people to protect tree monocrops
• Asian Development Bank joins World Bank in promoting industrial scale carbon sinks projects in the South
• Plantar: The saga continues
• ADB's Draft Forest Policy: Putting Profits before People
• Ecuador: The people said no to plantations at a ministerial meeting
• Chile: Urgent need to reorient forestry policy from monoculture to forests
• China: Following the trite pattern of monoculture tree plantations
• Do you believe in Planted Forests?
• Brazil: The need to avoid eucalyptus causing the same damage in Sao Paulo as it has done in Minas Gerais
• Uruguay: Inhuman working conditions at a Chilean forestry company plantation
• Burma/Thailand/Laos: Colonial forestry - then and now
• Laos: Secrets, lies and tree plantations
• Brazil: NGOs request wide debate on the expansion of tree plantations
• Chile: Mapuche defend their land from forestry companies
• Uruguay: The absurd injustice of promoting tree plantations
• Aotearoa/New Zealand: Changing Ownership and Management of State Owned Plantations
• Latin American Network Against Tree Monocultures is born
• SinksWatch: An NGO initiative to scrutinize tree plantation carbon sinks projects
• Aotearoa/New Zealand: US company to grow genetically engineered trees?
• Indonesia: Reopening of Indorayon pulp mill encounters strong local opposition
• South Africa: Tree plantations render corporation profits but fire, damages and death for the people
• Mexico: The door is open to "neo-liberal" tree plantations
• Brazil: Stora Enso and Aracruz plan the world's biggest pulp mill
• Indonesia: WWF report links oil palm plantations to widespread deforestation
• Indonesia: Report on paper industry's abuses on human rights
• Argentina: The "forests of silence" or the pine plantations at the Yungas
• Research on FSC certification of plantations in Brazil

   

2002

• Costa Rica: The slow death of large-scale monoculture eucalyptus plantations
• What is the Future of FSC Certification in South Africa?
• Ghana: "Promissory" reforestation plans end up in unemployment
• Colombia: Anti-trade union policy in oil palm plantations
• Brazil: Civil society letter to the Prototype Carbon Fund on Plantar's eucalyptus plantations
• Chile: Police at the service of a forestry company murder a young Mapuche
• Uruguay: What is FSC certifying?
• Australia: Tasmanian farms which fed people replaced by farms which feed woodchip mills
• Brazil: Research questions FSC certification of two plantations
• Thailand: FSC should revoke Forest Industry Organisation certificate
• The FSC must stop certifying large-scale tree monocultures
• The value of the Plantar Project's sequestration credits should be zero
• Japan: Sick from monoculture tree plantations
• Brazil: While the people are roused to indignation, Aracruz celebrates
• Australia: Tree plantations grabbing thriving forests
• "Planted forests" in the run-up to Johannesburg
• Indonesia: Gender impacts of commercial tree plantations
• Mexico: Who benefits from oil palm in Chiapas?
• Argentina: The plantation business, are we neo-liberal or are we not?
• Cambodia: Rubber and palm oil plantations impact on local communities
• Samoa: Eucalyptus vaccine for logging virus?
• The Pulp Invasion: The international pulp and paper industry in the Mekong Region
• Argentina: A forestry company invades Guarani community lands in Misiones
• Brazil: Aracruz Celulose is now facing problems in two states
• Playing God with trees for money making
• The "tree armies" as seen by Eduardo Galeano
• Sri Lanka: The Forestry establishment still does not understand a forest
• Aotearoa/New Zealand: Meeting the CBD obligations and the need for a definition of what is not a forest
• Thailand: United States' carbon sink plantation proposal rejected
• Chile: Invasion of Mapuche territory by tree plantation companies
• Biotechnology: The dangerous paradigm of modern industrial forestry
• Indonesia: Oil palm plantations at the heart of biodiversity destruction
• Chile: Forests burnt to substitute them by monoculture tree plantations
• Australia: Joint Submission against tree plantation scheme in Tasmania
• Indonesia: Pulp and paper company APRIL and forest destruction
• South Africa: Tree plantations' impacts on bird populations
• Ethiopia: Deforestation and monoculture plantations behind the fires
• Chile: Poverty and wealth generated by plantation forestry companies
• Australia: Joint Submission against tree plantation scheme in Tasmania
• World Bank Forest Policy: holding our breath
• Brazil: Stopped in Espirito Santo, Aracruz wants to plant eucalyptus in Rio de Janeiro
• Uruguay: Will IDB-funded private port include a pulp mill?
• USA: Eucalyptus, the largest weed

