cuckooroller
Registered User
Having met with considerable resistance in projected clearing of highland forest in Irian Jaya for the purported intent of establishing Palm Oil Plantations even though said palms do not thrive at the stated altitudes, so much so that one may naively ask if the real intent was the wood stocks to be cleared for these plantations, the Chinese Government hand-in-hand with the Indonesian politicos are not to be deterred and are at it again!
"
> URGENT, URGENT, URGENT - PLEASE PROTEST AND FORWARD
>
> Dear Ecological Internet network participant,
>
> Chinese plans to use ancient rainforest timbers from Indonesia
> for Olympic construction offer a unique, discrete opportunity
> to raise the profile of China's increasing role in rainforest
> destruction - particulary in Southeast Asia. If you have not
> already, please immediately take action at:
>
> http://www.rainforestportal.org/alerts/send.asp?id=olympic_timber
>
> There are other opportunities to ensure this campaign is
> successful. On the bottom of the alert are links to addresses
> to contact your local Chinese embassy and Olympic committee
> with a follow-up letter. And lastly, please get the press release
> below in the hands of local and national media in your region.
> This Olympic logging tragedy must be stopped. Please forward this
> message to grow our network - we simply need more alert
> participation to be successful.
>
> Warm regards,
> Dr. Glen Barry
> *********************
>
> PRESS RELEASE
> Beijing, China 2008 Olympics: Destroying Ancient Rainforests to
> Raise the Torch
>
> May 1, 2006
> From Rainforest Portal, a project of Ecological Internet, Inc.,
> http://www.rainforestportal.org/
> Contact: Dr. Glen Barry, [email protected],
> +1 (920) 776-1075
>
> With two-and-a-half years to go until the start of the 2008
> Olympics to be held in Beijing China, the Chinese government and
> Olympic Committee have recently placed a $1 billion rush order
> for endangered ancient rainforest timbers. They are to be
> industrially logged from Indonesia's Papua province to be used
> in construction for the games.
>
> This weekend the Rainforest Portal and Ecological Internet's
> global ecological advocacy network launched a campaign against
> this Olympic rainforest tragedy at
> http://www.rainforestportal.org/ . Already several hundred
> thousand protest emails have been sent to the Chinese and other
> national Olympic committees. Many dozens of email accounts have
> been filled and shut down around the world.
>
> In explaining the rationale for the protest, Dr. Glen Barry
> notes "it is outrageous that China's Olympic facilities are to
> be constructed from ancient rainforests. It is against the
> Olympic ideals of bringing 'people together in peace to respect
> universal moral principles' when the events are housed in
> facilities constructed with timbers of questionable legality and
> morality. The Olympics should stand for peace and justice, not
> deforestation and ecosystem collapse."
>
> Indonesia's Papua province on the island of New Guinea has some
> of the world's last remaining large intact rainforests. The
> proposed timber processing factory would industrially harvest
> 800,000 cubic meters of the famous and threatened merbau (intsia
> spp) rainforest timbers, destroying huge swathes of ancient
> rainforests, to be exported to China for the construction of
> sports facilities.
>
> China's demand for timber following a ban on logging in their
> own country is devastating ancient rainforests around the world
> and particularly in Southeast Asia and Indonesia. An investment
> of this size will only serve to legitimize and further fuel
> illegal, highly unsustainable, and ecologically devastating
> logging, ensuring the destruction of the world last large and
> critically threatened ancient forests.
>
> The campaign is calling upon the Chinese government and Olympic
> committee to commit to hosting an "old-growth, ancient forest
> free" Olympics. As a start, the purchase of these Indonesian
> rainforest timbers must be cancelled. Failure to do so will
> permanently tarnish China and the Olympics' reputation.
"
> URGENT, URGENT, URGENT - PLEASE PROTEST AND FORWARD
>
> Dear Ecological Internet network participant,
>
> Chinese plans to use ancient rainforest timbers from Indonesia
> for Olympic construction offer a unique, discrete opportunity
> to raise the profile of China's increasing role in rainforest
> destruction - particulary in Southeast Asia. If you have not
> already, please immediately take action at:
>
> http://www.rainforestportal.org/alerts/send.asp?id=olympic_timber
>
> There are other opportunities to ensure this campaign is
> successful. On the bottom of the alert are links to addresses
> to contact your local Chinese embassy and Olympic committee
> with a follow-up letter. And lastly, please get the press release
> below in the hands of local and national media in your region.
> This Olympic logging tragedy must be stopped. Please forward this
> message to grow our network - we simply need more alert
> participation to be successful.
>
> Warm regards,
> Dr. Glen Barry
> *********************
>
> PRESS RELEASE
> Beijing, China 2008 Olympics: Destroying Ancient Rainforests to
> Raise the Torch
>
> May 1, 2006
> From Rainforest Portal, a project of Ecological Internet, Inc.,
> http://www.rainforestportal.org/
> Contact: Dr. Glen Barry, [email protected],
> +1 (920) 776-1075
>
> With two-and-a-half years to go until the start of the 2008
> Olympics to be held in Beijing China, the Chinese government and
> Olympic Committee have recently placed a $1 billion rush order
> for endangered ancient rainforest timbers. They are to be
> industrially logged from Indonesia's Papua province to be used
> in construction for the games.
>
> This weekend the Rainforest Portal and Ecological Internet's
> global ecological advocacy network launched a campaign against
> this Olympic rainforest tragedy at
> http://www.rainforestportal.org/ . Already several hundred
> thousand protest emails have been sent to the Chinese and other
> national Olympic committees. Many dozens of email accounts have
> been filled and shut down around the world.
>
> In explaining the rationale for the protest, Dr. Glen Barry
> notes "it is outrageous that China's Olympic facilities are to
> be constructed from ancient rainforests. It is against the
> Olympic ideals of bringing 'people together in peace to respect
> universal moral principles' when the events are housed in
> facilities constructed with timbers of questionable legality and
> morality. The Olympics should stand for peace and justice, not
> deforestation and ecosystem collapse."
>
> Indonesia's Papua province on the island of New Guinea has some
> of the world's last remaining large intact rainforests. The
> proposed timber processing factory would industrially harvest
> 800,000 cubic meters of the famous and threatened merbau (intsia
> spp) rainforest timbers, destroying huge swathes of ancient
> rainforests, to be exported to China for the construction of
> sports facilities.
>
> China's demand for timber following a ban on logging in their
> own country is devastating ancient rainforests around the world
> and particularly in Southeast Asia and Indonesia. An investment
> of this size will only serve to legitimize and further fuel
> illegal, highly unsustainable, and ecologically devastating
> logging, ensuring the destruction of the world last large and
> critically threatened ancient forests.
>
> The campaign is calling upon the Chinese government and Olympic
> committee to commit to hosting an "old-growth, ancient forest
> free" Olympics. As a start, the purchase of these Indonesian
> rainforest timbers must be cancelled. Failure to do so will
> permanently tarnish China and the Olympics' reputation.
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