Tree Plantations:
Impacts and Struggles
World Rainforest Movement

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Contents:

Abouth this book

Tree plantations

The need to raise awareness on the true character of tree plantations.
Plantations are not forests.
The Montevideo Declaration. June 1998.
International discourse and on-the-ground reality.

Tree plantations and climate change

Message from Bratislava to Kyoto on tree plantations.
WRM statement to the Fourth Conference of the Parties of the Climate Change Convention.
Are tree monocultures a solution to global warming?
For and against forest conservation and climate.
Trees, forests and climate in Buenos Aires.
Climate Change Convention: much ado about nothing.
Contribution to the debate on carbon sinks.
Can expansion of plantations be a solution to combat global warming?

Tree plantations and international processes/institutions

Plantations and the Intergovernmental Forum on Forests.
Comments on the IPF's proposals for action on tree plantations.
The World Bank: a major actor.
ITTO moving to tree plantations?
Statement of the World Rainforest Movement for the Intergovernmental Panel on Forests meeting.

Latin America

Integration can aggravate deforestation.
Latin America's forests: the time is ripe for change.

Argentina
Investors’ paradise for forestry projects.

Bolivia
Eucalyptus and pines in the Bolivian Andes.

Brazil
Tupinikim and Guarani indigenous peoples vs Aracruz Cellulose.
The Tupinikim/Guarani struggle continues.
The pulp and paper industry faces problems in the Amazon.
Tupinikim and Guarani: Does the Government respect the law?
Aracruz: Tupinikim and Guarani demands close to a decision.
Tupinikim/Guarani: a reply from Aracruz.
Assembly of the Tupinikim and Guarani.
Indigenous Assembly of Tupinikim and Guarani.
Document of the 1st Indigenous Assembly of the Tupinikim and Guarani.
Tupinikim and Guarani lands: Imminent decission.
Tension and uncertainty in Espirito Santo.
A dictatorship-type action gives Aracruz a spurious victory.
The paradigmatic case of Aracruz.
Aracruz: some polite suggestions from a forester.
"We want orchards, not eucalyptus plantations"
Response to article published in 'Aracruz News'.

Colombia
Monoculture tree plantations promoted in the Andes.

Chile
Community opposes pulp mill project.
Native forests cleared for plantations.
An unsustainable forestry model.

Mexico
The beginning of the plantations' invasion.
The "Mexican version" of pulpwood plantations.

Uruguay
Forestry model in Uruguay under siege.
Anti-pulpwood plantation movement on the rise.

Venezuela
Increasing conflict with Jefferson Smurfit.
Forests menaced...plantations promoted.
The struggle against Smurfit’s plantations.

Africa

Gambia
A different type of forest degradation

Ghana
FAO supports private plantations in Ghana

South Africa
Malaysians in South Africa, South Africans in Brazil
More pulp industry development
"Social benefits" of industrial tree plantations
The ways of the powerful pulp industry

Asia

East Timor
A shady bussiness in East Timor

Indonesia
Indonesian forests under threat
Oil palm scheme in Siberut, Indonesia
PT TEL’s plan mounts protests
UPM-Kymmene and APRIL destroy rainforest
Alliance of UPM-Kymmene-APRIL under siege
SE Asia menaced by renewed fires in Indonesia
Local people burn oil palm plantation company's base camp
Jaakko Poyry: more than mere consultants
A depredatory economic "miracle"
The struggle against Indorayon in Indonesia
Sawit Watch: an Indonesian network against oil palm plantations
Conflict over oil palm plantations
APRIL the troublemaker
Students break up meeting to promote transmigration and oil palm plantations in the Mentawai islands

Malaysia
Sarawak: violence against natives continues
Good news from Sarawak
Call for action on Sarawak
"A fortune for the people" of Sarawak?
Japanese "green" tours
Oil palm plantations in Sarawak: promotion and resistance

Thailand
Two opposite approaches to forest conservation
The strong muscle of the pulp industry
The pulp industry tries to strike back

Vietnam
A "paper tiger" in South East Asia?
Good old incentives for plantations
Forestry model in crisis

Oceania

Australia
Eucalyptus natural forests under threat
Growing concern over plantations in Australia

Hawaii
Eucalyptus plantations arriving
Resisting pulpwood plantations
Good news from Hawaii

New Zealand
Clonal tree monocultures and genetic engineering in New Zealand

 
This publication was made possible with support from HIVOS (The Netherlands) and from the Swedish Society for Nature Conservation (SSNC).