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RELEASE: Planetary Ecological Emergency Declared
Posted by Water Conservation Blog on April 13th, 2010
Human pressures on Earth Systems nine life-support systems have reached a scale where people power revolutionary action may be necessary and warranted to stop abrupt global environmental collapse
From Earth's Newsdesk and New Earth Rising, projects of Ecological Internet (EI)
Contact: Dr. Glen Barry, President, Ecological Internet glenbarry@ecologicalinternet.org
Ecological Internet (EI) today declares a planetary ecological emergency [search]. On the basis of overwhelming new ecological science indicating Earth is past the tipping point and key global ecosystems and life-support systems are failing EI calls for an immediate and escalating peoples power Earth Revolution on behalf of Earth, all her life, and the human family. A recent highly significant scientific paper entitled Planetary Boundaries: A Safe Operating Space for Humanity[1] highlights the numerous means by which the Earth Systems life-support systems are failing. The natural right of all species to take all necessary actions to protect themselves, their habitat and do what is necessary to avoid ecocide is thus activated. This is not a drill.
The human family faces the imminent collapse of the biosphere the thin layer of life organized into ecosystems, upon an otherwise lifeless planet that makes Earth habitable. Marshes and rivers and forests and fish are far more ...
ALERT! Resistance Growing to Ecologically Devastating Chinese Mining Invasion of Madang, Papua New Guinea
Posted by Water Conservation Blog on April 1st, 2010
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Chinese government owned China Metallurgical Construction (MCC) corporation's efforts to establish the massively destructive Ramu Nickel mine in Madang Province [search], Papua New Guinea the largest investment in metal exploration and mining by the Chinese outside of China is in serious jeopardy. Local landowners are successfully initiating court cases and protests to demand mine tailings not be dumped into the sea poisoning fish stocks and causing extreme ecological destruction or the mine be stopped. The entire project has been mismanaged, marked by shoddy construction; and disregard for local rights, life, and marine and rainforest ecology. Chinese mining investment in Madang against local wishes can only be described as an invasion of sovereign peoples, and will be resisted at all costs.
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Comments Off on ALERT! Resistance Growing to Ecologically Devastating Chinese Mining Invasion of Madang, Papua New GuineaFB ALERT & RELEASE: Protest Greenpeace and Rainforest Action Networks Censoring of Facebook Criticism of Their Support for Primary Forest Logging
Posted by Water Conservation Blog on March 22nd, 2010
By Dr. Glen Barry, Ecological Internet
Earth Meanders come from Earth's Newsdesk
Genuine and growing concern with their ongoing, publicly undefended support for Forest Stewardship Council certified primary forest logging destroying an area two times the size of Texas deleted, blocked and reported to Facebook as terms of use violations
Greenpeace US and International, as well as Rainforest Action Network, are censoring comments of concern regarding their support for sustainable forest management of old forests including primary rainforests [search] on Facebook and their blogs. Ecological Internet has been at the vanguard of working to protect and restore primary and old growth forests [search] globally by ending their industrial logging and other developments. Unfortunately this has required campaigning to confront Greenpeace[1] and Rainforest Action Network[2] two of the strongest supporters of continued primary forest logging.
As Greenpeace condemns censorship by Nestle[3] of a YouTube video showing their use of oil palm at the expense of orangutans, and RAN blasts Facebook censorship of its use of tar sands financier RBC Banks logo, both groups are systematically removing criticism of their support for first time industrial primary forest logging from their facebook pages and blogs. To who are these groups accountable, asks ...
Posted in Uncategorized Comments Off on FB ALERT & RELEASE: Protest Greenpeace and Rainforest Action Networks Censoring of Facebook Criticism of Their Support for Primary Forest LoggingALERT! Let Rainforest Action Network Know Global Ecological Sustainability Depends Upon Ending Old Forest Logging
Posted by Water Conservation Blog on March 13th, 2010
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Rainforest Action Network [search] is a key supporter of failed Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) [search] efforts to sustainably log tens of millions of hectares of primary and old-growth forests for lawn furniture, toilet paper and other throw-away consumer items. As RAN celebrates its 25th anniversary, let them know old forests will never be fully protected as long as they and others unquestioningly support certified yet ecologically unsustainable first-time industrial primary rainforest logging. Demand RAN vigorously defend their support for first-time primary rainforest logging over an area two times as large as Texas, or resign from FSC immediately. Encourage RAN to spend the next 25 years working to protect and expand old forests to maintain a habitable Earth.
Posted in Uncategorized Comments Off on ALERT! Let Rainforest Action Network Know Global Ecological Sustainability Depends Upon Ending Old Forest LoggingEARTH MEANDERS: The Rainforest Movement Is Dead Long Live the Old Forest Revolution
Posted by Water Conservation Blog on February 21st, 2010
By Dr. Glen Barry, Ecological Internet
Earth Meanders come from Earth's Newsdesk
Old forests including tropical rainforests [search] are the ultimate expression of life, evolution and ecology. Here untold co-evolved species and genetic diversity exist and interact with each other and their environment to provide ecosystem services water, nutrient and energy cycling required for a habitable Earth. All intact terrestrial, aquatic and marine ecosystems are important, yet rainforests are disproportionately so, given their tremendous species numbers and carbon stores. Few rainforest activists fully understand their ecological importance to continued being, or they would work only for full old forest protection and restoration.
When primary rainforests are lost, it is inevitable that local ecological and social conditions deteriorate, regional weather and species distributions deviate, and the global biosphere and its ability to maintain conditions for life are weakened. Rarely if ever do viable ecosystems remain to provide the same amount of ecological and development benefits as the intact standing old forests that were destroyed for the profit of the national and global elite. Virtually no one benefits from rainforest logging other than small numbers of loggers and green logging apologists who falsely say it can be done well.