2001

• The ITTO raves about plantations
• Mexico: Finnish environmentalists concerned by Finnish forestry plan
• Brazil: Eucalyptus plantations banned in Espirito Santo!
• Colombia: The hard life of oil palm plantation workers
• Chile: Tree plantations and pulp production generate poverty and destitution
• Good news from Indonesia on oil palm!!!
• Laos: Freedom of information, industrial tree plantations and the ADB
• Australian carbon sinks: good for investors, bad for the environment
• Solomon Islands: The alternative to large scale operations
• Philippines: Planting trees and terror
• South Africa: Where impact of plantations on water is accepted as fact
• Brazil: the rights of Aracruz and the rights of the people
• The sad figures of employment generated by plantation companies
• Mexico: Opposition to forestry plan prepared by Finnish consultancy firm
• Growth does have limits, and scale is truly an issue
• Vietnam: Social and environmental impacts from export-oriented coffee production
• South Africa: Quo vadis FSC?
• China: Exporting deforestation and promoting tree monocultures
• Vietnam: Carbon sink plantations to avoid emission reductions in Australia
• Chile: Tree monocultures threaten unique forest type
• Argentina: Monoculture tree plantations impact on grassland bird populations
• Cambodia: Eucalyptus plantations and pulp production threaten forests and rivers
• Indonesia: Pulp and paper industry menace in South Kalimantan
• The World Bank's broken promises on its forest policy review
• Future Forest Policy must exclude GMO trees

2000

• World Bank foresters deny that plantations alleviate pressures on forests
• Indonesia: The pulp and paper sector's unsustainable growth
• Laos stops World Bank forestry programme
• Thailand: State-owned forestry industry fuels controversy with forestry certification
• Chile: The debate about tree plantations heats up
• Uruguay: No transgenic trees ... for the time being
• Brazil: Aracruz caught red handed destroying native forests
• Chile: Wine production threatened by pulp mill project
• Weyerhaeuser's president promotes plantations in Guyana
• India: Mining and plantations put National Park at risk
• Laos: Subsidies for Swedish profits in the forestry sector
• Malaysia: Campaign against plantation and pulp mill project in Sabah
• Films on forests and plantations receive award
• Carbon sink plantations: less biodiversity = less carbon storage
• Forests better than plantations, even as carbon sinks
• Tree plantations: a false alternative to deforestation in Cameroon
• Oil Palm Plantation in Cambodia
• Costa Rica: The dangers of tree monoculture "forests"
• Nicaragua: the adoption of the "Chilean plantation model"
• Aotearoa/New Zealand: Opposition to genetically engineered trees
• Whose trees? Vietnam's five million hectare "reforestation" programme
• Argentina: Forest loss and plantations in two provinces
• Hawaii: Are eucalyptus the only possible crop in Hamakua?
• Asia: Carbon plantations may prove to be problematic
• Tree plantations as sinks must be sunk
• South America: The push for carbon sink plantations
• Thailand: Massive eucalyptus plantations planned
• Brazil: The marriage of Stora Enso and Aracruz
• Pulping the South . . . of the USA
• Australia: Plantations, plantations and still more plantations...
• The invisible Nordic countries' footprint
• South Africa: Grassland ecosystem destruction by tree plantations
• Guyana: Malaysian investment in oil palm plantations
• The Mt. Tamalpais Declaration
• Argentina: Oil companies try to "green" their image
• Australia: "carbon sink" plantations invade Tasmania
• Uganda: Carbon sinks and Norwegian CO2lonialism
• South Africa: Symposium on industrial tree plantations
• Indonesia: Exploring the past and future of oil palm
• Malaysia: Resistance against logging and oil palm in Sarawak
• Thailand: Sino-Thai eucalyptus project facing opposition
• Brazil: Two approaches to a new Forestry Law
• National Forest Summit condemns "Australian forestry standard"
• Hawaii: Actions against eucalyptus expansion
• Ecuador: heart of palm cultivation results in deforestation
• Venezuela: increasing difficulties for Smurfit
• Innovative plantation initiative in Aotearoa-New Zealand
• Campaign against genetically engineered trees
• Liberia: Concerns over World Bank's promotion of rubber plantations
• Indonesia: The bitter oil palm harvest
• Malaysia: How to destroy forests in Sarawak by planting trees
• Chile: Forestry companies and security firms accused of terrorism
• Hawaii: Planned invasion of genetically manipulated trees
• Aracruz: Indigenous peoples refuse to plant eucalyptus 
• The plantations' issue in the agenda of the World Bank's FPIRS
• World Bank's Forest Policy Review
• WorldWatch Institute's new publication on the paper industry
• Dutch carbon sink plantations: adding to the problem
• WRM briefing on carbon sink plantations

