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Negative impacts of monoculture tree plantations on women – three new WRM studies

Posted: 13 March 2009 in Brazil, Gender, Nigeria, Papua New Guinea
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7 March 2009
World Rainforest Movement
Friends of the Earth International

PRESS RELEASE

Negative impacts of monoculture tree plantations on women
Three new case studies on three continents

7 March 2009 – Three new case studies on the impacts of monoculture tree plantations on women in Nigeria, Papua New Guinea and Brazil will be released on 8 March, International Women’s Day.
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Say goodbye to the forests – Here comes Oji Paper

Posted: 5 October 2006 in Australia, Brazil, China, Japan, Laos, New Zealand, Oji Paper, Papua New Guinea, Thailand, Vietnam
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By Chris Lang. Published in Watershed, June 2006.

Oji Paper, one of the world’s largest pulp and paper companies, is moving into the Mekong Region. Oji Paper has established large-scale industrial tree plantation projects in Laos, Thailand and Vietnam. Here and elsewhere in the world the results are deforestation and destroyed livelihoods as the company replaces villagers’ forest and common land with its monocultures.

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