23 March 2010 | Interviews | Forests and biodiversity
Monoculture Plantations Are Not Forests
Interview with Eduardo Sanchez, from Friends of the Earth Argentina
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There are over 400 thousand hectares planted with tree monoculture plantations in the provinces of Corrientes and Misiones, Argentina. This has to be added to the 120 thousand hectares planted in Entre Rios Province. Together, they concentrate over 85 per cent of the monoculture plantations in the country, which exerts strong pressure on these lands, according to Eduardo Sanchez, member of Friends of the Earth Argentina.
Meanwhile, 70 per cent of the native forests of the South American country have been deforested. At the beginning of the 20th Century there were over 100 million hectares of forests. Now, there are only 30 million. From 250 to 300 thousand hectares of forests are destroyed per year, said Sanchez in an interview with Real World Radio.
The Argentinian activist participated in a workshop called “Cellulose in the Southern Cone: reconfiguration of the sector and impacts on the territories”, organized by Nucleo Friends of the Earth Brazil, in the framework of the 3rd Forum Social Missões carried out from Thursday to Saturday in Santo Angelo municipality, Rio Grande do Sul State.
Photo: Real World Radio.
