ARD's Plus-minus programme travelled to Russian Karelia to inspect the forestry practices of IKEA subsidiary and timber supplier, Swedwood.
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| The Orwellian world of FSC, plantations and 'Motion 18' The FSC General Assembly passes Motion 18 calling for FSC to revisit and complete its Plantation Review |
| Things not improving in Rio Platano, Honduras - more questions for Rainforest Alliance and FSC In practice, right from the onset, RA interventions in the Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve put emphasis not on promoting and strengthening sustainable forest management but on assuring the production | | CIB - FSC certified forests in Congo to be felled for palm oil plantations? Whilst the FSC Secretariat will no doubt continue to struggle vainly with such issues in the face of the overwhelming vested interests of its accredited certifiers, it could at least look closely at its rules concerning transfer of ownership of certified companies, | | FSC responds to departure of FERN; Secretariat still in self-denial FSC's statement justifies its drift towards involvement in forest carbon certification by saying that "FSC's principal role in climate mitigation frameworks would be to ensure that the management, | | FSC's proposed change of rules on plantations "may be hard-to-stomach Grant Rosoman of Greenpeace New Zealand, a former Chair of FSC, has seconded the motion. However, in the Mongabay article, he appears to dissociate himself from the proposed changes to FSC's rules, saying, | | SIFORCO in DR Congo: nice certificates, shame about the arrests, beatings, burning and rapes SIFORCO was issued with Chain of Custody and Controlled Wood certificates by SGS in September and October 2010. But the company's operations have also been the focus of long-running conflicts with local communities and workers. In 2006, | | CIB - FSC's great African embarrassment | | FSC allows continued slaughter of wild baboons in South African plantations By not supporting a moratorium on the on-going trapping and shooting of baboons in FSC-certified timber plantations in South Africa, FSC |
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Anatoly Lebedev ( Vladivostok )
Certificate for the battle against national park
All environmental, scientific and forest communities in Primorye were deeply surprised with delivery of FSC
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Chris Lang (Jakarta)
How FAO helps greenwash the timber
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization has long served as an apologist for the timber industry
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Glen Barry (Green Bay, USA)
Ecological Internet
We tend to be a little different than many organizations in that we do take a deep ecology, or biocentric approach.
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Lafcadio Cortesi (San Francisco)
FSC is not a panacea
In the Pulp and Paper Sector it is quite hard to segregate fiber. In paper there are recipes for ....
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Olesya Lugovaya (Khabarovsk)
TEKHNODREV Far East 2010
April 24, 2010 in Khabarovsk, completed a 4-th international specialized exhibition "TEKHNODREV ...
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