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Protest Destruction of Colombian Rainforests and Livelihoods to Feed Automobiles

By Climate Ark & Rainforest Portal, projects of Ecological Internet http://www.rainforestportal.org/ and http://forests.org/ September 2, 2007

TAKE ACTION It is gravely unethical and ecologically devastating to expand production of biofuels at the expense of ancient primary rainforests, biodiverse grasslands, local communities and their food sovereignty.

http://www.rainforestportal.org/alerts/send.asp?id=colombia_biofuel

The Colombian government is embarking on a massive expansion of oil palms, sugar cane and other monocultures for agrofuels and other markets at the expense of rainforests, biodiverse grasslands and local communities... Palm oil expansion is linked to large-scale rainforest destruction and to serious violence and human rights abuses. NGOs have documented 113 killings in the river basin of Curvaradó and Jiguamiandó, in Chocó region at the hands of paramilitaries who are working with plantation companies to take over land which legally belongs to Afro-Colombian communities... The Chocó forests which are being destroyed by palm oil expansion are some of the largest remaining coastal lowland rainforests on the Earth and are amongst the most biodiverse forests on Earth. They are home to 7,000 to 8,000 species, including 2,000 endemic plant species and 100 endemic bird species. Even before the current palm oil and agrofuel expansion, 66% had been destroyed. Please write to the Colombian government and ask them to protect the rights of indigenous, Afro- Colombian and peasant communities affected by large-scale monoculture plantations, to stop further deforestation for oil palm plantations, impose a moratorium on further palm oil expansion and on the country’s biofuel programme, which is a major cause of monoculture expansion, and to protect the land rights, the food sovereignty and the environment on which local communities depend. This email alert is supported by the Inter-Church Commission for Justice and Peace
(Comisión Intereclesial de Justicia y Paz) in Colombia.

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

DISCUSS ALERT: http://www.climateark.org/blog/2007/09/alert_protest_destruction_of_c.asp



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In Griechenland und anderswo haben die Brandbekämpfer oft nicht die Mittel, die Feuer wirksam einzudämmen oder zu löschen, allerdings gäbe es seit 15 Jahren eine wirksame Technik: das Sprenglöschverfahren, das aber nicht eingesetzt wird.

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By Climate Ark & Forests.org, projects of Ecological Internet http://www.climateark.org/ and http://forests.org/

August 25, 2007

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Dramatic efforts required to stop the expansion of Tasmanian old-growth forest logging by construction of a massive new paper pulp mill by Gunns Ltd

http://www.climateark.org/alerts/send.asp?id=tasmania

Tasmania, Australia's woodchipping giant Gunns Ltd. is poised to be granted fast track approval by the Tasmanian government to build a massive chemical pulp mill in northern Tasmania. This forest-hungry pulp mill will be a disaster for Australia's ancient forests, climate, wildlife and future. If built, the US$1.4 billion project would need four million tonnes of logs a year. It would double Gunns' current rate of clearcutting in Tasmania's native forests. It will also dump thousands of tonnes of poisonous effluent into Bass Strait every day, threatening marine life, tourism and the fishing industry. For way too long Tasmania's ancient forests - some containing massive eucalyptus trees - have been clearcut to produce paper pulp, mostly for the Japanese market... Continued markets for paper pulp from ancient forest liquidation depend upon this disastrous pulp mill being forced through the Australian legal system... the impact of this massive pulp mill on Tasmania's ancient native forests, much less regional and global climate, have not been considered. Additionally Minister Turnbull has acknowledged there is insufficient data available to assess the impacts of 64,000 tonnes a day of poisonous waste being released into Bass Strait... (the) Gunns had already signed a contract with construction firm John Holland to start building the pulp mill "in the first week of September"... At a time when Australia's federal government is proposing funding ancient forest protection and conservation internationally as a measure to a combat climate change, it is hypocritical and repulsive that Australia continues industrially clearing its own native forests. Australia's ancient forests will still be logged, even clearcut, for throw away consumer products; even as the Australian government calls upon less developed and poor nations to protect their forests for the climate.

TAKE ACTION NOW:
http://www.climateark.org/alerts/send.asp?id=tasmania

DISCUSS ALERT: http://www.climateark.org/blog/2007/08/protest_australias_ancient_for.asp



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Sophie Morris, The Independent UK, writes: "The Brazilian government stands accused of selling off huge swaths of the Amazon rainforest - including its oldest protected national park - to unscrupulous logging companies, under the cover of a flawed sustainable development project."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/082107EA.shtml



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Wälder aufzuforsten verringert Kohlendioxid-Emissionen weit besser als die Nutzung auf der gleichen Fläche gewonnenen pflanzlichen Biosprits.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/25/25982/1.html

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