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cUnha

The price for Europe’s packing paper boom

"For years, #Portugal was a primary source of cellulose in Europe, producing it from vast plantations of #eucalyptus trees. But due to concerns over the fire risk and ecological impact of eucalyptus plantations, the Portuguese government put a halt to their expansion. This decision prompted several European companies to seek alternative locations for large-scale plantations."

news.mongabay.com/video/2025/0

Mongabay Environmental News · The price for Europe’s packing paper boomThe rapid rise of e-commerce and food delivery services has transformed consumption patterns worldwide. In an effort to reduce plastic waste, the European Union introduced policies such as the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation, aimed at a shift from single-use plastics to single-use paper products. While these initiatives aim to address the environmental crisis, they […]
#Mozambique#plantations#forests
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BellingenNSW

Modern-day blackbirding and Australia's food supply chain

"60,000 South Sea Islanders came to Australia as slaves or cheap labour from 1863."

"Now, 123 years after many were forced back to South Sea Islands, Australia's latest Pacific worker scheme is attracting allegations of exploitation, which are being investigated by the Anti-Slavery Commissioner in New South Wales, James Cockayne." >>
abc.net.au/news/2025-01-03/30-
#food #exploitation #work #servitude #PALM #IR #mobility #HumanRights #NSW #Pacific #blackbirding #slavery #plantations #sugar #cotton #SupplyChains #australia

ABC News · Say Our Name exhibition marks 30 years since recognition of South Sea IslandersBy Annie Guest
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DoomsdaysCW

#Florida students are giving up Saturdays to learn #BlackHistory lessons their schools don’t teach

By KATE PAYNE
Updated 12:15 AM EST, December 21, 2024

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — "Buried among Florida’s manicured golf courses and sprawling suburbs are the artifacts of its slave-holding past: the long-lost cemeteries of enslaved people, the statutes of #Confederate soldiers that still stand watch over town squares, the old #plantations turned into modern subdivisions that bear the same name. But many students aren’t learning that kind of Black history in Florida classrooms.

"In an old wooden bungalow in Delray Beach, Charlene Farrington and her staff gather groups of teenagers on Saturday mornings to teach them lessons she worries that public schools won’t provide. They talk about #SouthFlorida’s #Caribbean roots, the state’s dark history of #lynchings, how #segregation still shapes the landscape and how #grassroots #activists mobilized the #CivilRights Movement to upend generations of oppression.

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"When Sulaya Williams’ eldest child started school, she couldn’t find the comprehensive instruction she wanted for him in their area. So in 2016, she launched her own organization to teach Black history in community settings.

"'We wanted to make sure that our children knew our stories, to be able to pass down to their children,' Williams said.

"Williams now has a contract to teach Saturday school at a public #library in Fort Lauderdale, and her 12-year-old daughter Addah Gordon invites her classmates to join her.

"'It feels like I’m really learning my culture. Like I’m learning what my ancestors did,' Addah said. 'And most people don’t know what they did.'"

Read more:
apnews.com/article/florida-bla

#BlackHistoryMatters#KnowledgeIspower#BlackLivesMatter
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BellingenNSW

Drone locates 20 koalas in forest due to be logged next year

"A thermal drone imaging survey has been conducted over a plantation within the Great Koala National Park footprint. 20 koalas were detected over two nights at Tuckers Nob State Forest, which is due to be logged in the New Year."

The so called 'plantations' are more like native forests. Tuckers Nob forest must be included in the great koala national park. Video>>
nbnnews.com.au/2024/12/18/dron
#LoggingImpacts #NSWLogging #BellingenLogging #koalas #SaveTuckersNob #Bellingen #Gleniffer #plantations #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #wildlife #conservation #drones #RadioTelemetry #FCNSW #destruction

NBN NewsDrone locates 20 koalas in forest due to be logged next year - NBN NewsA thermal drone imaging survey has been conducted over a plantation within the Great Koala National
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BellingenNSW

As they are logging and clear-cutting the koala forests around Bellingen

"While local perspectives can be misleading, from a global perspective, clear-cutting and clear-cutting-like interventions are endangering the climate and biodiversity. Allowing trees to age, preserving deadwood, and allowing natural regeneration with adapted game populations would have a positive effect on the climate and help mitigate forest damage. This would be active climate and biodiversity protection and should be promoted politically."

