FSC-Watch

17 of 17 matches:

• Controversy deepens over Veracel certification (2008-08-26 16:55)
  The controversy over SGS Qualifor's certification of Veracel deepened last week with two-pages of articles in the Brasil de Fato newspaper. The articles (in Portuguese, links below) note the recent co...


• Millions of FSC certified trees to be uprooted as Brazilian court condemns Veracel (2008-07-14 14:23)
  A final blow has been dealt to the credibility of the now 'self-suspended' FSC certifier SGS, by a Brazilian Federal court decision that nearly one hundred thousand hectares of eucalyptus plantation o...


• Veracel: FSC's 'Death Certificate' (2008-03-20 14:29)
  World Rainforest Movement expresses strong criticism of the FSC in its statement reacting to the news that Veracel's monoculture eucalyptus plantations are now FSC certified. WRM notes that Veracel is...


• Veracel certification would be yet another disaster for FSC (2007-09-18 13:46)
  Press release from World Rainforest Movement, 17 September 2007: FSC at a crossroad: Veracel timber certification would be yet another disaster for FSC The wood-pulp producing company Verac...


• Veracel: A test case for the FSC (2007-08-25 10:23)
  This month's WRM Bulletin includes an editorial about FSC's certification of industrial tree plantations and two articles about the assessment of Veracel, which is currently being carried out by SGS. ...


• Armed security force of FSC-certified company kills villager in Brazil (2010-03-25 12:13)
  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. Another tragic death in a...


• Local organisations criticise FSC certification of eucalyptus monocultures in Brazil (2009-07-23 11:57)
  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. The most common response ...


• FSC's Brazil disgrace continues as landless re-occupy certified illegal plantation lands (2009-05-11 12:05)
  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 ce...


• NGOs in a tangle over need for FSC 'reforms' (2008-11-04 14:38)
  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 - b...


• FSC: Stop certifying monoculture tree plantations (2008-09-19 19:05)
  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 pla...


• Controversy deepens over Veracel certification (2008-08-26 16:55)
  The controversy over SGS Qualifor's certification of Veracel deepened last week with two-pages of articles in the Brasil de Fato newspaper. The articles (in Portuguese, links below) note the recent co...


• Millions of FSC certified trees to be uprooted as Brazilian court condemns Veracel (2008-07-14 14:23)
  A final blow has been dealt to the credibility of the now 'self-suspended' FSC certifier SGS, by a Brazilian Federal court decision that nearly one hundred thousand hectares of eucalyptus plantation o...


• Veracel: FSC's 'Death Certificate' (2008-03-20 14:29)
  World Rainforest Movement expresses strong criticism of the FSC in its statement reacting to the news that Veracel's monoculture eucalyptus plantations are now FSC certified. WRM notes that Veracel is...


• Military Police violently evict women protesters from Stora Enso's plantations in Brazil (2008-03-07 20:50)
  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 plantatio...


• Veracel certification would be yet another disaster for FSC (2007-09-18 13:46)
  Press release from World Rainforest Movement, 17 September 2007: FSC at a crossroad: Veracel timber certification would be yet another disaster for FSC The wood-pulp producing company Verac...


• Veracel: A test case for the FSC (2007-08-25 10:23)
  This month's WRM Bulletin includes an editorial about FSC's certification of industrial tree plantations and two articles about the assessment of Veracel, which is currently being carried out by SGS. ...


• Worthy of the FSC logo? Dispossession and misery in Brazil's plantation industry (2007-07-16 16:47)
  We are taking the liberty of reproducing here a powerful personal insight into the proposed FSC certification of Brazilian eucalyptus plantation company, Veracel, which was published in the latest edi...