I invite you to read a document which, if share their content, strong. The objective is to seek to influence international bodies like the FAO to change their definition of forests while strengthening communities opposed to monoculture tree plantations through the opinion of professionals and students
forest monocultures tree plantations are not forests
American Declaration of forestry professionals in February 2008
level in Latin America governments are actively promoting the expansion of monoculture tree plantations on a large scale, despite the serious social and environmental impacts already observed in existing plantations. The promoters of this model claim that plantations are forests which is not true. Plantations are not forests. Unfortunately, many of our colleagues in the forestry support this model and our educational institutions continue to train new generations of forestry professionals to perpetuate and expand this type of forestry model aimed at seeing forests where there are none.
is why we consider it necessary to publicly state not only that monoculture tree plantations are not forests, but these plantations result or have resulted in the destruction of our native forests and other equally valuable ecosystems they replace.
At the regional level, who know most about this issue are local people who suffer directly impacts such as:
- Loss of biodiversity (food, medicine, firewood, housing materials, handicrafts, etc.)
- Alteration of the hydrological cycle, which results the decrease and depletion of sources water, as well as increased flooding and landslides.
- Decrease
food production - soil degradation
- Loss of indigenous and traditional cultures of the original ecosystems dependent
- Conflicts with forestry companies over land tenure in indigenous and traditional communities
- Decrease sources of employment in traditionally agricultural areas
- Expulsion of the rural population
- Deterioration of the landscape in tourism areas
is why forestry professionals who strive for the conservation of forests and recognize the basic rights of peoples live there must stand with those who truly defend the forests, local communities, and oppose the expansion of monoculture plantations.
We note that this process does not start today, but it had its starting point in Porto Alegre during the World Social Forum 2005. There, a group of students and professionals agreed on the need for "other forest-related training with a different way of seeing the world in which forests are not seen simply as a timber, but what they are: ecosystems diverse flora, fauna and forest peoples. "As part of that line of thought, l @ s participants we demonstrate clearly "against the establishment of extensive monocultures and large homogeneous tree plantations.
In this framework, we now appeal to students and forestry professionals to adhere to this declaration and to initiate a process within and outside the study sites, allowing those who enter this profession can do what we think then we were going to do: defend the forests and villages that depend on them. Vladimir
Filho - Student forest - Brazil
Rodrigo Catalán - Forest Engineering - Chile
Diego Alejandro Cardona - Forest Engineering - Colombia
Juan Figuerola - Forest Engineer - Costa Rica
María José López - Forester - Paraguay
Fernando Gonzalez - Forest Engineer - Paraguay
Dhayneé Orbegozo - Student forest - Peru
Ricardo Carrere - Forestry Technician - Uruguay
Catelli Marcos Rocha - Forest Engineering - Brazil
Fernanda Lopes da Fonseca - Forester - Brazil
Luiz Henrique Gomes de Moura - Forest Engineering - Brazil
Latino Fabiola Antezana - Forester - Brazil
Juliana Bavuzo - Forester - Brazil
Edwin Alpizar - Forest Engineer - Costa Rica
Thomas Ferreira - Forest Engineering - Brazil
Acácio Zuniga Leite - Forest Engineering - Brazil
Quirico Jiménez - Forest Engineer - Costa
Rica Pablo Andrade Dias - Student forest - Brazil
Monica Centron - Forester - Paraguay
Sandra Yohanna Sanchez - Forester - Colombia
Edgardo Flores Flores - Forestry Technician-Chile
forest monocultures tree plantations are not forests
American Declaration of forestry professionals in February 2008
level in Latin America governments are actively promoting the expansion of monoculture tree plantations on a large scale, despite the serious social and environmental impacts already observed in existing plantations. The promoters of this model claim that plantations are forests which is not true. Plantations are not forests. Unfortunately, many of our colleagues in the forestry support this model and our educational institutions continue to train new generations of forestry professionals to perpetuate and expand this type of forestry model aimed at seeing forests where there are none.
is why we consider it necessary to publicly state not only that monoculture tree plantations are not forests, but these plantations result or have resulted in the destruction of our native forests and other equally valuable ecosystems they replace.
At the regional level, who know most about this issue are local people who suffer directly impacts such as:
- Loss of biodiversity (food, medicine, firewood, housing materials, handicrafts, etc.)
- Alteration of the hydrological cycle, which results the decrease and depletion of sources water, as well as increased flooding and landslides.
- Decrease
food production - soil degradation
- Loss of indigenous and traditional cultures of the original ecosystems dependent
- Conflicts with forestry companies over land tenure in indigenous and traditional communities
- Decrease sources of employment in traditionally agricultural areas
- Expulsion of the rural population
- Deterioration of the landscape in tourism areas
is why forestry professionals who strive for the conservation of forests and recognize the basic rights of peoples live there must stand with those who truly defend the forests, local communities, and oppose the expansion of monoculture plantations.
We note that this process does not start today, but it had its starting point in Porto Alegre during the World Social Forum 2005. There, a group of students and professionals agreed on the need for "other forest-related training with a different way of seeing the world in which forests are not seen simply as a timber, but what they are: ecosystems diverse flora, fauna and forest peoples. "As part of that line of thought, l @ s participants we demonstrate clearly "against the establishment of extensive monocultures and large homogeneous tree plantations.
In this framework, we now appeal to students and forestry professionals to adhere to this declaration and to initiate a process within and outside the study sites, allowing those who enter this profession can do what we think then we were going to do: defend the forests and villages that depend on them. Vladimir
Filho - Student forest - Brazil
Rodrigo Catalán - Forest Engineering - Chile
Diego Alejandro Cardona - Forest Engineering - Colombia
Juan Figuerola - Forest Engineer - Costa Rica
María José López - Forester - Paraguay
Fernando Gonzalez - Forest Engineer - Paraguay
Dhayneé Orbegozo - Student forest - Peru
Ricardo Carrere - Forestry Technician - Uruguay
Catelli Marcos Rocha - Forest Engineering - Brazil
Fernanda Lopes da Fonseca - Forester - Brazil
Luiz Henrique Gomes de Moura - Forest Engineering - Brazil
Latino Fabiola Antezana - Forester - Brazil
Juliana Bavuzo - Forester - Brazil
Edwin Alpizar - Forest Engineer - Costa Rica
Thomas Ferreira - Forest Engineering - Brazil
Acácio Zuniga Leite - Forest Engineering - Brazil
Quirico Jiménez - Forest Engineer - Costa
Rica Pablo Andrade Dias - Student forest - Brazil
Monica Centron - Forester - Paraguay
Sandra Yohanna Sanchez - Forester - Colombia
Edgardo Flores Flores - Forestry Technician-Chile
professionals linked to forestry either technical forestry engineers or students interested in signing this letter may apply to mail
edgartecfor_2@hotmail.com
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