"The Green Invasion"
WRM video on the impacts of large scale monoculture tree plantations Also available in Spanish

You can watch the video in English, Spanish or Portuguese

Pulp Mills ¿A future for whom?
A documentary by Grupo Guayubira, on the installation of two pulp mills in Uruguay - Also available in Spanish

Other videos you can watch in this site

Transgenic Trees.
By World Rainforest Movement. December 2007. Also available in Spanish and in Portuguese.

Working conditions and health impacts of industrial tree monocultures
By World Rainforest Movement. February 2008. Also available in Spanish

Mulheres e Eucalipto - Historias de vida e resistência
Impactos da monocultura de eucalipto sobre mulheres indígenas e quilombolas no Espítio Santo - Por Gilsa Barcellos y Simone Ferreira.
Brasil - November 2007. Only available in Portuguese

Swaziland: The myth of sustainable timber plantations
By Wally Menne and Ricardo Carrere - March 2007

“A funny place to store carbon”: UWA-FACE Foundation’s tree planting project in Mount Elgon National Park, Uganda
By Chris Lang and Timothy Byakola - December 2006

Social conflict and environmental disaster: A report on Asia Pulp and Paper’s operations in Sumatra, Indonesia
By Rivani Noor and Rully Syumanda - August 2006

Oil Palm. From Cosmetics to Biodiesel - Colonization Lives On
Selection of articles published in the monthly electronic bulletin of the World Rainforest Movement, addressing the impacts of the oil palm plantations in the forestss. September 2006. Also available in Spanish

Monocultivos de árboles en Ecuador (Only in Spanish)
Por Patricia Granda. A través de tres estudios de caso y de la revisión de la historia de la forestación en el país, el presente documento pretende lograr una visión actualizada y completa sobre la seria amenaza que representan las plantaciones forestales en el Ecuador, hasta ahora ignorada por la mayor parte de la población. Mayo de 2006

A Study of the Social and Economic Impacts of Industrial Tree Plantations in the KwaZulu - Natal Province of South Africa
By John Blessing Karumbidza - December 2005

Creating Poverty in Laos: The Asian Development Bank and Industrial Tree Plantations.
A World Rainforest Movement briefing paper By Chris Lang and Bruce Shoemaker. April 2006.

Greenwash: Critical analysis of FSC certification of industrial tree monocultures in Uruguay
By Ricardo Carrere. The aim of this report is to provide documented information and analysis to all those who are currently struggling against large-scale monoculture tree plantations and must face the additional problem posed by the fact that these same plantations are being certified by the FSC. - March 2006 - Also available in Spanish

The death of the Forest: A Report on Wuzhishan's and Green Rich's Plantation activities in Cambodia
Proponents of industrial tree plantations argue that the plantations are “reforestation”, increasing the area of forest, providing jobs for local people, or reducing pressure on natural forests. This report examines these companies’ operations in Cambodia, the impacts observed to date on the local populations and the environment, and the associated human rights violations.
March 2006

The Economic and Social Context of Monoculture Tree Plantations in Chile: the Case of the Commune of Lumaco, Araucania region
By means of testimonials, documents and figures, the present report sets out the problems faced by that commune of 11,405 inhabitants, where monoculture tree plantations have expanded violently, imposed by a forestry development model instituted during the military dictatorship and still currently in force.
August 2005 - Also available in Spanish

Women, forests and plantations. The gender Dimension
Selection of articles published in the monthly electronic bulletin of the World Rainforest Movement, addressing the gender dimension of the impacts in the forests of plantations. Agust 2005. Also available in French and Spanish

Promises of Jobs and Destruction of Work
The case of Aracruz Celulose in Brazil
Edited by The Network Alert against the Green Desert and the WRM .
By: Alacir De'Nadai, Winfridus Overbeek, Luiz Alberto Soares. May 2005
Also available in Spanish and Portuguese

Carbon Sink Plantations in the Ecuadorian Andes
Impacts of the Dutch FACE-PROFAFOR monoculture tree plantations' project on indigenous and peasant communities
Joint research of Acción Ecológica Ecuador and WRM - May 2005
Also available in Spanish

 

Pulp Mills: From monocultures to Industrial Pollution
The whiteness of a sheet of paper hides obscure stories of enviromental degradation and social dispossession. Those stries are seldom know by consumers living far away from where the raw material -wood- is obteined and from where pulp and paper are produced. April 2005.
Also available in Spanish and Portuguese

Genetically Modified Trees. The Ultimate Threat to Forests. Research commissioned to Chris Lang by World Rainforest Movement and Friends of the Earth International. December 2004. Also available in Spanish and Portuguese

Certifying the Uncertifiable. FSC Certification of Tree Plantations in Thailand and Brazil.
World Rainforest Movement - August 2003. Also available in Portuguese and Spanish

Plantations are not forests.
Selection of articles published in WRM bulletin addressing the issue of the impacts of large scale monoculture tree plantations. August 2003. Also available in Portuguese and Spanish

The Pulp Invasion: The international pulp and paper industry in the Mekong Region, by Chris Lang. This report was produced in 2000-2001 for World Rainforest Movement, looking at the current state of the pulp and paper industry in the Mekong Region: Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam - December 2002 (Out of stock)

 

"The Bitter Fruit of Oil Palm"
WRM's book on the impacts of oil palm plantations August 2001. Also available in Spanish

 

  Briefing on Finnish Consultancy Firm Jaakko Poyry by Larry Lohmann
 

  The World Bank: a major actor
 

  Plantations and the Intergovernmental Forum on Forests (IFF)
 

Tree Plantations: Impacts and Struggles - selection of articles published in the World Rainforest Movement's (WRM) Bulletin on the issue of industrial tree plantations, February 1999.

Pulping the South: industrial tree plantations and the world paper economy. Ricardo Carrere & Larry Lohmann. 1996. World Rainforest Movement & Zed Books Ltd. 1996