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Allen Protesten und Warnungen von Umweltschützern, Wissenschaftlern, Menschenrechtlern, Fischern, Kleinbauern und Ureinwohnern zum Trotz: Brasiliens Regierung wird den drittgrößten Fluss des Landes, den rund 3160 km langen Rio São Francisco, teilweise umleiten, um – so die offiziellen Verlautbarungen - die Wasserversorgung im Nordosten zu verbessern. Das mit der Umsetzung der ersten Bauphase betreute 2. Ingenieursbataillon des brasilianischen Heeres ist bereits vor Ort in der Gemeinde Cabrobó, und rodet Ufervegetation und Caatinga-Wald auf den ersten Kilometern von insgesamt rund 720 Kilometer Kanalbauten mit einer Breite von 25 Metern. Wie die lokale Tageszeitung "O Tempo" berichtet, wurden bereits die ersten Kleinbauernfamilien aus den Kanalbau- und geplanten Staudammgebieten ausgesiedelt.

http://www.oekosmos.de/article/articleview/858/

ACTION ALERT

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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

Sue Branford and Jan Rocha of The New Statesman report that while there is hope stemming from a new generation of young Brazilian environmental technocrats who use satellite technology to save the rainforest, loggers, miners and farmers continue to find ways to evade laws that protect the Amazon.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/062907ED.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Amazon
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=logging

http://www.rainforestportal.org/issues/2007/06/making_global_rainforest_reser.asp

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Plant trees, lots of them, you can never plant enough!
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/3515163/



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

http://www.regenwald.org/protestaktion.php?id=183



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

Please voice your opposition to the decision to take and use "Ipe" wood from the Rainforest to replace boardwalk in Ocean City, NJ. Here is the article http://cbs3.com/topstories/local_story_165234545.html

Here is the website to Ocean City: http://www.ocnj.us/

Here is the contact info for the council: http://www.ocnj.us/pdfs/Clerk_CouncilContactInfo.pdf

PLEASE: Call, write, email...whatever you have to do to persuade them that cutting down the rainforest for boardwalk is NOT acceptable.


Informant: Sunshine Daydream



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

http://www.denverpost.com/nationworld/ci_6170309


Informant: Teresa Binstock

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuc4SJ7FZY4

Greepeace illustrates how development banks subsidize logging interests to clearcut the Congo rainforest.

Source: http://ga3.org/ct/M720pgF1AzJn/

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Plant trees, lots of them, you can never plant enough!
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/3515163/



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

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,2104801,00.html


Informant: Teresa Binstock

http://tinyurl.com/3aasm9


Informant: NHNE

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Plant trees, lots of them, you can never plant enough!
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/3515163/



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