World Rainforest Movement

2008

• Indonesia: Call for Action against certification of Riau Andalan Pulp and Paper’s timber plantations
• Paper Industry & Pine Plantations in the Southern United States

2007

• The paper industry and the "business of climate change"

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

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

• Uruguay: Labour conditions in two FSC certified tree nurseries

• South Africa: Working conditions and the contract labour system in timber plantations
• FSC Certification of Veracel: A turning point or business as usual?
• Australia: Pulping democracy
• New report and website on the pulp industry
• India: A plan for the takeover of forest land by industry
• 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

• South Africa: Commercial timber plantations as “take it or leave it” development option for rural areas
• Indonesia: Common Vision towards a stop to the expansion of pulpwood plantations

• 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

• Brazil: Why landless women are opposed to monoculture eucalyptus plantations
• Uruguay: National Initiative for the Suspension of monoculture tree plantations
• Uruguay: Botnia pulp mill – “Why is EU public money being used?”
• Brazil: The hushed issue of water in Aracruz Celulose business
• Spain: FSC’s certificate to NORFOR or the continuation of a fraud
• Brazil: An overview of monoculture eucalyptus plantations

• Colombia: Irish-Dutch pulp company accused of serious social and environmental crimes

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

2006

• Malaysia: Acacia plantation plan threatens the Belum-Temenggor forest
• Liberia: New Forestry Law raises hopes and doubts
• 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

• Chile: The Ñielol forest – witness to lies on forests and plantations
• South Africa: Impacts of tree plantations on birds
• Ecuador: Action and proposals against monoculture tree plantations
• Chile: The Mapuche peoples' resistance to the plantation invasion
• Indonesia: Expansion of pulpwood plantations including Acacia
• Ecuador: The Huaorani people of Yasuni Park are attacked by timber and oil groups
• 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
• Laos: ADB's eucalyptus plantations increase poverty
• Burma: Selling timber, buying instability, poverty and destruction

2005

• Australia: Nippon Paper in south eastern Australia
• Glyphosate herbicide, the poison from the skies
• Australia: Health in Tasmania gravely affected by pesticide use in tree monocultures
• Chile: The impacts of monoculture tree plantations on Mapuche medicine
• Indonesia: The health impacts of living near Indah Kiat's pulp and paper mills
• Australia: Nippon paper to go green in Tasmania and elsewhere?
• Argentina: Pine trees advance on the forests of Misiones
• Australia: Gunns plans massive new pulp mill in Tasmania
• Uruguay-Argentina: A huge demonstration against pulp mills
• South Africa: Timber plantations and the Graskop community

2004

• Special Bulletin on the impacts of pulp production
• Brazil: A categorical demonstration against the green desert and in favour of life
• Swaziland: Timber Plantations Impacting on People and Nature
• Uganda: The plague Has Come to Eucalyptus Plantations
• Brazil: Highway is blocked against expansion of eucalyptus plantations
• Swaziland: Timber plantations at the expense of Swazi people
• Australia: Strong allegation against destructive monoculture tree farms

2003

• Australia: A testimony of the loss of forests to Eucalyptus plantations and much more
• India: Local villagers rallied against polluter paper mill
• South Africa: Renewed call for a moratorium on timber plantations
• Uruguay-Argentina: Joint struggle against a pulp-mill
• Uganda: Deforestation, corruption and the false solution of plantations
• Kenya: A simple wasp adds a further problem to Eucalyptus
• Aotearoa/New Zealand: Spraying chemicals on people to protect tree monocrops
• Swaziland: Paper mill pollutes river and people
• Thailand: Eucalyptus, encroachment, deforestation and pollution linked to pulp and paper company
• South Africa: Timber industry and not medicinal plant gatherers behind forest loss
• Brazil: Social and environmental disaster caused by paper mill
• Brazil: Stora Enso and Aracruz plan the world's biggest pulp mill
• South Africa: Tree plantations render corporation profits but fire, damages and death for the people
• Indonesia: Reopening of Indorayon pulp mill encounters strong local opposition
• Indonesia: Report on paper industry's abuses on human rights
• Vietnam: Construction of Kontum pulp and paper mill suspended
• Argentina: The "forests of silence" or the pine plantations at the Yungas
• Chile: Environmental organisation questions FSC standards for plantations

