Global: International Day against Monoculture Tree Plantations

In many southern countries, monoculture tree plantations are advancing rapidly, causing serious negative impacts on local communities as well as on the environment. In the year 2004, following an initiative of the Brazilian Network against the Green Desert, an organisation with a long track record of resistance to tree plantations, 21 September - national tree day - was chosen as a significant date to commemorate internationally the struggle against monoculture tree plantations.