World Rainforest Movement Bulletin, Issue #40, November 2000

One of the most important sources of rainforest activism and information has long been the World Rainforest Movement or WRM. Based in Uruguay, the WRM's work can be found at http://www.wrm.org.uy

 

Table of Contents of WRM Bulletin Issue #40

OUR VIEWPOINT: - Those who did not "work it out" in The Hague

* LOCAL STRUGGLES AND NEWS

AFRICA

- Gabon: The new Forestry Law and transnational companies
- Kenya: Local peoples' land rights ignored
- Nigeria: Shell's choice between profits and principles
- Tanzania: Impasse on commercial shrimp farming at Rufiji Delta mangroves

ASIA

- India: Mining and plantations put National Park at risk
- Laos: Subsidies for Swedish profits in the forestry sector
- Malaysia: Campaign against plantation and pulp mill project in Sabah
- Malaysia: Where is Bruno Manser?
- Thailand: A diversity-based community forest management system

CENTRAL AMERICA

- Guatemala: Community forest concession initiative at Peten questioned

SOUTH AMERICA

- Argentina: A shady carbon sink project
- Brazil: Aracruz caught red handed destroying native forests
- Chile: Wine production threatened by pulp mill project  
- Weyerhaeuser's president promotes plantations in Guyana

OCEANIA

- Australia: Woodchipping old growth forests for "renewable energy"
- Aotearoa/New Zealand: Logging company's dirty tricks revealed

* GENERAL

- Concerns over the revision of the World Bank's Indigenous Peoples policy
- Films on forests and plantations receive award