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Amazon Deforestation Rises

rudkla — 2008-09-03T16:11:00Z

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RAN Sells-Out Canadian Boreal Forests

rudkla — 2008-08-28T21:30:00Z

PRESS/SOCIAL MEDIA RELEASE

- Rainforest Action Network greenwashes destruction of half of Ontario, Canada's boreal forests; despite lack of any detail regarding vague promised protections, and without scientific findings that doing so is ecologically sufficient

August 28, 2008 By Earth News, a project of Ecological Internet Dr. Glen Barry, +1 (920) 776-1075

(Earth) -- Rainforest Action Network (RAN) of San Francisco has long been one of America's leading rainforest campaign organizations. Yet in July their campaign to protect Ontario, Canada's boreal forests doomed half this vital global ecological system to industrial destruction. In return, RAN and other proponents received vague promises of protections over a decade from now, but no protected area boundaries or protection plans.

Canada's boreal forests are home to hundreds of sensitive species of animals including polar bears, caribou and wolverines. Boreal forests are some of the world's largest carbon storehouses, with holdings equal to decades of global emissions from fossil fuels, while continually absorbing new emissions. The boreal region is also the world's largest reservoir of clean fresh water.

"Just how much longer do you think environmentalists can strike deals that give up half of large wilderness ecosystems to industrial development for vague promises of protection? Simply, more ecologically attuned folks know no more natural habitats can be lost and expect to survive climate change," explains Ecological Internet's President, Dr. Glen Barry.

Neither RAN, WWF or even Greenpeace realize that there is no longer any acceptable reason to industrially destroy or diminish an intact natural ecosystem -- not if falsely FSC certified, not to briefly alleviate poverty, and not because indigenous people are in favor. The state of the Earth is so grim, and the needs to protect and restore natural ecosystem so large, that only sufficient campaigns seeking to end industrial cutting and burning are worthwhile any longer. The rest is greenwash.

It is unknown if 50 percent protection -- of unknown strength and placement -- will be enough to fully sustain Ontario's biodiversity and ecosystem services. Future protections will likely center on the sparsely populated and largely unthreatened northern boreal, while with its promotion and endorsement of the vague plan, RAN has greenwashed intensified forestry and mining in the already heavily fragmented southern boreal.

"The only meaningful forest protection is to work to keep all ancient primary forests standing, and to meet needs for forest products from secondary forests regenerating into old-growth. There is no chance of achieving global ecological sustainability until ecological destruction ends, what remains is fully protected, and restoration begins," explains Dr. Barry.

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This is the second time in recent history -- the other being in British Columbia, Canada's priceless Great Bear temperate rainforest -- that RAN has been a driving force in continuing industrial loss of the world's most important remaining large, intact forest wildernesses. Greenwashing millions of acres of industrial wilderness destruction in the name of indigenous rights is not doing these people or the environment any favors. Thankfully, RAN now does little tropical rainforest campaigning, so they may be safe. With more victories like this, soon there will be no ancient forests or an operable climate.

RAN's slide from a force for forest good to a force for forest greenwash must not go unchallenged. This is particularly difficult for Ecological Internet, as President Dr. Glen Barry is a RAN rainforest award recipient, and has worked collaboratively with them for decades. Yet RAN's string of blunders -- also including occupying campaign offices of Al Gore to protest oil investments (which Nader also had), possibly swinging the 2000 election -- cannot be forgotten nor forgiven, particularly while ill-informed appeasement continues. RAN has censored those questioning these policies on their blog.

Dr. Barry laments, "You cant present yourselves as cutting edge, selfless and knowledgeable forest protestors and be routinely cutting deals to turn over millions of acres of ancient forests to fatcat loggers and minders. We need to focus on how many ecosystems are necessary to maintain the Earth's habitability, and reaching these levels of protection and restoration, not upon what can be indelicately and easily negotiated.

RAN is called upon to get on board protecting all ancient forests and working to restore mature, old-growth forests; or they, like so much of the mainstream environmental movement, are part of the climate and biodiversity crises. "Giving up on half of Canada's boreal forests for a pocket full is mumbles is not the role of the Rainforest Action Network, members or donors. They have no authority or expertise to be pursuing such deals."

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Dr. Glen Barry is a leading global spokesperson on global forest and climate policy. Ecological Internet provides the world's leading climate and forest web portals at http://www.climateark.org/ and http://forests.org/. Dr. Barry frequently conducts interviews on the latest environmental policy developments and can be reached at: glenbarry@ecologicalinternet.org (note confirmation email response required) and +1 (920) 776-1075.

