Stories written by Silvana Silveira

ENVIRONMENT: Uruguay Tries to Solve Its Forestry Puzzle

By Silvana Silveira
"A Uruguayan consumes 40 kilos of paper per year, compared to 400 kilos consumed by someone in Finland. We produce wood pulp to feed foreign consumption," says sociologist María Selva Ortiz, representative of the environmental group Redes-Friends of the Earth Uruguay.
Farm machinery on a Uruguayan eucalyptus plantation - Courtesy of WRM

Uruguay Tries to Solve Its Forestry Puzzle

By Silvana Silveira and - -
Industrial forestry is a solid productive sector in Uruguay, but activists say that its extensive monoculture plantations are harmful to water sources and soils, as well as workers.
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