A chance to ask FSC’s Director of Strategic Development some questions
On Wednesday, 26 February 2014, Ian Hanna, FSC International’s Director of Strategic Development, will be interviewed by triplepundit.com.
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FSC’s new plan to launder wood from deforestation
It’s official: the FSC is now setting out to use its grotesque Controlled (sic) Wood Policy in order to ‘launder’ wood from areas experiencing recent deforestation into the FSC certified wood supply chain.
A new film exposing FSC: ‘Sustainable on Paper’
A new film documents the problems with FSC. FSC-Watch will be posting several articles about this over the next few days. Meanwhile, here is FERN’s description of the film in EU Forest Watch, January 2011. Below that is a trailer for the film. UPDATE: The full documentary is available here.
Armed security force of FSC-certified company kills villager in Brazil
Two years ago, a peasant was murdered by guards of the company Vallourec and Mannesman in Brazil. At the time, V&M’s plantations were certified for FSC by SGS-Qualifor.
Local organisations criticise FSC certification of eucalyptus monocultures in Brazil
This article from this month’s World Rainforest Movement bulletin illustrates that the problems with FSC-certification of industrial tree plantations are far from resolved.
FSC’s Brazil disgrace continues as landless re-occupy certified illegal plantation lands
We have received the following from ‘Alert against the Green Desert Network’ in Brazil, reporting on the Landless Rural Workers’ Movement (MST) continuing occupation of part of the illegal (but FSC certified) plantations owened by Veracel. As we previously reported, the Veracel certification has been highly controversial; despite FSC itself finding that the certificate showed “a […]
NGOs in a tangle over need for FSC ‘reforms’
As the FSC General Assembly opened in Cape Town, northern NGOs were falling over themselves to issue statements as to how the FSC should be ‘reformed’ – or to try to claim that it already has been – but the contradictory demands set out by these NGOs are likely to ensure that the FSC will […]
FSC: Stop certifying monoculture tree plantations
This month’s World Rainforest Movement Bulletin focusses on the International Day Against Monoculture Tree Plantations on 21 September. The Bulletin explains why a campaign against industrial tree plantations is important, includes materials for campaigns as well as news and analysis from around the world about struggles against plantations.
The FSC in pictures
It is customary in many organisations to give out-going staff a photo-album showing the person’s accomplishments, for them to cherish in future years. We can’t do that for Heiko Liedeker, who is finally departing as FSC Executive Director, but what we would like to do with this posting is to show some of what has […]
Military Police violently evict women protesters from Stora Enso’s plantations in Brazil
On Tuesday, 4th March 2008, about 900 women from the International Peasant Movement Via Campesina were violently evicted by the Military Police from an area of 2,100 hectares of Stora Enso’s plantations at the Tarumã Farm in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. According to a statement from Via Campesina about 60 women were badly injured […]
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