Greenpeace, Come Clean and Stop Supporting Ancient Rainforest Logging
ACTION ALERT
PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY!
By Rainforest Portal, a project of Ecological Internet, Inc.
http://www.RainforestPortal.org/
June 30, 2007
TAKE ACTION
There is no such thing as certified, sustainable logging of primary forests. Tell Greenpeace to release their suppressed report on industrial certified forestry, and to resign the chair and withdraw from the Forest Stewardship Council
http://www.rainforestportal.org/alerts/send.asp?id=greenpeace
There is no denying the fact that Greenpeace supports Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) efforts to certify logging of primary and old-growth forests as environmentally acceptable. It is a matter of public record. FSC's international board is chaired by a Greenpeace forest campaigner and they have long promoted FSC as the source of "green" timber. Greenpeace supports industrial ancient forest logging even as they are apparently suppressing their own report on specific problematic forest certifications. Transparency and depth of ecological understanding are not Greenpeace's strength. When the whole notion of certified logging in ancient rainforests is questioned, the Greenpeace PR machine shifts into full gear and seeks to mislead rather than respond substantively to the concerns of those working to end ancient forest logging as a key response to climate change and requirement for global ecological sustainability... It is a difficult decision to campaign against this greenwashing; but FSC, Greenpeace and WWF are so insular, and so defensive of their failed support of industrial certified forestry, that true forest conservationists no longer have an option... Primary forests are irreversibly diminished when logged. Environmental groups cannot support nonsensical promises of "certified sustainable" ancient forest logging with impunity any longer... Greenpeace has invested years of effort into this nonsense, and presumably now would find it nearly impossible to admit they have been wrong. Let's renew our call that Greenpeace end their support for ancient forest logging, while publicizing the matter and urging their supporters to cancel their membership until they do so.
TAKE ACTION NOW:
http://www.rainforestportal.org/alerts/send.asp?id=greenpeace
DISCUSS ALERT: http://www.rainforestportal.org/issues/2007/06/alert_greenpeace_come_clean_an.asp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=rainforest
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=logging
PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY!
By Rainforest Portal, a project of Ecological Internet, Inc.
http://www.RainforestPortal.org/
June 30, 2007
TAKE ACTION
There is no such thing as certified, sustainable logging of primary forests. Tell Greenpeace to release their suppressed report on industrial certified forestry, and to resign the chair and withdraw from the Forest Stewardship Council
http://www.rainforestportal.org/alerts/send.asp?id=greenpeace
There is no denying the fact that Greenpeace supports Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) efforts to certify logging of primary and old-growth forests as environmentally acceptable. It is a matter of public record. FSC's international board is chaired by a Greenpeace forest campaigner and they have long promoted FSC as the source of "green" timber. Greenpeace supports industrial ancient forest logging even as they are apparently suppressing their own report on specific problematic forest certifications. Transparency and depth of ecological understanding are not Greenpeace's strength. When the whole notion of certified logging in ancient rainforests is questioned, the Greenpeace PR machine shifts into full gear and seeks to mislead rather than respond substantively to the concerns of those working to end ancient forest logging as a key response to climate change and requirement for global ecological sustainability... It is a difficult decision to campaign against this greenwashing; but FSC, Greenpeace and WWF are so insular, and so defensive of their failed support of industrial certified forestry, that true forest conservationists no longer have an option... Primary forests are irreversibly diminished when logged. Environmental groups cannot support nonsensical promises of "certified sustainable" ancient forest logging with impunity any longer... Greenpeace has invested years of effort into this nonsense, and presumably now would find it nearly impossible to admit they have been wrong. Let's renew our call that Greenpeace end their support for ancient forest logging, while publicizing the matter and urging their supporters to cancel their membership until they do so.
TAKE ACTION NOW:
http://www.rainforestportal.org/alerts/send.asp?id=greenpeace
DISCUSS ALERT: http://www.rainforestportal.org/issues/2007/06/alert_greenpeace_come_clean_an.asp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=rainforest
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=logging
rudkla - 30. Jun, 22:56
