Archive for April 16th, 2012
EARTH MEANDERS: The Great Rainforest Heist
Posted by Water Conservation Blog on April 16th, 2012
How environmental groups gone bad greenwash logging Earths last primary old forests
Essay by Dr. Glen Barry, Ecological Internet
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The worlds pre-eminent environmental organizations, widely perceived as the leading advocates for rainforests and old growth, have for decades been actively promoting primary forest logging [search]. Groups like Greenpeace, Rainforest Action Network (RAN), The Nature Conservancy, Conservation International, World Wide Fund for Nature/World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and the Environmental Defense Fund actively promote industrially logging Earths last old forests. Through their support of the existing Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), and/or planned compromised Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD), they are at the forefront of destroying ancient forests for disposable consumer items claiming it is sustainable forest management and carbon forestry.
Rainforest movement corruption is rampant as these big bureaucratic, corporatist NGOs conspire to log Earth's last primary rainforests and other old growth forests. Collectively the NGO Old Forest Sell-Outs are greenwashing FSCs destruction of over 300,000,000 acres of old forests, destroying an area of primary rainforests and other old forests the size of South Africa (two times the size of Texas)! FSC and its members have built a massive market for continued business as usual ...