1999

• Tree plantations and trade
• Plantations' impacts are always social
• Tanzania: afforestation, reforestation and the real causes of forest destruction
• World Bank promotes oil palm and rubber plantations in Liberia and Côte d'Ivoire
• Malaysia: certification against peoples' rights in Sarawak
• Aracruz: the naked emperor
• Networking in action: Australia-Uruguay
• Call for global moratorium on genetically engineered trees
• Costa Rica: the depredatory practices of an oil palm plantation company
• Thailand: eucalyptus and Jiang Zemin's coming lesson
• Brazil: FSC certification of Aracruz suspended
• Tree plantations generate unemployment
• Environmental crime linked to Peugeot in Brazil
• New scientific findings: tree plantations may accelerate global warming
• Malaysia: Oil palm development generates violence in Sarawak
• Costa Rica: secondary forests a better option than plantations
• Hawaii: tree plantations threat is back
• Foresters' willful blindness
• Scary genetically engineered trees
• "Ten replies to ten lies" in French
• Buying Destruction: a Greenpeace report for corporate consumers of forest products
• South Africa: Industrial timber plantations - asset and liability
• Malaysia: resistance to plantations in Sarawak
• Will the FSC certify Aracruz Celulose’s plantations
• Genetically engineered trees generate reaction
• US multinationals buy up Australian plantations at the expense of native forests
• Australia: communities in Tasmania are up in arms against plantations
• Course in Ecuador: "Plantations are not forests"
• The need to join forces
• Special Bulletin on Plantations
• South Africa: "How green are my plantations?"
• Paraguay: network created to monitor plantations
• Uruguay: citizens' network challenges official "research" on plantations
• Venezuela: resistance to Smurfit continues
• Privatizing plantations in South Africa
• New book on impacts of tree plantations in Indonesia
• Briefing Paper: "Pulpwood plantations: a growing problem"
• Super Trees: the biotech nightmare is already here
• South Africa: exotic tree plantations are green wastelands
• Chile: more than scientific evidence on plantations' impacts
• Certification debate in Europe: PEFC vs FSC
• Chile: the forestry model in big trouble
• Norwegian, Canadian and Korean capitals get together in global paper business
• Tree plantations: a direct cause of deforestation
• Japanese foresters invade China
• Indonesia: opposition to oilpalm plantations
• Chinese paper industry in Myanmar
• National Geographic, forests and plantations
• The myth about tree plantations helping to protect forests

