This year, I have written three posts on REDD-Monitor about an Australian “businessman” called David Nilsson and his activities in Peru. I suggested that he should receive the award of Australian carbon cowboy of the year, after his interactions with the Matsés Indigenous Peoples.
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REDD-Monitor’s May 2011 round-up: Watching REDD unravel
28 MayA round-up of everything you need to know in the world of REDD this month. Well, almost everything.
By Chris Lang, WRM Bulletin 166, May 2011
Forest destroyer Oji Paper to carry out REDD feasibility study in Laos
29 NovOji Paper has cleared large areas of forest in Laos to make way for its industrial tree plantations. Now the company hopes to get REDD funding for its monocultures.
By Chris Lang, WRM Bulletin 160, November 2010
Monocultures on the March in Southeast Asia
19 SepMonocultures continue to expand in Southeast Asia – as does the resistance to them.
By Chris Lang, WRM Bulletin 158, September 2010
REDD text an insult to Indigenous Peoples
18 DecWhilst the latest Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) text doesn’t have the words “Made in the USA” anywhere on it, it should have.
By Chris Lang, Published in Climate Chronicle No. 5, Transnational Institute’s COP-15 newspaper, 17 December 2009.
REDD, REDD+, REDD++, REDD and bacon, sausage and spam …
14 DecGetting tired of the ever expanding REDD plans? Me too.
By Chris Lang, Published in Climate Chronicle No. 3, Transnational Institute’s COP-15 newspaper, 11 December 2009
Cambodia’s Prey Long forest is “equivalent to life itself” for local communities
18 JunThe largest area of intact lowland evergreen forests in southeast Asia is under threat.
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Cambodia: Indigenous Jarai take out legal case to reclaim their land
28 MarKeat Kolney, a Cambodian businesswoman with very close links to the government, has tricked villagers in Ratanakiri province out of their land. Villagers are fighting back through the courts.
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Laos: Vietnamese companies set up rubber plantations in the south
27 DecVietnamese companies are setting up rubber plantations in the south of Laos, impacting on local people’s livelihoods and destroying forests.
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The expansion of industrial tree plantations in Cambodia and Laos
26 DecThe area of tree plantations in Cambodia and Laos is expanding rapidly, as are the impacts on villagers and their environments.
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West Papua: Biodiversity and freedom
27 MarFor more than 40 years, West Papua has been an occupied country. The scientists exploring West Papua’s extraordinary biodiversity should not forget this.
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New WRM report on industrial tree plantations in Cambodia
26 MarA new WRM report records the impact of two companies’ tree plantations on local communities.
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Cambodia: Plantations and the death of the forests
21 DecThe Cambodian government has handed out hundreds of thousands of hectares for industrial tree plantations. The results have been disastrous for the forests, local people and for workers employed by the plantation companies.
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Laos: Aiding or abetting? Internal resettlement and international aid agencies
27 OctOver the last decade tens of thousands of Indigenous People in Laos have been moved from their remote upland homes. A new report asks whether some aid agencies, including the EU and the ADB, are in effect facilitating human rights violations by supporting this internal resettlement.
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Glyphosate herbicide, the poison from the skies
28 AugAs part of its “war on drugs”, the US continues to finance herbicide spraying of coca crops in Colombia. The impact on production, trade and consumption of drugs is practically nil. The impact on people and the environment in Colombia is devastating.
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Laos: In the cooking pot – Indigenous Katu diet and livelihoods
26 AugA recent study of the Katu by Jutta Krahn documents how their diet and livelihoods are changing.
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Burma: The politics of conservation – Wildlife Conservation Society
13 JulEyes wide shut – the Wilderness Conservation Society is in bed with the murderous Burmese regime.
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Legal and illegal logging in Vietnam
20 MarA new report by Pamela McElwee, “You say illegal, I say legal”, explores the issues behind illegal logging in Vietnam.
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Laos: US war on drugs is leading to increased poverty
25 MayThe US is supporting a drug programme in Laos which is impoverishing thousands of people.
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Vietnam: Government repression of Indigenous Peoples
24 MayThe Vietnamese government responded brutally to peaceful demonstrations by Indigenous Peoples in the Central Highlands of Vietnam in April.
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ADB’s draft forest policy: The politics of participation
1 OctThe ADB likes to talk about “stakeholders”, “participation” and “consultation”, but the Bank’s review of its forest policy demonstrates that these words have no meaning within the Bank.
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Land concessions in Cambodia
1 OctThe Cambodian government has handed out hundreds of thousands of hectares for industrial tree plantations. The results have been disastrous for the forests, local people and for workers employed by the plantation companies.
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Putting profits before people
28 MayA critique of the ADB’s June 2002 draft forest policy: ‘Forests for all and forever’. Sent to ADB President Tadao Chino, by Friends of the Earth International.
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Burma/Thailand/Laos: Colonial forestry – then and now
24 MarThe imprint of colonial forestry in the Mekong Region is still felt today, as states continue to wrest control of forests from local communities.
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Cambodia: Rubber and oil palm plantations impact on local communities
25 JunRubber and oil palm plantations take over large areas of land: land which is crucial to local people’s livelihoods.
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