cuckooroller
Registered User
Hi Folks,
From one of my list-servers.
>Subject: FORESTS ALERT: World's Second Largest Rainforest to be
Destroyed
>Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 09:09:27 -0600
>
>CONGO: World's Second Largest Rainforest to be Destroyed
> By Forests.org, Inc. - http://forests.org/
> March 18, 2004
>
>The World Bank and United Nations are seeking to increase logging by
60
>times in the Democratic Republic of Congo's priceless ancient
rainforests.
>They are doing so without a government in place and against local
>opposition.
>
>Where is the outrage? It takes one minute to protest turning Congo's
>rainforest wilderness into diminished tree farms. Please do so at:
>
>http://forests.org/action/africa/
>
>The alert has been updated to now target the UN as well. Alert
>participation has not been as high as desired. Consider that similar
>protests in Papua New Guinea have helped reduce industrial logging of
>primary rainforests by 80%. Who will protect the World's last
wildlands
>?>if not you?
>
>Please forward this alert widely, organize supporting protests and
visit
>the alert again to send your message to the UN. This is tremendously
>important. If industrial logging becomes established in the Congo to
the
>degree it has elsewhere, there is little hope that Congolese
rainforests -
>and their ecosystems, species and peoples - will be sustained.
>
>------
>
>Networked by Forests.org, Inc., [email protected]
> http://forests.org/ -- Forest Conservation Portal
> http://www.EnvironmentalSustainability.info/ -- Eco-Portal
> http://www.ClimateArk.org/ -- Climate Change Portal
> http://www.WaterConserve.info/ -- Water Conservation Portal
>
:C
From one of my list-servers.
>Subject: FORESTS ALERT: World's Second Largest Rainforest to be
Destroyed
>Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 09:09:27 -0600
>
>CONGO: World's Second Largest Rainforest to be Destroyed
> By Forests.org, Inc. - http://forests.org/
> March 18, 2004
>
>The World Bank and United Nations are seeking to increase logging by
60
>times in the Democratic Republic of Congo's priceless ancient
rainforests.
>They are doing so without a government in place and against local
>opposition.
>
>Where is the outrage? It takes one minute to protest turning Congo's
>rainforest wilderness into diminished tree farms. Please do so at:
>
>http://forests.org/action/africa/
>
>The alert has been updated to now target the UN as well. Alert
>participation has not been as high as desired. Consider that similar
>protests in Papua New Guinea have helped reduce industrial logging of
>primary rainforests by 80%. Who will protect the World's last
wildlands
>?>if not you?
>
>Please forward this alert widely, organize supporting protests and
visit
>the alert again to send your message to the UN. This is tremendously
>important. If industrial logging becomes established in the Congo to
the
>degree it has elsewhere, there is little hope that Congolese
rainforests -
>and their ecosystems, species and peoples - will be sustained.
>
>------
>
>Networked by Forests.org, Inc., [email protected]
> http://forests.org/ -- Forest Conservation Portal
> http://www.EnvironmentalSustainability.info/ -- Eco-Portal
> http://www.ClimateArk.org/ -- Climate Change Portal
> http://www.WaterConserve.info/ -- Water Conservation Portal
>
:C
