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EI 2010 Year-End Fund-Raiser: Raising the Roof on Global Ecological Sustainability
Posted by Water Conservation Blog on October 11th, 2010
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Comments Off on EI 2010 Year-End Fund-Raiser: Raising the Roof on Global Ecological SustainabilityALERT! Encourage Gunns to Keep Promise to End Tasmanian Native Forest Logging & Urge Australia to End Such Logging Nationwide Now
Posted by Water Conservation Blog on October 6th, 2010
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The announcement by Gunns Ltd. pulp and logging company of Tasmania, Australia [search] that they will discontinue their involvement with primary native forest logging in Tasmania is wonderful progress. Yet Gunns has not immediately done so and logging continues in the Huon Valley. Nor should Gunns have illusions that a paper and pulp mill industry based upon toxic chlorine-bleaching, plantation monocrops [search] and ocean dumping will be acceptable. If Gunns does in fact keep and implement its promise (a big if, given their record), a global precedent has been set that old-growth native forest logging is finished. The new Australia government must follow-up by announcing an end to all old-growth native forest logging, and to promote forest and job restoration areas.
Posted in Uncategorized Comments Off on ALERT! Encourage Gunns to Keep Promise to End Tasmanian Native Forest Logging & Urge Australia to End Such Logging Nationwide NowALERT! Urge Forest Stewardship Council to Stop Greenwashing Industrial Primary Forest Logging
Posted by Water Conservation Blog on September 28th, 2010
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The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) and its members, certifiers and suppliers must commit to ending the certification of primary forest timbers [search], falsely implying it is sustainable to log 500 year old trees for toilet paper, lawn furniture and other consumer items. Please participate in EI's on-going global campaign to end primary forest logging, and to protect and restore old forests, as keystone responses to abrupt climate change, biodiversity loss and global ecosystem collapse. Please take action to ensure FSC stops certifying primary forest logging; even as together we continue to successfully confront rapacious logging companies and their government enablers - 4 major victories in last months alone!
Posted in Uncategorized Comments Off on ALERT! Urge Forest Stewardship Council to Stop Greenwashing Industrial Primary Forest LoggingALERT! Tanzania’s Proposed Serengeti Highway Threatens Greatest Wildlife Migration on Earth
Posted by Water Conservation Blog on September 19th, 2010
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The government of Tanzania has approved a major commercial highway across Serengeti National Park. The northern Serengeti located near the Kenya border is the most remote and pristine area in the Parks entire ecosystem. Serengeti National Park's locally and globally significant ecosystem is driven by migration of wildebeest, elephant and zebra; and will be utterly devastated by the plan, as will be local livelihoods and well-being. There is a growing local and international support network protesting the project, and together we should be able to ensure it never commences.
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Posted in Uncategorized Comments Off on ALERT! Tanzania’s Proposed Serengeti Highway Threatens Greatest Wildlife Migration on EarthRELEASE/VICTORY: Australian Timber Giant Gunns to End Old Growth Logging
Posted by Water Conservation Blog on September 10th, 2010
Shows strength of Tasmanian, Australian and global forest protection movements, yet need firm dates for commitments, and assurances other bad forestry practices will not be embraced. First and foremost, as Gunns pulls out of the Forest Industries Association of Tasmania, these old-growth native forests that were to be industrially cleared must be protected, not sold to others to log certified or otherwise. EIs network contributed mightily to victory.
By Earth's Newsdesk and Forests.org, projects of Ecological Internet (EI)
CONTACT: Dr. Glen Barry, glenbarry@ecologicalinternet.org
(Tasmania, Australia) - In a massive win for the environmental movement, the new head of Tasmanian timber company Gunns Limited [search] has broke ranks with Tasmania's forest industry and confirmed it will pull out of native forest logging altogether. At an industry conference in Melbourne Thursday, Gunns new chief executive Greg L'Estrange announced the company will move away from logging native forests [search] and develop plantation-based products. Further, Gunns revealed it would quit the Forest Industries Association of Tasmania, which was arguing for a continuation of native forest logging in the state.
The promises, if fully implemented, are a huge victory for Tasmania and Australias forest movement, such as the Wilderness Society, as well as a large body of ...
Posted in Uncategorized Comments Off on RELEASE/VICTORY: Australian Timber Giant Gunns to End Old Growth LoggingRELEASE/VICTORY: Vedanta Mine Plan on Sacred Tribal Mountain Halted by Indian Government
Posted by Water Conservation Blog on August 24th, 2010
Vedanta's controversial bauxite mine on the Dongria Kondhs tribal land has been stopped, after four years of protests by local peoples supported by Survival International and a wide range of affinity campaigns, including most recently by EIs Earth Action Network.