"Politicians have a duty to achieve the climate targets and to impose clear obligations on enterprises."

"Businesses, including the forestry and timber industry, are well-informed about the climate and biodiversity crises and must be held accountable for faulty conduct."

"The containment of environmental crime immediately needs clear laws with effective enforcement. Short-sighted economic activities at the expense of future generations and beyond planetary capacities should be made illegal and punished."

"No more delaying, no more wait-and see, no more blame-shifting, no more beating around the bush—we need ambitious action in the right direction. Compliance with the Paris Climate Agreement is the narrow pathway into a future that might resemble the present. Will and efforts to preserve the climate and biodiversity roughly as we know them must be significantly strengthened. Reliable goals and ways of achieving climate neutrality as quickly as possible are the political order of the day. Forests should be no longer the third largest carbon emitter, but part of the solution that would reduce our current emission by around 15%."

Open Access Book >
Stop Rainforest Deforestation
The Most Urgent Way of Combining Climate and Species Protection
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1
#deforestation #NSWLogging #BellingenLogging #extinction #biodiversity #destruction #pesticides #soil #water #laws #crime #NativeForests #plantations #RemnantVegetation #climate #extractivism

SpringerLinkStop Rainforest DeforestationConsidered as a state, forests are the third-largest emitter of carbon after China and the United States. 80% of biodiversity depends on protecting the forests. Some two-thirds of wildlife populations have already disappeared. Wood use and forest loss constitute...
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BellingenNSW

NSW's native forest logging industry ruled not 'economically viable'.

"The recommendation was made by the NSW Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal (IPART) in its triennial analysis of the government-owned logging company Forestry Corporation of NSW."

"It found Forestry Corporation's native timber operation had been steadily losing money over the past decade, in part due to delivering timber to sawmills for less than the cost of providing it."

"It also noted concerns about logging making bushfires worse and damaging threatened species' habitat."

"The revelation comes the same week that Forestry Corporation released its annual report, which shows it suffered a $29 million loss in its native logging division in the 2022-2023 financial year. Studies have suggested shutting the industry could bring net economic benefits to the economy"
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abc.net.au/news/2024-12-17/nsw
#NativeForests #LoggingIndustry #LoggingImpacts #FCNSW #NSWLogging #BellingenLogging #degradation #biodiversity #harm #ClimateBreakdown #wildlife #koalas #plantations #StopLoggingKoalaHabitat #bushfires #risks #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #destruction

ABC News · Report says NSW government should review 'long-term feasibility' of native logging industryBy Michael Slezak
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BellingenNSW

Australia-wide ban on native-forest logging?

"The Greens have dropped their demand for a climate trigger to be incorporated in the government’s stalled Nature Positive legislation, indicating they are now prepared to pass the bills in return for a Australia-wide ban on native-forest logging alone."

“Closing the legal loopholes that allow large-scale native forest logging and land clearing to go unassessed will have tangible impacts for the protection of critical habitat in Tasmania, NSW, and northern Australia, where deforestation is out of control."
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theguardian.com/australia-news
#loggingIndustry #NSW #ClimateEmergency #BiodiversityCrisis #NaturePositive #NatureNegative #plantations #deforestation #ResourceFrontiers #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #extractivism

The Guardian · Greens drop climate trigger demand in attempt to restart Nature Positive talks with LaborBy Karen Middleton
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Estelle Platini

"As the foundation of modern political systems, the nature/culture divide had profound consequences for the production of a ‘science of man’, distinguishing between men and women, body and mind, civilised and savage, and arguably human and semi-human.
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"Since the first steps of Columbus, the ‘colonial bioprospecting’ has been inventorying plant, mineral and animal species for profit. To it was added an ‘ethnoprospecting’, i.e. a universal census and classification of human species, which are also thought to have ‘different natures’. By becoming ‘as diverse as nature itself’, humanity is broken down into phenotypes rather than geographical origins, and we slide from a descriptive vision to a normative view, predisposed to hierarchy."

