Celebrated on September 21, the International Day of Struggle Against Monoculture Tree Plantations was established to raise awareness about the struggles of communities in the Global South against the expansion of industrial tree plantations, including eucalyptus, pine, acacia, rubber and also, oil palm monocultures.
Bulletin articles
Women from communities in Mozambique who are resisting the expansion of the pulp company Portucel and Brazilian community leaders who have been fighting for decades against the industry giant Suzano exchange experiences. The women share their impressions of the experience in an interview.
Coercion and threats against communities have become commonplace in relation to this project which covers an area of more than 102,000 hectares in the Republic of Congo. In light of this situation, an urgent call is being made to the World Bank’s Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) and the economic initiative, Canopy Trust: Do not finance this project!
The Mbya Guaraní community of Puente Quemado II is defending its territory from local logging company owners and from the multinational corporation, Arauco, one of the world's leading producers of wood pulp.
A group of Turiwara People reclaimed one of their traditional villages with a single goal in mind: to advance demarcation of their ancestral territory invaded by Agropalma, a company acquired by the Daabon Group.
From Gorontalo to the Merauke region, the pattern followed by ‘energy transition’ projects is the same: the sacrifice of land and conflict with communities. So-called ‘green energy’ relies on monocultures that are destroying vast tracts of forest. All this solely to benefit an economic elite who profit from the ‘climate’ discourse.
Eucalyptus monoculture plantations continue to encroach on territories in various parts of the world, resulting in a series of impacts and violations. Land grabbing, fires, degraded soils, polluted waters and great loss of diversity, both cultural and biological, continue to be denounced by the communities resisting this industry. Against the backdrop of ongoing resistance, the recommend article tells the story of how the small community of Veiga do Lila, in Valpaços, Portugal, organized itself and drove out the pulp company Soporcel in 1989.
Forest-dependent Peoples in many countries are facing the destruction of their territories in the name of 'clean energy' and the 'energy transition'. These Peoples also continue to face devastation caused by the production of today's main source of energy: fossil fuels. This reality shows that 'clean energy' and the 'energy transition' only exist on paper.
An overview of the links between oil and gas extraction in the Niger Delta and deforestation and major oil spills that have occurred over recent decades in one of Africa's leading oil-producing regions. Their impact on a region of immeasurable environmental and cultural wealth has led many communities in Nigeria to fight against oil giants such as Shell.
What is being promoted globally as ‘clean energy’ is revealing expanding frontiers of mineral extraction shaped by conflict and cross-border tensions. In the Mekong and Salween basins, mining activities are destroying forests and polluting rivers and watersheds, particularly in Myanmar, one of the world’s most important exporters of heavy ‘rare earth’ minerals.
In a climate of repression, the Ecuadorian government is racing against the clock to begin construction on the largest hydropower dam in the country. This project could devastate dozens of Shuar communities and submerge a vast area of ancestral territory in the heart of the Ecuadorian Amazon.
Decades of industrial energy production have destroyed vast areas of forest in Southeast Asia. The ‘energy transition’ trend is triggering a new wave of activities that lead to more deforestation in the region. Forest conservation programs, meanwhile, put the blame for deforestation on forest-dependent communities.