1998

• ITTO moving to tree plantations?
• Ghana: new book on the forest sector
• APRIL and UPM-Kymmene move into China
• Indonesia: students break up meeting to promote transmigration and oil palm plantations in the Mentawai islands
• Canada: birds of a feather in certification process
• Venezuela: the struggle against Smurfit’s plantations
• Brazil: response to article published in 'Aracruz News'
• Forests, plantations and the multilateral banks
• Can expansion of plantations be a solution to combat Global Warming?
• Glyphosate in tree plantations is harmless: true or false?
• The need to raise awareness on the true character of tree plantations
• Argentina: investors’ paradise for forestry projects
• The two faces of the Brazilian policy on forests
• Venezuela: forests menaced . . . plantations promoted
• Indonesia: APRIL the troublemaker
• Contribution to the debate on carbon sinks
• NGO Forest Working Group: Every Tree a Good Tree?
• Are tree monocultures a solution to global warming?
• Forest-related quotes from UNFCCC and the Kyoto Protocol
• Thailand: the strong muscle of the pulp industry
• Indonesia: conflict over oil palm plantations
• Vietnam: forestry model in crisis
• Eucalyptus and pines in the Bolivian Andes
• Brazil: "We want orchards, not eucalyptus plantations"
• Venezuela: increasing conflict with Jefferson Smurfit
• Growing concern over plantations in Australia
• International discourse and on-the-ground reality
• Sawit Watch: an Indonesian network against oil palm plantations
• Vietnam: good old incentives for plantations
• The "Mexican version" of pulpwood plantations
• Comments on the IPF's proposals for action on tree plantations
• Special Bulletin on Plantations
• Plantations campaign meeting in Uruguay
• Message from Bratislava to Kyoto on tree plantations
• Forest Policy: Letter to the World Bank
• Indonesia: local people burn oil palm plantation company's base camp
• Uruguay: anti-pulpwood plantation movement on the rise
• Paper Forests
• Chile: native forests cleared for plantations
• "Pulping the South" published in Spanish
• Oil palm plantations in Sarawak: promotion and resistance
• Chile: community opposes pulp mill project

1997

• Aracruz: trade union requests information
• South Africa: "social benefits" of industrial tree plantations
• Vietnam: a "paper tiger" in South East Asia?
• Hawaii: Resisting pulpwood plantations
• South Africa: more pulp industry development
• Article on tree plantations for South Africa
• Forestry model in Uruguay under siege
• The pulp and paper industry faces problems in the Amazon
• Clonal tree monocultures and genetic engineering in New Zealand
• Hawaii: Eucalyptus plantations arriving
• Oil palm scheme in Siberut, Indonesia
• Mexico: the beginning of the plantations' invasion
• Brazil: Tupinikim and Guarani indigenous peoples vs Aracruz Cellulose

• Contemporary processes of largescale land acquisition by investors. Case studies from sub-Saharan Africa. By Laura German, George Schoneveld and Esther Mwangi - CIFOR, 2011

• Revista Eletrônica da Associação dos Geógrafos Brasileiros – , V.1, nº 14, Ano 8, Novembro 2011 - A formação do complexo
  celulose-papel. Contribuições correspondentes ao “I Simpósio sobre a formação do complexo celulose-papel em Mato Grosso do Sul: limites e perspectivas”, realizado na UFMS – Campus de Três Lagoas, no período de 30 de junho a 2 de julho de 2011. Only avalable in portuguese

• Red Sugar Green Deserts - Latinamerican report on monocultures and violations of the human rights to adequate food and housing, to water, to land and to territory.
  Maria Silvia Emanuelli (HIC-AL) Jennie Jonsén (FIAN Sweden and SAL) Sofía Monsalve Suárez (FIAN International) –Compilers- Sweden, December 2009. Also available in Spanish
  

• Perempuan dalam Perkebunan Kelapa Sawit Sebuah Kritik dalam Analisis Ekologi Politik Feminis - Oleh: Khalisah Khalid Only available in Bahasa

• International Declaration: Stop the expansion of monoculture tree plantations! - International Day Against Monoculture Tree Plantations - 21 September 2009 - Also available in Spanish, Portuguese and French

• Meeting of the Latin American Network against Monoculture Tree Plantations (RECOMA) - 31 July – 2 August 2009 – Uruguay

• FSC greenwashing monoculture tree plantations Evidence provided by the Brazilian Pulp and Paper Industry itself

• Declaration by the Latin American Network against Monoculture Tree Plantations (RECOMA) - 1 August 2009 - Villa Serrana, Uruguay

