World Rainforest Movement
Large-scale tree plantations are having grave social and environmental impacts in many countries of the world. While governments and international organizations promote this forestry model, more and more people rise (Read More)
Forests cover about 30 million hectares in Chile while plantations occupy 2,1 million hectares. Chilean forests -with more than 100 native species- are one of the most biodiversity-rich temperate forests (Read More)
Indonesia’s forests occupy about 120 million hectares. Although at least 2-3 million families of indigenous peoples live in or around the forests and many of the 220 million inhabitants of (Read More)
Up to the decade of the ‘50s the Brazilian government provided subsidies for the import of pulp. With the military government, beginning in 1964, a forestry policy was set up (Read More)
Timber plantations have been a part of the South African landscape for more than a century. Colonial settlement brought a wide range of exotic tree species. Not all were successful, (Read More)
The World Bank has been and still is an active and influential promoter of industrial scale tree monocrops using different mechanisms. The first one is providing technical advice for forestry (Read More)
In 1995, the U.N. Commission on Sustainable Development established an Intergovernmental Panel on Forests (IPF) to address a wide range of forest-related issues. The IPF produced a final report (Read More)
Jaakko Poyry is one of the actors involved in creating the conditions for establishing plantations. This consulting company was born in Finland 40 years ago. It grew up together with (Read More)
Individuals and organizations interested in obtaining information on the issue of large-scale tree plantations can access it in the WRM web page: http://www.wrm.org.uy. Additionally, for those who wish more in-depth (Read More)
A call for action to defend forests and people against large-scale tree monocrops- In June 1998, citizens of 14 countries around the world gathered in Montevideo, Uruguay out of urgent (Read More)