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Fund Ecuador to Keep Oil Underground and Rainforests Standing for Our Shared Climate

rudkla — 2008-08-21T08:24:00Z

ACTION ALERT UPDATE

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FOREST ALERT! Fund Ecuador to Keep Oil Underground and Rainforests Standing for Our Shared Climate

By Rainforest Portal, http://www.rainforestportal.org/ August 20, 2008

TAKE ACTION It is time for the international community led by Europe to step up and finance large-scale Amazon rainforest preservation to protect the Earth's atmosphere, biodiversity, and life- giving ecosystems; while helping meet needs for national advancement http://www.rainforestportal.org/shared/alerts/send.aspx?id=ecuador_oil_underground

The Western Amazon -- home to some of the most biodiverse and intact rainforest left on Earth, which are critical for driving regional and global ecosystems and climatic patterns necessary for life -- may soon be decimated by oil rigs and pipelines. According to a new study in the open-access journal PLoS ONE, over 180 oil and gas "blocks" areas zoned for exploration and development now cover the Western Amazon, which includes Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and western Brazil. These oil and gas blocks stretch over 688,000 km2 (170 million acres), a vast area nearly the size of Texas.

Yet there is hope, as Ecuador's new forward-thinking government led by President Rafael Correa announced in June 2007 the innovative Yasuní-ITT Initiative which offers to keep Ecuador's largest untapped oilfields unexploited in exchange for financial compensation from the international community. Regional governments, international donors and global citizens must decide whether every last bit of the Earth's wilderness; and intact, large ecosystems, will be sacrificed to delay having to transition now to renewable energy sources, ensuring abrupt run-away climate change in the process. Given their historical strong rhetoric on the need to protect global climate and biodiversity, please ask European aid agencies to lead the effort.

TAKE ACTION NOW: http://www.rainforestportal.org/shared/alerts/send.aspx?id=ecuador_oil_underground

DISCUSS THIS ALERT: http://www.rainforestportal.org/issues/2008/08/alert_fund_ecuador_to_keep_oil.asp

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Canada's Ancient Temperate Rainforest Valleys to Again Fall to Logging

rudkla — 2008-07-29T07:52:00Z

We really need increased participation! Please send and forward! This alert continues 15 years of successful EI activism on the matter.

ACTION ALERT UPDATE

Clayoquot Sound, Canada's Ancient Temperate Rainforest Valleys to Again Fall to Logging

By Forests.org, http://forests.org/ and EcoEarth.Info, http://www.ecoearth.info/

July 28, 2008

TAKE ACTION

These ancient forests must be fully protected and all industrial development ended to preserve biodiversity and ecosystem health, focusing upon employment from standing trees and fully intact ecosystems, and failure to do will lead to a renewed "War of the Woods" and global anti-B.C. markets campaign

http://forests.org/shared/alerts/send.aspx?id=canada_clayoquot_logging

Canada's precious temperate rainforests are again threatened with industrial logging. Clayoquot Sound, which lies along the West coast of British Columbia (B.C.), is a spectacular mosaic of lush coastal rainforests, fjord-like inlets and islands covering 850,000 acres. Such intact coastal temperate rainforests are globally rare, covering only about one-fifth of one percent of the Earths land area, half of which has already been destroyed. They are amongst the most biologically productive temperate ecosystems in the world. Clayoquot Sound is the most magnificent expression of temperate rainforest in North America.

There is no such thing as ecologically sustainable industrial logging or other industrial activities in a fully intact ancient forest ecosystem. Ancient forest logging must end worldwide to solve climate change, protect all biodiversity and achieve global ecological sustainability. Encourage all involved in British Columbia's forest policy to commit themselves fully to developing methods for employment and community advancement based upon standing forests and fully intact ecosystems. Or else promise you support a return to the blockades and protests that halted logging in Clayoquot in 1993, as well as a massive overseas campaign targeting B.C.'s markets. Surely rich Canada can find a way to spare these locally and globally vital ecosystems.

TAKE ACTION NOW: http://forests.org/shared/alerts/send.aspx?id=canada_clayoquot_logging

DISCUSS THIS ALERT: http://forests.org/blog/2008/07/alert-war-of-the-woods-ii-retu.asp

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Lets plant 7 billion trees by the end of 2009!

rudkla — 2008-07-27T05:53:00Z

The billion tree campaign enters a second wave Together, lets plant 7 billion trees by the end of 2009!

