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ALERT! More Old Forests, Less Industrial Agriculture, Key to Climate, Food and Water
Posted by Water Conservation Blog on December 16th, 2009
By Ecological Internet's Climate Ark Climate Change Portal
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Securing world food security while maintaining operable forests, global climate, water, ocean and terrestrial ecosystems and human rights, justice and equity is the biggest challenge facing humanity. Water and food are the next bubbles to burst -- expect severe shortages of both in the 2010s. It is long past time to get back to the land through protecting and restoring old forests and organic permaculture farming. Our survival depends upon being with land, collecting water, letting forests age and growing food.
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Comments Off on ALERT! More Old Forests, Less Industrial Agriculture, Key to Climate, Food and WaterALERT! PAPUA NEW GUINEA: Grand Chief “Carbon Cowboy” Off Soon in New Private Jet to Sell Landowners’ Rainforest Carbon
Posted by Water Conservation Blog on December 6th, 2009
By Ecological Internet's Rainforest Portal and ClimateArk
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Sir Michael Somare -- Papua New Guineas (PNG) Prime Minister -- jets soon to Copenhagen pledging to protect the countrys rainforests in exchange for REDD carbon money. Yet back home he has left a long list of shameful and corrupt rainforest/climate policies. As Copenhagen and REDD talks start, Somare pals Rimbunan Hijau of Malaysia continue logging in Ramu, Madang, despite a court order demanding they stop. Corruption, human rights abuses, and ecological devastation have no place in REDD or Papua New Guinea.
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http://www.rainforestportal.org/shared/alerts/send.aspx?id=png_redd_logging
PICTURES OF RIMBUNAN HIJAUS DESTRUCTION IN RAMU, MADANG:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=158287&id=84943913664
Posted in Uncategorized Comments Off on ALERT! PAPUA NEW GUINEA: Grand Chief “Carbon Cowboy” Off Soon in New Private Jet to Sell Landowners’ Rainforest CarbonALERT! No to Copenhagen ‘Carbon Logging’: GOOD REDD Fully Protects and Restores Old Forests as a Global Climatic Imperative
Posted by Water Conservation Blog on November 4th, 2009
By Ecological Internet's Climate Ark Climate Change Portal
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Copenhagen climate talks [search] must not provide Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) carbon market funds for old, natural forest logging, or for conversion of natural or semi-natural forests and other ecosystems to plantations. Ending deforestation and degradation of old and relatively ecologically intact primary and old growth forest ecosystems, and the ecological restoration of late-successional old growth forests, are keystone responses to maintaining the global climatic system. TAKE ACTION!
Posted in Uncategorized Comments Off on ALERT! No to Copenhagen ‘Carbon Logging’: GOOD REDD Fully Protects and Restores Old Forests as a Global Climatic ImperativeALERT! Madagascar’s Protected Rainforest Hardwoods Continue to be Selectively Logged
Posted by Water Conservation Blog on October 27th, 2009
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Loggers and wildlife traders continue to violate Madagascar's biodiversity [search] rich rainforests including protected areas. In March of this year controversy surrounding leasing of agricultural land resulted in a military coup. In the chaos that ensued, armed gangs funded by Chinese traders entered Madagascars Marojejy and Masoala National Parks, two world-renowned World Heritage Sites, and logged rosewood, ebonies, and other valuable hardwoods. NGOs operating in Madagascar report continued armed, open and organized plundering of precious wood from several natural forests, including these parks.
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Posted in Uncategorized Comments Off on ALERT! Madagascar’s Protected Rainforest Hardwoods Continue to be Selectively LoggedNew York City Activists Unfurl 35-foot Banner on High Line to Protest Park’s Use of FSC-Certified Amazon Wood
Posted by Water Conservation Blog on September 25th, 2009
From Earth's Newsdesk, a project of Ecological Internet (EI)
Contact:
Tim Doody: rainforestsny@gmail.com
Simon Counsell: info@fsc-watch.org
Dr. Glen Barry: glenbarry@ecologicalinternet.org
PHOTOS AND VIDEO OF BANNER:
http://RFNY.org
http://www.flickr.com/photos/32461153@N08/
September 24th, New York: This morning, environmental activists unfurled a 35-foot banner blocking the iconic view of 10th Avenue from the High Line park to protest the Amazon wood [search] used in the park for bleachers, benches and decking. The banner read, "High Crime on the High Line! FSC Lies: Amazon Wood Is Not Sustainable [search]!"
Two New York City-based groups, Rainforest Relief and New York Climate Action Group, coordinated the banner action to confront the "First International FSC Friday," an event held on September 25th by the Forest Stewardship Council to promote their certification scheme.
According to Friends of the High Line's website, the tropical hardwood used throughout the High Line was certified by FSC-accredited agencies. The wood, called ipê, originates from primary Amazon forests in Brazil and Peru. Ipê trees are typically 250 to 1,000 years old and grow an average of one or two trees per acre.
Posted in Uncategorized Comments Off on New York City Activists Unfurl 35-foot Banner on High Line to Protest Park’s Use of FSC-Certified Amazon WoodEARTH MEANDERS: Ecological Overshoot: Climate, Inequity and Corruption
Posted by Water Conservation Blog on September 19th, 2009
By Dr. Glen Barry, Ecological Internet
Earth Meanders come from Earth's Newsdesk
A call for reluctant Earth revolutionaries to unite and slay the economic growth machine consuming ecological being.
