Welcome to timberwatch.org, our online information resource!

The timberwatch.org site is being established in order to provide access to a wide range of information on topics linked to the production of wood-based industrial raw materials through the establishment of large-scale monoculture tree plantations.

Through this website, we hope to be able to create much needed public awareness of the wide-ranging negative social and ecological impacts that caused by industrial tree plantations, so that communities in southern Africa and elsewhere will be better equipped to be able to protect themselves from the environmental degradation and social disruption that accompanies the large-scale establishment of tree plantations.

The information will be uploaded gradually, with the initial emphasis being on the highly controversial topics around the certification of monoculture tree plantations.

While we are building our pages and uploading reports and other useful resources, you are urged to visit the following websites:

The World Rainforest Movement - www.wrm.org.uy

The Global Forest Coalition (News & Publications) – www.globalforestcoalition.org

FSC–Watch - www.fsc-watch.org

GeaSphere - www.geasphere.co.za

Ecological Internet Forests.org - www.ecologicalinternet.org

And of course our existing website – www.timberwatch.org.za

If you have any relevant information that you feel should be on this site, please submit to Wally Menne at timberwatch@iafrica.com