Welcome to Timberwatch

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.

With this website, we hope to be able to create much needed public awareness of the wide-ranging negative social and ecological impacts that are 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.

Information will be uploaded gradually, with the initial emphasis being on controversial topics around 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 – www.globalforestcoalition.org     FSC–Watch - www.fsc-watch.org   GeaSphere -   www.geasphere.co.za   and of course our original website – www.timberwatch.org.za

If there is information that you feel should be on this site, please submit to timberwatch@iafrica.com

Please visit our links page. Let us know if any are faulty or if there are others that should be included.

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