2002

• What is the Future of FSC Certification in South Africa?
• Ghana: "Promissory" reforestation plans end up in unemployment
• Chile: Police at the service of a forestry company murder a young Mapuche
• Australia: Tasmanian farms which fed people replaced by farms which feed woodchip mills
• South Africa: Nearing one million hectares of FSC certified plantations
• Thailand: FSC should revoke Forest Industry Organisation certificate
• Uruguay: What is FSC certifying?
• Japan: Sick from monoculture tree plantations
• Costa Rica: Japanese dollars to promote monoculture tree plantations
• USA: Losing forests to pine plantations
• Brazil: While the people are roused to indignation, Aracruz celebrates
• Australia: Tree plantations grabbing thriving forests
• Argentina: The plantation business, are we neo-liberal or are we not?
• Indonesia: Gender impacts of commercial tree plantations
• Laos: Villagers aware of the threat of industrial tree plantations
• Playing God with trees for money making
• Aotearoa/New Zealand: Carter Holt Harvey the worst transnational corporation
• Samoa: Eucalyptus vaccine for logging virus?
• Brazil: Aracruz Celulose is now facing problems in two states
• Argentina: A forestry company invades Guarani community lands in Misiones
• The Pulp Invasion: The international pulp and paper industry in the Mekong Region
• Chile: Invasion of Mapuche territory by tree plantation companies
• Brazil: Local peoples defend biodiversity in Espirito Santo 
• Chile: Forests burnt to substitute them by monoculture tree plantations
• Chile: Poverty and wealth generated by plantation forestry companies
• 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
• Vietnam: Massive plantations ahead
• Uruguay: Will IDB-funded private port include a pulp mill?
• Brazil: Stopped in Espirito Santo, Aracruz wants to plant eucalyptus in Rio de Janeiro

2001

• Chile: Tree plantations and pulp production generate poverty and destitution
• Brazil: Eucalyptus plantations banned in Espirito Santo!
• Laos: Freedom of information, industrial tree plantations and the ADB
• Solomon Islands: The alternative to large scale operations
• Brazil: the rights of Aracruz and the rights of the people
• Philippines: Planting trees and terror
• South Africa: Where impact of plantations on water is accepted as fact
• USA: Where plantations are clearly not forests
• Brazil: Challenging Aracruz Celulose's power
• Japan: Paper industry involved in genetic engineering of eucalyptus
• Indonesia: Paper production threatens communities and forests in Sumatra
• Mexico: Forestry Plan prepared by Finns
• Ecuador: Eucalyptus plantations in the Province of Esmeraldas
• Chile: Repression or solution to the Mapuche-forestry company confrontation?
• Brazil: Political confrontation in Espirito Santo over eucalyptus plantations
• Brazil: The option between family-based agriculture and giant Aracruz Celulose
• Malaysia: Good news from Iban community but no news about Bruno Manser’s disappearance in Sarawak
• Congo, R.: Shell's eucalyptus plantations now provide even fewer jobs
• Chile: Tree monocultures threaten unique forest type
• Argentina: Monoculture tree plantations impact on grassland bird populations
• China: Exporting deforestation and promoting tree monocultures
• Kenya: Pollution and deforestation caused by Pan African Paper Mills
• Indonesia: Pulp and paper industry menace in South Kalimantan
• Asian Development Bank subsidising deforestation in Laos
• Colombia: "Tailor-made" legislation for Smurfit

2000

• Chile: The debate about tree plantations heats up
• Vietnam: Road-building threatens Phong Nha Nature Reserve
• Indonesia: The pulp and paper sector's unsustainable growth
• Films on forests and plantations receive award
• Wine production threatened by pulp mill project
• Malaysia: Campaign against plantation and pulp mill project in Sabah
• Laos: subsidies for Swedish profits in the forestry sector
• Aotearoa/New Zealand: Opposition to genetically engineered trees
• True forests for Chile
• Brazil. The short memory of Veracel and the power of Aracruz
• Costa Rica: The dangers of tree monoculture "forests"
• Nicaragua: the adoption of the "Chilean plantation model"
• Tree plantations: a false alternative to deforestation in Cameroon
• Fiji: A coup d'etat sparked off by a mahogany plantation
• Hawaii: Are eucalyptus the only possible crop in Hamakua?
• Whose trees? Vietnam's five million hectare "reforestation" programme
• UPM-Kymmene and APRIL: The Chinese-Indonesian connection
• Argentina: Forest loss and plantations in two provinces
• Australia: Plantations, plantations and still more plantations...
• Pulping the South . . . of the USA
• Brazil: The marriage of Stora Enso and Aracruz
• Indonesia: A new victim related to Indorayon
• Thailand: Massive eucalyptus plantations planned
• Hawaii: Actions against eucalyptus expansion
• Thailand: Sino-Thai eucalyptus project facing opposition
• Venezuela: increasing difficulties for Smurfit
• WorldWatch Institute's new publication on the paper industry

1999

• Networking in action: Australia-Uruguay
• Aracruz: the naked emperor
• South Africa: what are the true costs of woodlots?
• Tree plantations generate unemployment
• Brazil: FSC certification of Aracruz suspended
• Thailand: eucalyptus and Jiang Zemin's coming lesson
• Hawaii: tree plantations threat is back
• Chile: the Mapuche conflict persists
• India: have Indian foresters learned nothing?
• South Africa: The Big Lie
• 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
• Malaysia: the sad role of the academic sector
• South Africa: Industrial timber plantations - asset and liability
• Will the FSC certify Aracruz Celulose’s plantations?
• Venezuela: resistance to Smurfit continues
• Privatizing plantations in South Africa
• Venezuela: Smurfit's changing strategy
• Venezuela: sign-on letter to President on Smurfit
• Brazil: The power of Aracruz Celulose
• Indonesia: Indorayon's future in question
• Norwegian, Canadian and Korean capitals get together in global paper business
• Venezuela: Smurfit forced to halt deforestation
• Chinese paper industry in Myanmar