Sylvie Laurent in "Capital et race : Histoire d'une hydre moderne"

#SylvieLaurent#raceMaking#eugenism
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BellingenNSW

Fruit and veg from NSW plantations of servitude

"The NSW Anti-slavery Commissioner says there are several thousand absconded PALM workers in Australia, without access to health insurance and formal income. Among them are women with unplanned pregnancies denied antenatal care due to ineligibility for Medicare. A report by the NSW Anti-slavery Commissioner entitled Be Our Guests has identified signs of debt bondage, deceptive recruiting, forced labour and, in extreme cases, servitude, sexual servitude and human trafficking."
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theconversation.com/promoted-a
#Food #IndustrialRelations #plantations #exploitation #NSW #servitude #slavery #Pacific #Australia #RuralNSW #Work #PALM

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BellingenNSW

"Fire-resilient landscapes” and “fire-adapted communities” through biocultural restoration as a fire risk mitigation strategy.

A clear-eyed view on historic harms by settler societies: Settler transition to large-scale agriculture (plantations) transformed ecohydrological conditions and introduced weeds. The neglected land and extractive tourism practices drive increases in fire risks.

"We argue that decolonizing postplantation landscapes through the restoration and reconnection of people to land will not only help prevent future catastrophic fires, but also address social and environmental inequities.The connections of colonialism to contemporary extreme fire regimes are not unique to Hawaiʻi. The dispossession of Indigenous communities worldwide has suppressed cultural burning and altered fire regimes that support the production of food and material culture."
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On the anniversary of the Maui fires, a call for Indigenous land care to mitigate future disasters, D. Nākoa Farrant et al
pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2401
#bushfires #fires #colonialism #SettlerSociety #extractivism #water #plantations #SettlerSocieties #unsustainability #dispossession #IndigenousPeoples #IndigenousKnowledge #BioculturalRestoration #CulturalBurning #restoration

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Adrian Riskin 🇵🇸🍉

Ben Affleck got PBS to cover up the fact that an unnamed-in-the-article ancestor was a slave owner. I wonder if it was Thomas Affleck, whose publication The Cotton Plantation Record and Account Book was a major influence on the use of the pushing system which, through unspeakable violence, allowed cotton planters to rapidly and continually increase the productivity of their slaves.

Thomas Affleck's work figures prominently in Caitlin Rosenthal's breakthrough work Accounting for Slavery, which traces the origin of modern management techniques, including Taylorism, back to methods employed on cotton plantations.

#BenAffleck #ThomasAffleck #Slavery #Cotton #PushingSystem #Plantations #Capitalism #Management #Taylorism #CaitlinRosenthal #AccountingForSlavery

npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/20

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton

search.worldcat.org/title/1090

slate.com/human-interest/2015/

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BellingenNSW

Modern forestry techniques are destroying biodiversity, poisoning communities and compounding the climate crisis

"Perversely, the use of glyphosate and other herbicides is ensured by industrial monoculture plantations around the world. Under the pretext of climate change mitigation schemes, millions of trees are planted. The plantations do provide raw materials for biofuels and act as powerful carbon sinks. But when a natural forest is converted to a plantation, a natural ecosystem is destroyed. Biodiversity is lost and organic matter and nutrient levels are depleted. In a bid to manage reduced soil fertility, forestry planners use artificial fertilizers and herbicides. Each year, 10 million hectares of natural forest are lost to monoculture plantations. The policy is not addressing climate change. It’s compounding it."

"A 2019 study showed that 80 percent of First Nations communities in Canada are located in fire-prone regions that are often isolated. But the imperatives of eco-capitalism and the commodification of nature have long taken precedence over the traditional knowledge of Indigenous communities—to our collective peril."
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canadiandimension.com/articles
#loggingIndustry #LoggingImpacts #FlammableForest #plantations #pesticides #BellingenLogging #GumbaynggirrCountry #RuralNSW #MidNorthCoast #monoculture #SaveTuckersNob #pesticides #bushfires #climate #IndigenousPeoples #ClimateExtremes

canadiandimension.comCanadian forestation policies add fuel to the firesAcross Canada and abroad, the commercial forest industry has created monoculture conifer plantations of lodgepole pine, spruce and Douglas fir. It’s common practice to use glyphosate and brush saws in forests to destroy broadleaf species—such as aspen, birch, cottonwood, willow and alder—which are crucial for biodiversity and sequestering carbon.
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