No, of course it can’t.
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South Africa: Mondi and environmental racism
27 AprMondi continues to benefit from the gains it made during South Africa’s apartheid regime.
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Pulp Inc. The corporate power of the pulp and paper industry
26 AprA new occasional series in the WRM Bulletin, profiling a series of actors in the pulp and paper industry.
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Creating poverty in Laos: The Asian Development Bank and industrial tree plantations
25 AprThe ADB’s involvement in tree plantations in Laos has increased poverty, replaced villagers’ land with monocultures and destroyed livelihoods.
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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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Laos: Indian and Japanese pulp giants move in
25 MarAssisted by the ADB, Japanese and Indian pulp corporations are taking over thousands of hectares of villagers’ forests, commons and farmlands in Laos.
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Laos: ADB’s eucalyptus plantations increase poverty
28 FebIn a December 2005 report, the ADB’s Operations Evaluations Department confirmed that the ADB’s industrial tree plantations project has increased poverty. Yet only one month after the OED published its report the Bank announced another tree plantations project in Laos.
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Brazil: Quilombolas protest against Aracruz Cellulose
27 FebIn November 2005, hundreds of quilombolas marched through São Mateus in protest against the pulp company Aracruz.
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Veracel pulp mill, Brazil: The impact of industrial tree plantations on land rights and livelihoods
21 FebThe European Investment Bank has given two loans to the Aracruz-Stora Enso joint venture Veracel pulp mill in Brazil. The Bank ignored the impacts on employment, local people and their environment.
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Brazil: Public subsidies, private gain – EIB and the Veracel pulp mill
9 FebPresentation at the launch of the report: The European Investment Bank in the South. In whose interest? by Jaroslava Colajacomo, published by CRBM, CEE Bankwatch Network, Friends of the Earth International and WEED. 8 February 2006, Brussels.
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Indonesia: Deutsche Bank pulls out of UFS pulp project
24 JanAustria’s Raiffeisen Zentralbank and Andritz should follow Deutsche Bank’s example and pull out of all involvement with UFS’s socially and environmentally destructive pulp plans.
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Uganda: Face Foundation, carbon conflict and FSC certification
24 DecSince 1994, the FACE Foundation has been planting trees in Uganda’s Mount Elgon national park, aiming to compensate for carbon emissions in the Netherlands. Despite major land disputes, the project remains certified as well managed by the Forest Stewardship Council.
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South Africa: Plantations – Green gold or green deserts?
23 DecResearch by John Blessing Karumbidza of the University of KwaZulu-Natal reveals the impacts that industrial tree plantations have on rural communities in South Africa.
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Indonesia: The insatiable appetite of the pulp industry
22 DecNot satisfied with destroying vast areas of forests on Sumatra, the pulp industry in Indonesia is expanding to Kalimantan.
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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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South Africa: Sappi Saiccor to expand its polluting pulp mill?
29 NovI attended Sappi’s November public meeting about the proposed expansion of its Saiccor mill. It was a sham.
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Brazil: Worked to death by Aracruz
28 NovA recent report by Alacri De’Nadai, Winfridus Overbeek and Luiz Alberto Soares documents that instead of providing jobs, Aracruz destroys work, livelihoods and health.
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Brazil: Aracruz – Sustainability or business as usual?
28 OctIn May 2005, Indigenous People cleared eucalyptus plantations and marked out more than 11,000 hectares of their land as part of their thirty year struggle to reclaim their land from Brazil’s pulp giant Aracruz Celulose. Yet UK-based consulting firm SustainAbility claims that Aracruz has a “long-standing commitment to sustainability”.
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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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Indonesia: The health impacts of living near Indah Kiat’s pulp and paper mills
27 AugPollution from Indah Kiat’s massive pulp mills has enormous impacts on the health of people living near to the mill.
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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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Australia: Nippon Paper to green in Tasmania (and elsewhere)?
12 JulTell Nippon Paper what you think about its raw material purchasing policy – just don’t expect too much.
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