1998

• Scandinavian groups monitor their home-based companies abroad
• ITTO moving to tree plantations?
• Brazil: response to article published in 'Aracruz News'
• Venezuela: the struggle against Smurfit’s plantations
• Thailand: the pulp industry tries to strike back
• APRIL and UPM-Kymmene move into China
• Indonesia: violent confrontations related to Indorayon
• Indonesia: APRIL the troublemaker
• Argentina: investors’ paradise for forestry projects
• Growing concern over plantations in Australia
• Venezuela: increasing conflict with Jefferson Smurfit
• Brazil: "We want orchards, not eucalyptus plantations"
• Vietnam: forestry model in crisis
• Thailand: the strong muscle of the pulp industry
• Colombia: monoculture tree plantations promoted in the Andes
• Aracruz: some polite suggestions from a forester
• The "Mexican version" of pulpwood plantations
• Vietnam: good old incentives for plantations
• The struggle against Indorayon in Indonesia
• South Africa: the ways of the powerful pulp industry
• Brazil: the paradigmatic case of Aracruz
• Uruguay: anti-pulpwood plantation movement on the rise
• A dictatorship-type action gives Aracruz a spurious victory
• Brazil: Tension and uncertainty in Espirito Santo
• Chile: community opposes pulp mill project
• Japanese "green" tours
• Tupinikim and Guarani lands: Imminent decission
• Alliance of UPM-Kimmene-APRIL under siege
• "A fortune for the people" of Sarawak?

1997

• Good news from Hawaii
• Vietnam: a "paper tiger" in South East Asia?
• South Africa: "social benefits" of industrial tree plantations
• Indigenous Assembly of Tupinikim and Guarani
• Hawaii: Resisting pulpwood plantations
• Indonesia: UPM-Kymmene and APRIL destroy rainforest
• Tupinikim/Guarani: a reply from Aracruz
• Assembly of the Tupinikim and Guarani
• Aracruz: Tupinikim and Guarani demands close to a decision.
• South Africa: more pulp industry development
• Indonesia: PT TEL’s plan mounts protests
• A shady bussiness in East Timor
• Hawaii: Eucalyptus plantations arriving
• The pulp and paper industry faces problems in the Amazon
• Malaysians in South Africa, South Africans in Brazil
• Brazil: the Tupinikim/Guarani struggle continues
• Forestry model in Uruguay under siege
• Mexico: the beginning of the plantations' invasion
• Indonesian forests under threat
• Brazil: Tupinikim and Guarani indigenous peoples vs Aracruz Cellulose

WRM Bulletin Nº 83 - June 2004 (complete version)
The production of pulp and paper has long been associated with deforestation and environmental pollution. More recently, it has been the driving force behind the spread of fast-growth tree monocultures to feed ever increasing paper and cardboard consumption. Given that trees grow faster in tropical and subtropical countries –where land, water and labour are cheap and where environmental protection is less stringent than in the North- the industry has also begun to shift pulp production to the South.

• Voices in the green desert - By Silvia Ribeiro. Seeding, July 2006

• APP, APRIL and the End of the Rainforest in Sumatra's Riau Province
  Results of ROBIN WOOD research
  Jens Wieting, revised version, July 2004

• La invasión de las plantaciones forestales en Chile. Efectos de la actividad forestal en la población indígena mapuche
  por José Araya Cornejo - Observatorio Latinoamericano de Conflictos Ambientales - Abril de 2003

• Politics, Plantations and Participation
  by Chris Lang

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

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

• Timber plantations in Indonesia approaching the predicaments of a modern utopia  
  by Nils Bubandt

•  Eucalyptus, Neoliberalism and NAFTA in Southeastern Mexico
  ACERCA, June 1999

• Datos de la "versión mexicana" de la estrategia global de la industria maderera-papelera internacional bajo el TLCAN 
  (only in Spanish) by Alejandro Villamar

• The environmental and social effects of corporate environmentalism in the Brazilian market pulp industry
  by Ricardo Carrere 

• Globalization of the Pulp and Paper Industry
  by Chris Lang

• Los bosques nativos del sur de Chile y el pueblo mapuche 
  (only in Spanish) by Rodrigo Catalán Labarías - Ruperto Ramos Antiqueo

• Pulping the South: the expansion of commercial tree plantations
  by Ricardo Carrere and Larry Lohmann

• The problem is plantations
  by Kumrab Phanthong & Dave Patterson - June 2-6 1996, Thailand

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

• The Plantation Effect. An Ecoforestry Review of the Environmental Effects of Exotic Monoculture Tree Plantations in Aotearoa/New Zealand
  by Grant Rosoman (M. Appl. Sci.) - August 1994
  Greenpeace New Zealand, with support from Canterbury Branch Maruia Society.