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Long Live the Old Forest RevolutionRELEASE: Global Campaign to Protect and Restore Old Forests Gaining Traction
Posted by Water Conservation Blog on February 9th, 2010
Campaigns to end industrial primary rainforest logging in Papua New Guinea and Madagascar based upon ecological science, and meant to end corruption and ecological harm
By Earth's Newsdesk, a project of Ecological Internet (EI)
CONTACT: Dr. Glen Barry, glenbarry@ecologicalinternet.org
Ecological Internets (EI) ongoing campaigns in Madagascar [1] and Papua New Guinea [2] (PNG) to end primary forest logging [search] (please continue to take action below), is part of EIs global networks campaign to globally protect and restore old forests. Ecological science reveals forest and other terrestrial ecosystem destruction to be a primary cause of climate change, biodiversity loss, water and soil degradation, and social disintegration. Yet forest policy-makers, including major environmental groups, continue to assert sustainable forest management and FSC certified logging of primary and old-growth forest logging is possible and desirable. They are wrong, as ecologically intact old forests are vital components of Earths biosphere and are the optimal land cover to absorb and hold carbon long-term, while maintaining biodiversity and operable ecosystems, and the Earth System.
The term old forests is used to encompass primary unlogged forests, late successional natural regrowth, and planted mixed-species forests regaining old-growth characteristics. Forests logged industrially for the first time are permanently ecologically damaged in ...
Posted in Uncategorized Comments Off on RELEASE: Global Campaign to Protect and Restore Old Forests Gaining TractionAction Alert: PAPUA NEW GUINEA: Logging Violence and Corruption Flare in Ramu, Madangs Mighty Rainforests
Posted by Water Conservation Blog on February 6th, 2010
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Local landowner initiated court case has shut down logging for two months. The PNG Forest Authority's review of the granting of the right to log to notorious Rimbunan Hijau [search] of Malaysia in Ramu River valley expected soon. Industry and corrupt government officials pulling out all stops to re-grant permit to this violent and corrupt criminal-enterprise. Massive cash payments and brutal violence to intimidate communities resisting logging is rife. Yet local protest to logging continues to intensify in Madang [search], as do calls to end all industrial primary rainforest logging in PNG.
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Donate to Ramu/Sogeram Landowners Resisting RH & primary rainforest logging
Posted in Uncategorized Comments Off on Action Alert: PAPUA NEW GUINEA: Logging Violence and Corruption Flare in Ramu, Madangs Mighty RainforestsALERT! Protest Madagascar’s Legalization of Rosewood Log Export from Protected National Parks
Posted by Water Conservation Blog on January 27th, 2010
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Delmas shipping, a subsidiary of French shipping giant CMA-CGM, is being pressured by the transitional Madagascar government to ship hundreds of containers of illegally logged ancient rainforest logs from Madagascar to China anytime soon. Post-coup illegal log and wildlife trade continue to threaten Madagacar's biodiversity rich rainforest remnants, ecological sustainability and future potential for national advancement.
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Posted in Uncategorized Comments Off on ALERT! Protest Madagascar’s Legalization of Rosewood Log Export from Protected National ParksEARTH MEANDERS: Ode to Madang
Posted by Water Conservation Blog on January 19th, 2010
By Dr. Glen Barry, Ecological Internet
Earth Meanders come from Earth's Newsdesk
Yet another paradise lost?
Prime Minister Michael Somare of Papua New Guinea is ruling as a Mugabe like thug bent upon becoming a tin-pot dictator. Once a great man that led his country to independence, Mr. Somare is now using his Grand Chief status for corrupt personal, family and tribal gains illegally and immorally allocating huge swathes of his great nations forest and marine resources without landowners prior and informed consent. On the bidding of Somares increasingly despotic and erratic leadership, Papua New Guineas (PNG) natural assets are being sold off to invading Asian business interests destroying rainforest, ocean, water and land as well as the resource and ecosystem rich nations future development potential. Will one man big man Sana or not single-handedly destroy Earths third largest remaining contiguous old rainforest expanses for personal gain?
Nowhere is this more evident than in Madang Province, PNG, which contains some of Earths last remaining mostly intact tropical and marine ecosystems in the world. The Jewel of the South Pacific includes large ancient rainforest tracts, huge tuna and other fisheries, and barely explored mineral deposits; as well as beautiful, ...
EARTH MEANDERS: Resisting Global Ecological Change
Posted by Water Conservation Blog on January 5th, 2010
By Dr. Glen Barry, Ecological Internet
Earth Meanders come from Earth's Newsdesk
Shared survival requires powering down, going back to the land, and ecological resistance.
The human family faces imminent and (Copenhagen would suggest) inevitable collapse of the biosphere the thin layer of life upon an otherwise lifeless planet that makes Earth habitable. Marshes and rivers and forests and fish are far more than resources they and all natural ecosystems are a necessity for humanitys existence upon Earth. A few centuries of historically unprecedented explosion in human numbers and surging, albeit inequitable, consumption and resultant resource use, ecosystem destruction and pollution; is needlessly destroying being for all living things. Revolutionary action such as ending coal use, reforming industrial agriculture and protecting and restoring old forests and other natural ecosystems, is a requirement for the continuation of shared human being.
Earth is threatened by far more than a changing atmosphere causing climate change. Cumulative ecosystem destruction not only in climate, but also water, forests, oceans, farmland, soils and toxics -- in the name of progress and development -- threatens each of us, our families and communities, as well as the Earth System in total and all her creatures. Any chance of ...