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Das Aus für geförderten Strom aus Palmöl: Die Proteste gegen Urwaldrodung für Palmölproduktion...

rudkla — 2008-07-11T09:38:00Z

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/110561

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Ich möchte Sie auf den Artikel im Focus aufmerksam machen:

Tank oder intakte Natur

Um Palmöl-Plantagen zu gewinnen, holzen Großkonzerne täglich bis zu 20 Hektar des Tanoé-Walds ab. Das ist eine ökologische Katastrophe und treibt Anwohner schlimmstenfalls in sklavereiähnliche Verhältnisse.

Weiter unter...
http://www.focus.de/wissen/wissenschaft/artenschutz/tid-11596/palmoel-tank-oder-intakte-natur_aid_327453.html

Am Ende des Artikels können Sie den Artikel bewerten und Kommentare an den Focus senden.

Auf unserer Webseite finden sich auch noch die Protestaktionen zu Unilever und zu Kenia: http://www.regenwald.org

Reinhard Behrend
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Stoppt den Agrarsprit-Wahn der EU!

rudkla — 2008-07-02T15:48:00Z

Die EU will die zwangsweise Beimischung von Ethanol zum Benzin (hergestellt aus Zucker) und Diesel aus Raps, Soja und Palmöl beschließen. Für die Anlage von Zuckerrohr- und Sojafeldern und Palmölplantagen werden Millionen Hektar Regenwald in den Tropen vernichtet. Das Weltklima wird massiv geschädigt.

http://www.regenwald.org/protestaktion.php?id=276

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Brazil's Xingu River Dam to Damn Amazon Rainforests and Peoples

rudkla — 2008-07-01T08:46:00Z

ACTION ALERT UPDATE
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By Rainforest Portal, http://www.rainforestportal.org/ and Water Conserve, http://www.waterconserve.org/ June 30, 2008

The wild and free Xingu River is critical to maintaining intact the Amazon, its peoples and the Earth we share http://www.rainforestportal.org/shared/alerts/send.aspx?id=brazil_xingu

The Brazilian government is planning to build what would be the world's third largest dam on the Xingu River in the Brazilian Amazon. The Xingu River in northeast Brazil is a tributary of the Amazon River. The Belo Monte Dam, meant principally to fuel the expansion of aluminum foundries and other industrial plants in the Amazon, would require diverting nearly the entire flow of the Xingu, drying up the Big Bend of the Xingu and its tributary, the Bacajá, home to hundreds of indigenous people. Native people upstream would also be affected by the dam´s impacts on fish stocks, their principal food source. In May, one thousand indigenous people, in addition to social movements and environmentalists gathered in the town of Altamira, on the Xingu River, to protest the plans for Belo Monte and other dams on the Xingu. Please tell Brazil´s President Lula and other decision makers in the Brazilian government that you support the position of indigenous peoples of the rainforest - that Brazil has better ways of providing its future energy needs than destroying the mighty Xingu River and ancient Amazon rainforests.

TAKE ACTION NOW: http://www.rainforestportal.org/shared/alerts/send.aspx?id=brazil_xingu

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EU: Ban illegal timber

rudkla — 2008-06-18T15:14:00Z

Illegal logging is destroying the world's ancient forests and accelerating climate change. On July 23rd the European Commission is expected to vote on proposed legislation to combat illegal logging.

Public pressure is absolutely essential now to urge the Commission to help protect the world's forests and climate.

Please write to President Barroso today for a yes vote on July 23rd.

http://tinyurl.com/4umd25

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Papua Neuguinea: Hälfte des Regenwaldes in Gefahr

rudkla — 2008-06-15T05:50:00Z

Drittgrößter Regenwald wird schneller abgeholzt als angenommen. http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741683799ms104

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Zerstörung des Regenwalds in Brasilien hat sich wieder beschleunigt

rudkla — 2008-06-05T07:19:00Z

Im April wurden über 1.100 Quadratkilometer Regenwald zerstört.
http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/108923

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WWF's Rainforest Protection Goals Prolong Ecological Decline

rudkla — 2008-05-31T08:07:00Z

PRESS RELEASE

15% protection of last large intact forest ecosystems, and promotion of continued ancient forest diminishment, are insufficient to maintain Earth's ecosystems, climate, biosphere and human advancement

May 30, 2008

By Ecological Internet, http://www.ecologicalinternet.org/

This week the Democratic Republic of Congo announced new protections for 10% of their rainforest, moving towards Brazil's goal of 15% preservation of the Amazon. WWF and other environmental groups hailed 85% industrial destruction and diminishment of the rest of world's remaining large forest ecosystems as good news. At the UN biodiversity talks in Bonn, WWF organized non-binding national pledges to end deforestation, ignoring biological simplification caused by industrial forestry. WWF promotes first-time ancient primary forest logging which is nearly as bad ecologically as total deforestation. These inadequate responses come as a new study shows ecosystem loss is already costing hundreds of billions of dollars a year.