Los nefastos efectos del monocultivo en América Latina. Las plantaciones no son bosques - Nº 61 de la revista Biodiversidad. Julio 2009 (pdf 13 MB) Only available in Spanish and Portuguese

• Forest Movement Europe : Statement on Tree Plantations - June 2009

• Les Camerounais exploités des palmeraies de Bolloré Social - En grève, les ouvriers dénoncent des conditions de travail et de vie indignes. Fanny Pigeaud, mars 2008, © Libération (only in French)

• H2O para Celulose X Água para todas as línguas - O conflito ambiental no entorno da Aracruz Celulose S/A - Espírito Santo - Daniela Meirelles y Marcelo Calazans, 2006 (only available in portuguese)

• 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

• September 21st: International Day against Monoculture Tree Plantations
  WRM Press Release - September 2006

• Veracel Pulp Mill, Brazil: The Impact of Industrial Tree Plantations on Land Rights and Livehoods - by Chris Lang, February 2006

• Pago de servicios ambientales a las plantaciones de monocultivos de árboles
  presentación realizada por Grupo de Estudio en Bosques de la FECON y COECOCEIBA-AT CR [tamaño del archivo 11.57 Mb]

• International Day against Monoculture Tree Plantations
  by the Latin American Network against Tree Monocultures
  21 September 2005 (also available in Spanish and Portuguese)

• ¡Una plantación no es un bosque! Video clip [2.2 Mb]
  Native Forest Network - Defensores del Bosque Chileno

• Plantations Are Not Forests - Tiempo, Climate Newswatch
  by Ricardo Carrere, October 2004

• Important Differences between Timber Plantations and Forests
  (With reference to South Africa) by Wally Menne

• Politics, Plantations and Participation
  by Chris Lang

• Who is Jaakko Pöyry? - The company behind the report
  CBC report - November 2003

• Paraquat: Time to go! You can make the difference
  by Arjunan Ramasamy, Malaysia, April 2002, from Berne Declaration

• Los árboles neoliberales
  por Carmelo Ruiz Marrero - publicado en Biodiversidad en America Latina

• Distinguishing Characteristics of Forests and Plantations
  by Timberwatch - South Africa

• Tree Trouble - A Compilation of Testimonies on the Negative Impact of Large-scale Monoculture Tree Plantations prepared for the sixth Conference of the Parties of the Framework Convention on Climate Change
  by Friends of the Earth International in cooperation with the WRM and FERN.

• "The Perfect Neoliberal Tree": Genetic Engineering, Free Trade, and Industrial Forestry in the Global South"
  by Jason Ford - GeneWatch - May 2001

• Planting Problems: Trees, Carbon, Money, People and Power
  Workshop organized by WRM and Friends of the Earth International, New York - 4 February 2000

• The Dyson Effect: Carbon "Offset" Forestry and the Privatisation of the Atmosphere  
  by Larry Lohmann - The Corner House

• Industrial Tree Plantations as seen from the North and from the South 
  by Ricardo Carrere

• Globalization of the Pulp and Paper Industry  
  by Chris Lang

• Industrial tree plantations: a growing problem
  by Ricardo Carrere

• The dangers of monoculture tree plantations
  by Ricardo Carrere

• Montevideo Declaration - A call for action to defend forests and people against large-scale tree monocrops
  Montevideo, June 1998

• Social aspects of plantations development: the rights and welfare of plantations workers Joint statement by the WRM and the IUF to the Intergovernmental Panel on Forests at its third session in Geneva, 9-20 September 1996.

LINKS

Pulp & Paper Corporations web sites

Aracruz celulose certification

Movimento Alerta Contra o Deserto Verde - Brazil
http://www.desertoverde.org (in Portuguese and English)

Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra - Brazil
http://www.mst.org.br/mst/

Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides
http://www.pesticide.org/

Timberwatch - South Africa
http://www.timberwatch.org.za/

Public Information Network / Forests & Timber Industry
http://www.endgame.org/

IUF- International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers' Associations
http://www.iuf.org.uk/en/

Pesticide Action Network (PAN)
http://www.pan-international.org/