|   30 .09. 2006   |   Rights and Resources Initiative

Forest plantations” highlighted in the September 2006 edition of arborvitae” the IUCN/WWF Forest Conservation Newsletter.

Including:

  • Forest Plantations: the good” the bad and the ugly. Stewart Maginnis” IUCN” and Duncan Pollard” WWF

  • Soy moratorium in Brazil. Brazil's soy industry agrees a two-year moratorium on forest clearing in the Amazon.

  • Pulp fiction: the low-fact financing of pulp mills. Christopher Barr” CIFOR.

  • Promoting smallholder plantations in Ghana. Victor Kwame Agyeman” Forestry Research Institute of Ghana.

  • Plantationsfor people? Can large-scale plantations be developed in ways thatpromote livelihoods and respect human rights? Marcus Colchester” ForestPeoples Programme.

  • Community reforestation for watershed protection in Mexico. Citlali Cortés Montaño” WWF Mexico.

  • Managingforest plantations for ecosystem goods and services. Jürgen Bauhus andJoachim Schmerbeck” Institute of Silviculture at Freiburg University.

  • Supporting smallholder plantations in Vietnam. Sander van den Ende” WWF Greater Mekong Programme.

  • Subsidiesfor industrial plantations: turning controversy into opportunity. AndyWhite” Rights and Resources Group” Gary Bull” University of BritishColombia” and Stewart Maginnis of IUCN.

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