Ecological Internet is committed -- as keystone responses to the climate, biodiversity, water and food crises -- to ending all industrial development of the world's remaining primary and natural ecosystems, and committing to strict protection for half of the world's land and sea as global ecological reserves. The remainder will need to be ecologically managed to sustainably meet human needs in perpetuity. This will require massive ecological restoration and protection of forest remnants in over-developed countries, and major new protected areas (increased by 3-5 times) in countries holding the Earth's remaining primary natural habitats.

Dr. Glen Barry, Ecological Internet's President, explains "levels of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystem destruction, waste discharges into the atmosphere, and current population and consumption levels -- all exceed what can be sustained, much less expanded, and still main a livable Earth. Mainstream and even 'radical' groups such as Greenpeace and Rainforest Action Network are pursuing goals inadequate to sustain the biosphere -- further illustrating the failure of the environmental movement to enunciate a sufficient global ecological response. We intend to continue exposing forest liars, ensuring they cause no further harm."

Ecological Internet seeks to identify and implement ecological science based policies required to sustain global ecosystems and equitable opportunities for human advancement. Landscape ecology informs us that at 50% destruction of rainforests and other natural habitats, failure of associated natural patterns of biodiversity and ecosystem processes accelerates rapidly toward collapse. Organizations selling 10% protection and/or "certified" ancient forest logging as forest and climate solutions are a major part of the problem. They legitimize and prolong a dying economic paradigm, pursuing what easily possible rather than necessary. Without ecology there can be no economy.

"Establishing global ecological reserves over half the Earth's surface is required to achieve global ecological sustainability and ensure our and all species' habitat needs are met. This will be difficult, may take decades to achieve, and will need to be carried out in conjunction with population limits, ending fossil fuel use, and political commitments to equity, justice and peace. But this is the only way humanity will survive. An ecological revolution based upon ecological truths is needed immediately, not politically expedient half- measures."

As a sufficient global survival plan, Ecological Internet renews calls for rich nations to immediately dramatically cut emissions, finance strict rainforest protections, and begin wide-scale ecological restoration and protection at home. Further, national governments and environmentalists are called upon to reject simplistic, status-quo and inadequate responses to the complex interplay of ecological and social crises.

Further, not yet over-developed nations, with large intact habitats, should reject the failed Western development model of fast income at the expense of natural capital, and seek to advance their societies from standing forests and ecologically sustainable use of natural capital. True wealth in coming times of ecological collapse -- necessities such as water, soil, local climate and food -- will belong primarily to those that choose now to maintain intact ecosystems.

ENDS

Contact: Dr. Glen Barry, GlenBarry @EcologicalInternet.org,
+1 920 776 1075

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Brazil Rainforest Analysis Sets Off Political Debate

rudkla — 2008-05-26T03:57:00Z

Alexei Barrionuevo, of The New York Times: "Gilberto Camara, a scientist who leads Brazil's national space agency, is more at ease poring over satellite data of the Amazon than being thrust into the spotlight. But since January, Dr. Camara has been at the center of a political tug-of-war between scientists and Brazil's powerful business interests. It started when he and his fellow engineers released a report showing that deforestation of Brazil's portion of the rainforest seemed to have shot up again after two years of decline."

http://www.truthout.org/article/brazil-rainforest-analysis-sets-off-political-debate

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Fällen im Sekundentakt: Die Zerstörung des brasilianischen Regenwalds

rudkla — 2008-05-23T15:54:00Z

http://podster.de/episode/593375

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Amazon Indians lead battle against power giant's plan to flood rainforest
http://tinyurl.com/45x654

Informant: Teresa Binstock

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Whose Rain Forest Is This, Anyway?

rudkla — 2008-05-18T20:49:00Z

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/18/weekinreview/18barrionuevo.html

Informant: Dorothee Krien

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