Geasphere has released a great new video documenting the environmental and social impacts of industrial tree plantations in South Africa. Timber plantations consume 30 times as much water each day as the population of South Africa. Thousands and thousands of people have been evicted to make way for Mondi and Sappi’s monocultures.
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“Pulping the Future”: New video by Geasphere about industrial tree plantations in South Africa
Posted: 17 January 2012 in FSC, Mondi, Sappi, South Africa0
More problems with FSC-certified plantations: this time it’s Altri Florestal in Portugal
Posted: 11 May 2011 in FSC, PortugalPress release from Quercus in Portugal. Why does FSC keep allowing this sort of operation to be certified?
Armed security force of Fibria (Aracruz) kills local villager in Bahia
Posted: 25 March 2010 in Aracruz, Brazil, Fibria, FSCA statement about the tragic death of Henrique Souza Pereira in Fibria’s eucalyptus plantations from Sócio-Environmental Fórum of the Extreme South of Bahia and the Alert against the Green Desert Network (March 23, 2010). Armed security force of Fibria (Aracruz) kills local villager in Bahia With this statement, we express our enormous outrage about the [...]
FSC greenwashing Brazil’s monoculture tree plantations: Part 1
Posted: 11 August 2009 in Brazil, FSCWorld Rainforest Movement’s website currently has a great image of FSC’s greenwashing of industrial tree plantations on the front page (click on the image below to go to WRM’s website):
Certification of monoculture tree plantations – open letter to FSC members
Posted: 24 October 2008 in FSC, FSC Plantations Review“Plantations are monocultures, created from seemingly endless rows of identical trees. They suck the water out of nearby streams and ponds and lower the water table, leaving little or no water for people living near the plantations. They deplete soils, pollute the environment with agrotoxics and eradicate biodiverse local ecosystems. Activists in Brazil call them [...]
The Secret Life of Paper
Posted: 29 August 2008 in Carbon, FSC, Paper consumption, Recycled paper, VeracelInform recently produced “The Secret Life of Paper”. The video promises to answer the questions, “How is paper production related to forest destruction and global warming?” and “Why is recycling and buying recycled paper important?”
Federal court rules that Veracel must uproot its trees
Posted: 5 August 2008 in Aracruz, Brazil, FSC, Stora Enso, VeracelA Brazilian Federal Court ruled in June 2008 that Veracel must uproot 96,000 hectares of eucalyptus plantations and replant the land with native trees. Veracel was also fined US$12.5 million for deforesting areas of the Atlantic Forest with bulldozers and tractors during its first years of operation.
Statement from WRM, 19 March 2008: Yesterday we were notified by the Forest Stewardship Council certifying body SGS (Société Générale de Surveillance) that they have awarded an FSC certificate to Veracel’s eucalyptus plantations in Brazil. What they did not announce in the e-mail was that together with that certificate they were also giving the FSC [...]
Subject: FSC in Laos Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 09:52:45 +0100 From: Chris Lang To: Richard Donovan (Rainforest Alliance/SmartWood) CC: smartwood@….id, FSC-Watch, Ricardo Carrere (WRM)
Earlier this week I was involved in launching a new website: FSC-watch.org. The website documents the problems with the FSC system and hopes to generate an open discussion of these problems. Perhaps not surprisingly, it’s generated a steady flow of emails. Most controversial seems to be the reference to the letter sent to FSC and [...]
