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Liberty For All
by Rex Curry

01/03/08

I think that I shall never see a tree-law as beautiful as a tree and if the tree-laws do not fall I may not see a tree at all. As an attorney I am sometimes consulted by property owners who want to remove trees without fear of tree regulations. As an attorney I cannot advise my clients to ignore laws (though often tree laws seem easy to ignore). I can tell clients what a lot of people do: they don’t plant any tree that is covered by tree laws. And any tree protected by tree laws that is still small enough to be legally killed, is killed...

http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=1105


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/science/nature/7148278.stm


Informant: Teresa Binstock



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=deforestation

Protestaktion
http://www.regenwald.org/protestaktion.php?id=231



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Palmöl
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The Age, AU: "Vast tracts of tropical rainforests will be protected under a declaration signed last night by the governor of Brazil's Amazonas state and his counterparts from the Indonesian provinces of Aceh, Papua and West Papua."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/120707EB.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=rainforests

Klimakolonialismus
http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/99514



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Regenwald

http://tinyurl.com/2kve8u


Informant: Andy



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=deforestation

Marwaan Macan-Markar for Inter Press Service reports that "The millions of indigenous people living across Asia and the Pacific are finally gaining recognition for the key role they play in forest conservation."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/101807EC.shtml

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Tom Phillips of The Guardian UK says, "Across the Amazon region, illegal loggers, cattle ranchers and a growing number of soy producers continue their advance into the world's largest tropical forest. In August, government satellites registered 16,592 fires across Brazil, the overwhelming majority in the Amazon."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/101607EA.shtml



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ACTION ALERT

PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY!

Rainforest Portal & Climate Ark, projects of Ecological Internet http://www.rainforestportal.org/ & http://www.climateark.org/ October 15, 2007

TAKE ACTION Given revelations of misconduct in Democratic Republic of Congo's rainforests by the World Bank and UK aid agencies, the World Bank's desire to administer global carbon payments for rainforest protection as a means to address climate change is suspect http://www.rainforestportal.org/alerts/send.asp?id=world_bank_forest_policy

The World Bank's independent inspection panel has found serious violations of the Bank's own rules as foreign companies were encouraged to destructively log the Democratic Republic of Congo's (DRC) rainforests, endangering the lives of thousands of Congolese Pygmies. Along with the British government, the Bank has since 2002 sought to "create a favorable climate for industrial logging" in the Congo by rushing through new forestry laws and dividing the country's massive rainforests into logging zones. This is the World Bank's most recent failure to promote "sustainable" ancient rainforest logging, and comes as they position themselves to administer international carbon market funds meant to protect ancient rainforests for their climate benefits... The concept of "avoided deforestation" -- whereby countries are paid to protect forests -- has the potential to maintain standing rainforests in an intact, fully functioning condition; while meeting reasonable local development needs... Many crucial details regarding how avoided deforestation payments would work remain undefined... To be maximally effective, avoided deforestation climate payments should only support strict preservation of ancient forests; and not their "sustainable" selective logging, certified or otherwise... Industrial ancient forest logging must be rejected and replaced with an emphasis upon community development based upon standing, intact rainforests. This requires abandoning subsidizing of DRC's industrial forestry, fully protecting Pygmy rights, and ensuring carbon payments are made only for strict rainforest preservation.

TAKE ACTION NOW: http://www.rainforestportal.org/alerts/send.asp?id=world_bank_forest_policy



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=rainforest
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Congo
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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=deforestation

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=3zZtArv0xNwSkEgGOMEzCKbpGdVdUOWb

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