A disease is ravaging Earth as ever more people, consume ever more, destroying natural ecosystems that are our shared habitat. In a few short centuries the violent, expansionist and deeply ecologically unsustainable Western mindset has become virtually universally accepted. The meaning of life is more, ever more of everything, at the expense of a finite biosphere. The emptiness of such a vacuous worldview is revealed through changing climate, devastating human inequities and an irredeemably corrupt economic system.
More than just a climate crisis, humanity is facing profound over-population and injustice that are spurring dozens of inter-related ecological and social crises. Billions suffer as their basic human needs go unmet, while billions more gorge themselves. Forests, prairies, streams, rivers, estuaries, wetlands, lakes, soil, oceans, air and all the rest are all life's flesh and blood. Humanity, Earth and kindred species have entered the late stage condition of ecological overshoot -- whereby our cumulative demands upon ecosystems exceed their life-giving capacity and cause them to collapse.
We are eating creation. Hardly anyone is thinking or acting ...
Posted in Uncategorized Comments Off on EARTH MEANDERS: Ecological Overshoot: Climate, Inequity and CorruptionALERT! Join Borneo’s Penan Indigenous Peoples in Standing up to Malaysian Rainforest Destruction
Posted by Water Conservation Blog on September 7th, 2009
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Malaysia is the world's leading rainforest destroying nation. Insist Malaysian authorities respect native customary land rights and boundaries of Penan's last remaining ancestral rainforest reserves; halt rainforest destruction in Sarawak for oil palm, pulp plantations and hydro-electric dams; and ensure rainforest destruction and abuse of indigenous rights by Malaysian companies end globally.
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http://www.rainforestportal.org/shared/alerts/send.aspx?id=malaysia_penan_blockade
Posted in Uncategorized Comments Off on ALERT! Join Borneo’s Penan Indigenous Peoples in Standing up to Malaysian Rainforest DestructionALERT! Liberia’s Plans to Resume Industrial Primary Rainforest Logging Already Plagued by Corruption
Posted by Water Conservation Blog on August 18th, 2009
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The fact notorious illegal loggers Samling of Malaysia [search]; who have devastated rainforests globally including those of the Penan, are surreptitiously in contention for Liberian logging [search] contracts illustrates, despite decades of failed reform efforts locally and internationally, that the global industrial tropical timber logging industry remains irredeemably corrupt. There is no evidence first time industrial logging of primary forests is ever ecologically sustainable or reduces poverty. Please call upon Liberian President to pursue development based upon standing rainforests, and reject entirely the resumption of industrial logging. NOTE: After sending this protest you are forwarded to several crucial ongoing alerts, which we ask you to please send as well
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http://www.rainforestportal.org/shared/alerts/send.aspx?id=liberia_logging_resume
Posted in Uncategorized Comments Off on ALERT! Liberia’s Plans to Resume Industrial Primary Rainforest Logging Already Plagued by CorruptionALERT! Tell Greenpeace: Toilet Paper Consumption from Canada’s Ancient Boreal Forests Must End
Posted by Water Conservation Blog on August 10th, 2009
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Greenpeace Canada claims victory as falsely stating clearfelling old forests for paper products is "sustainable" when FSC certified. These photogenic poseurs fail to grasp the ecological necessity of ending consumption of all products made from old forest destruction, and generally reducing consumption of all paper products. Nothing to change as old boreal forests and toxic plantation monocrops will continue to be clearcut to wipe bottoms, albeit falsely certified by various greenwashers including Greenpeace as "well-managed".
Please demand that Greenpeace repudiate the agreement with Kimberly-Clark and not enter into any further negotiations that greenwashes old forest logging. Let Greenpeace know global ecological sustainability -- including climate, water and biodiversity -- depends upon protecting primary forests and restoring others to old growth status.
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Posted in Uncategorized Comments Off on ALERT! Tell Greenpeace: Toilet Paper Consumption from Canada’s Ancient Boreal Forests Must EndRELEASE: Greenpeace Wipes It’s Soft, Virgin Butt with Canada’s Ancient Boreal Forests
Posted by Water Conservation Blog on August 6th, 2009
- Against what ecological science tells us is required for global and regional ecological sustainability, Greenpeace Canada endorses continued clearcut of ancient boreal forests for paper products including toilet paper. Nothing to change as ancient boreal forests continues to be clearcut to wipe bottoms, albeit certified by FSC and Greenpeace as "well-managed".
By Earth's Newsdesk, a project of Ecological Internet (EI)
CONTACT: Dr. Glen Barry, glenbarry@ecologicalinternet.org
Ecological Internet vigorously condemns Greenpeace Canada's greenwash endorsement of continued Canadian ancient boreal forest logging [search] to make throw away paper items, including toilet paper. Yesterday Greenpeace announced a premature end [ark] to its "Kleercut" campaign [search] against Kimberly-Clark Corporation, the maker of Kleenex, Scott and Cottonelle brand paper products, boldly proclaiming "today, ancient forests like the Boreal Forest have won."
Greenpeace's long-standing campaign against "ancient forest crimes" by Kimberly-Clark was suspended on the basis of promises that 40% of its North American tissue fiber will be either recycled or FSC certified by 2011. The company traditionally has used 3 million tones of virgin fibre a year, which will fall to 2.4 million tons if they are successful. This atrociously weak target will legitimize continued destruction of Canada's ancient forest ecosystems for throw away paper products for decades.
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