Rising Deforestation in Amazon Undermines Brazil's Environmental Policies
According to Jack Chang of McClatchy Newspapers, "As deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rain forest declined over the past three years, the country's leaders crowed that they'd found the recipe for stopping the destruction of the world's most diverse ecosystem."
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/021208EC.shtml
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ACTION ALERT UPDATE
PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY!
Global Ecological Emergency: Brazil Must Succeed in Keeping Soybeans Out of Amazon Rainforest
Rainforest Portal a project of Ecological Internet http://www.rainforestportal.org/
February 12, 2008
TAKE ACTION
Only soy products that do not directly or indirectly destroy ancient rainforests, or intensify climate change and other problems inherent with large-scale industrial monocultures, will be tolerated in international markets
http://www.rainforestportal.org/alerts/send.asp?id=brazil_agrofuel
The greatest emerging threat to Amazon rainforests and communities is industrial soy plantations. Huge mechanized, soy monocultures destroy tropical ecosystems, accelerate climate change and cause human rights abuses primarily to produce agrofuel and livestock feed. The soya industry wipes out biodiversity, destroys soil fertility, pollutes freshwater and displaces communities. Soybean production expands the agricultural frontier not only through fire and deforestation to clear ancient rainforests, but more importantly by pushing cattle ranches and displacing forest peoples further into natural rainforest ecosystems.
With rising soy and other agricultural commodity prices, there has been a marked increase in fires and Amazonian deforestation to clear new agricultural lands from primary rainforests. In reaction Brazil has again announced increased agricultural deforestation enforcement. Amazon rainforest sustainability critically depends upon new soybean production being kept out of ancient primary rainforest ecosystems. Let's continue the commitment of Ecological Internet's Earth Action Network to strongly speak ecological truth to intransigent power.
TAKE ACTION NOW: http://www.rainforestportal.org/alerts/send.asp?id=brazil_agrofuel
DISCUSS ALERT: http://www.rainforestportal.org/issues/2008/02/global_ecological_emergency_br.asp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=deforestation
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=rain+forest
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Amazon
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=soybeans
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/021208EC.shtml
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ACTION ALERT UPDATE
PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY!
Global Ecological Emergency: Brazil Must Succeed in Keeping Soybeans Out of Amazon Rainforest
Rainforest Portal a project of Ecological Internet http://www.rainforestportal.org/
February 12, 2008
TAKE ACTION
Only soy products that do not directly or indirectly destroy ancient rainforests, or intensify climate change and other problems inherent with large-scale industrial monocultures, will be tolerated in international markets
http://www.rainforestportal.org/alerts/send.asp?id=brazil_agrofuel
The greatest emerging threat to Amazon rainforests and communities is industrial soy plantations. Huge mechanized, soy monocultures destroy tropical ecosystems, accelerate climate change and cause human rights abuses primarily to produce agrofuel and livestock feed. The soya industry wipes out biodiversity, destroys soil fertility, pollutes freshwater and displaces communities. Soybean production expands the agricultural frontier not only through fire and deforestation to clear ancient rainforests, but more importantly by pushing cattle ranches and displacing forest peoples further into natural rainforest ecosystems.
With rising soy and other agricultural commodity prices, there has been a marked increase in fires and Amazonian deforestation to clear new agricultural lands from primary rainforests. In reaction Brazil has again announced increased agricultural deforestation enforcement. Amazon rainforest sustainability critically depends upon new soybean production being kept out of ancient primary rainforest ecosystems. Let's continue the commitment of Ecological Internet's Earth Action Network to strongly speak ecological truth to intransigent power.
TAKE ACTION NOW: http://www.rainforestportal.org/alerts/send.asp?id=brazil_agrofuel
DISCUSS ALERT: http://www.rainforestportal.org/issues/2008/02/global_ecological_emergency_br.asp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=deforestation
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=rain+forest
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Amazon
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=soybeans
rudkla - 13. Feb, 09:28
