Forests.org: Tree Plantations Links (XML/RSS)

campaigns for regulation to ensure that only sustainably-sourced biofuels can be sold in the European Union, provides information about the link between biofuels and deforestation and other threats to biodiversity and food supplies.

concerned with oil palm plantation development and deforestation in Indonesia, Malaysia and Papua New Guinea

briefing paper regarding proposals for using biochar for climate change mitigation and the serious concerns about its likely impacts on climate, soil fertility and communities (pdf)

report details how the Burmese military’s nation-wide campaign to plant eight million acres of the Jatropha tree for biodiesel production is resulting in human rights abuses including forced labor, land confiscation, loss of income and food insecurity (pdf)

a critical analysis of proposals to use biochar (agrichar) and bioenergy with carbon capture and storage proposals to reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations and mitigating climate change that depend upon forests (pdf)

examines the potential environmental and economic impacts of the cellulosic ethanol industry in the Southern United States (pdf)

report by Forest Peoples Programme and Sawit Watch about the social and environmental impacts of oil palm plantation expansion in Indonesia (pdf)

a Friends of the Earth investigation into the sustainability claims of Malaysia's palm oil lobby, with a special focus on state of Sarawak (pdf)

a report published by the African Biodiversity Network about the impacts on biofuel production and plans in Africa, with case studies from Benin, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia; looking at deforestation, other ecosystem destruction, land rights and food sovereignty

report by Biofuelwatch about the climate impacts of large-scale biofuel production

introduction to the social and environmental impacts of oil palm plantations from the World Rainforest Movement

a critical analysis of carbon trading and carbon-offsets, in particular of those based on tree monocultures, published by the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation (pdf)

report documents deforestation and degradation of natural forests in a section of Sumatra, Indonesia, and its impacts upon carbon release and climate change (pdf)

Friends of the Earth details how demand for palm oil, a vegetable oil present in many of the goods we buy, is contributing to the destruction of Indonesia's rainforests

a network that supports habitat and resources management for the Orang Rimba (Kubu) in Indonesia, whose habitat has been reduced for conversion of forest for oil palm plantations and transmigration

an index of articles from the World Rainforest Movement regarding problems caused by depending upon plantations for carbon sinks as a solution to climate change

report concludes current and future agrofuel technologies are a key direct and indirect cause of global deforestation, and thus contribute to climate change as well as to loss of livelihoods (pdf)

special report by GRAIN about the impacts of agrofuels from large-scale monocultures, with detailed articles looking at impacts on climate, ecosystems, food production and communities in Africa, Asia and Latin America

enables downloading of pdf file that discusses the status of current and future A/R markets

a coalition that shares a common concern for the ways timber plantations impact on biodiversity, human communities, natural landscapes and ecosystem health - particulary in South Africa

joint report by Corporate Watch and FASE, Brazil, about the disastrous impacts of tree monocultures planted in Brazil under 'sustainable forestry' schemes, accompanied by the use of carbon credits (pdf)