By Earth's Newsdesk, a project of Ecological Internet (EI)
CONTACT: Dr. Glen Barry, glenbarry@ecologicalinternet.org
Controversial plans to develop a bauxite mine on sacred tribal land in India [search] have been cancelled by India's environment ministry. The Dongria Kondhs an indigenous tribe who have lived since time immemorial around the mountain Niyamgiri in the Indian state of Orissa demands have been met, and the area will remain wild, lush and sacred. Multi-national company Vedantas existing aluminum refinery in the area had polluted local rivers, damaged crops and disrupted the lives of the local tribe; and will now not be able to expand six-fold. This is a Dongria Kondh victory first and foremost.
The project has been delayed by four years because of the Dongria Kondhs intense opposition locally including the brandishing of bows and arrows as well as from environmental and tribal rights group. Globally, a loosely coordinated campaign sought to persuade multi-national Vedanta's shareholders and financiers to distance themselves from ...
Posted in Uncategorized Comments Off on RELEASE/VICTORY: Vedanta Mine Plan on Sacred Tribal Mountain Halted by Indian GovernmentALERT! Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Sells Out Democracy, Local Peoples and Resources to Red China’s Mining Agency
Posted by Water Conservation Blog on August 12th, 2010
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Sir Michael Somare [search] - PNG's deeply corrupted PM, and once the great founder of this amazing country - is illegally clinging to power and giving away natural resources by gutting environmental law. PNG has Earth's third largest rainforests [search] and important intact fisheries which are being threatened by his efforts to run roughshod over landowners, including those trying to stop the dumping of mine waste into Madang's bays and lagoons. Given his increasingly despotic and unbalanced behavior, it is clearly time for Mr. Somare to resign.
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Posted in Uncategorized Comments Off on ALERT! Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Sells Out Democracy, Local Peoples and Resources to Red China’s Mining AgencyALERT! Save Polands Bialowieza Forest, Europe’s Last Primeval Temperate Forest
Posted by Water Conservation Blog on August 10th, 2010
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Ask the Polish government to stop exploitation of the primeval Bialowieza Forest [search]. Bialowieza Forest is on the verge of ultimate devastation caused by the state foresters and the timber industry that exploit precious Bialowieza Forest to manufacture products like furniture. Lets support local calls for the cut to be reduced immediately, as a step to quickly ending primary forest logging in the area, and make all efforts possible to enlarge Bialowieski National Park to cover the entire area of Bialowieza Forest. EI has been active in campaign for over a decade, and things are getting active again locally as well, so time to renew the call of the Bialowieski Forest.
Posted in Uncategorized Comments Off on ALERT! Save Polands Bialowieza Forest, Europe’s Last Primeval Temperate ForestALERT UPDATE: India’s Dongria Kondh Tribal Way of Life Threatened by British Vedanta Mining Lets Build on Initial Success
Posted by Water Conservation Blog on August 6th, 2010
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Vedanta Resources, a British mining company, is set to destroy the forests, wildlife and way of life of the Dongria Kondh people. A new protest email has been added which is going to Indian government officials in support of local demands. Please take part in this new protest target. Also, our action to date has caused HSBC and WestLB banks to publicly distance themselves from Vedanta and Niyamgiri mining, an early success. This is reflected in the updated 2nd email to send. Please send both! EI is doing this alert in close consultation with local communities through John Seed and Rainforest Information Centre, Australia.
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Posted in Uncategorized Comments Off on ALERT UPDATE: India’s Dongria Kondh Tribal Way of Life Threatened by British Vedanta Mining Lets Build on Initial SuccessRELEASE/VICTORY: Ecuador Sets Major Rainforest and Climate Protection Precedent
Posted by Water Conservation Blog on July 31st, 2010
By Earth's Newsdesk and the Rainforest Portal, projects of Ecological Internet
CONTACT: Dr. Glen Barry, glenbarry@ecologicalinternet.org
It is reported Ecuador will be compensated for leaving oil reserves in Yasuni National Park untouched. This is a major victory for Ecuador, the rainforest movement, and Ecological Internet who was the first to campaign internationally on the issue.
Ecuadors government announced today it has reached a deal with the United Nations Development Program under which donor countries will compensate Quito for leaving oil reserves untouched in a large primary rainforest filled national park. Yasuni National Park [search] covering some 9,820 km2, or about the size of Massachusetts is thought to be one of Earths most biodiversity rich sites and is also home to several nomadic Indian tribes. Yasunis preservation (total protection, not sustainable management or conservation) would spare Earth some 410 million metric tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions that contribute to global warming; while keeping biodiversity, ecosystems and cultures fully intact. The official signing is reported to be held on Tuesday.
Ecological Internets Earth Action Network [1] was the first to campaign internationally on threats to Yasuni from oil exploration, successfully internationalizing the issue. This marvelous rainforest and climate victory is very ...
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