September 21: international day for the forests, against plantations
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global highlights - plantations
Friends of the Earth International is opposed to the conversion of forests and other ecosystems into large-scale monoculture plantations, and calls for a halt to the resulting displacement of indigenous peoples and environmental destruction. We campaign to reduce global consumption of the products these plantations support (timber, paper and oil) and work with local people to defend their land rights.
“Health
is a very big concern in our place right now we breathe in the
chemicals... I’m pretty sure we are inhaling dangerous substances and
definitely are dying every minute. Some women had babies who developed
asthma when they were just one or two months old. Chemicals are killing
us; we will all die sooner.”
A woman from the Saga community, Papua New Guinea
September 21: international day for the forests, against plantations
Friends of the Earth International and peasant movement La Via Campesina mark the International Day Against Monoculture Tree Plantations.
new stories about tree plantations and women
Three new case studies and a video on the impacts of monoculture tree plantations on women in Nigeria, Papua New Guinea and Brazil were released on Sunday 8 March 2009, in recognition of International Women’s Day.
