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 PETITIONS AND ACTIONS FOR TREES AND FORESTS February 08, 2006 1:37 PM

Dear Shannon,

On May 5, the Bush administration repealed the widely supported
Roadless Area Conservation Rule, opening nearly sixty-million
acres of America's last wild National Forests to logging, road
construction, mining, oil exploration, and other forms of
development.

Under the new policy, if governors wish to have roadless areas
within their state protected, they must complete a burdensome
petition process and file their recommendations with political
appointees at the Department of Agriculture. The federal
government is free to accept, modify or reject these petitions,
while elected officials and citizens outside those states will
have no say at all about the fate of these shared national
treasures.

Conservationists throughout the country are joining together to
file an official petition with the Bush administration to demand
the reinstatement of the 2001 rule. We believe that:

America's last roadless National Forests belong to each and
every American and all our remaining roadless areas should be
protected, completely and permanently through reinstatement of
the Roadless Area Conservation Rule of 2001.
Conservationists throughout the country are joining together to
file an official petition with the Bush administration to demand
the reinstatement of the 2001 rule. We believe that:

America's last roadless National Forests belong to each and
every American and all our remaining roadless areas should be
protected, completely and permanently through reinstatement of
the Roadless Area Conservation Rule of 2001.

Join the Petition

http://www.net.org/petition.php?partner=CBD

please, forward to yr friends! thank you!

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NEW PETITION PROMOTING ORGANIC AGRICULTURE May 06, 2006 12:28 PM

Please, sign! thanks!

Congratulations Michael Hornborg and MTK
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/158897522
We wish to the new Spokesman of The Central Union of Agricultural Producers and Forest Owners (MTK) Michael Hornborg and the crew courage, enthusiasm, fairness, health, sobriety and wisdom leading Finland towards saving energy, and sustainable and self-supporting agriculture and being an example of perceiving, listening and taking seriously signs of the Earth, people, animals, trees and plants:


The Central Union of Agricultural Producers and Forest Owners (MTK) has a key and role model in sustainable development, human rights, prevention of diseases and health and strength of people and future generations:

1. Addressing the goal of stopping deforestation and losses of biodiversity and the importance of saving forests
in Finland and abroad. Encouraging a global push towards forestation, biodiversity and sustainable development
in the 5th International Forest Owners Congress in Finland in next September 2006.

2. Acknowledging the fact that feeding domestic animals and people in Europe with imported soya and meat from South America and Asia is unsustainable development.  (http://www.greenpeace.org/raw/content/international/press/reports/eating-up-the-amazon.pdf)

3. Taking a stand to save energy, to cut CO2 emissions and to promote the production of geothermal energy, bioenergy (biofuels and biogas) and wind energy through strengthening local economies (http://www.feasta.org/), taxation and cooperation, and by other means, and not bowing to the idea of exclusively centralized electricity and energy production.

4. Sending a message to national government and EU to support the global moratorium on Terminator technologies - genetically engineered sterile seeds - at the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) as Terminator technologies threaten seriously human rights, long term agriculture, biodiversity, food security and the diversive livelihood of the humankind.

5. Supporting studies of organic agriculture and promoting diversity, development and investments of the government, companies and farmers towards self-supporting organic agriculture and production of organic foods based on facts for human, animal and plant health (disease prevention), sustainable agriculture and environment.

6. Acknowledging the importance of cooperation with farmers, health care professionals, scientists, NGO's and civil society at large and responsibility, accountability and transparency of governments, companies and farmers.

7. Maintain the health and diversity of Earth’s eco-systems and environment through organic agriculture and forestry, and healthy cities, culture, us.  [ send green star]
 
Indonesia's Rainforests and Orangutans: Hope Emerges Anew!? May 12, 2006 1:16 AM

FUND-RAISING UPDATE
19% to goal, $4,930 raised of the $25,000 target from 41 donors
** Where else can your gift to the Planet's rainforests, climate & water have so much impact? Support Ecological Internet & the Earth at http://www.rainforestportal.org/donate/ or we both may be going away! Your donation is doubled for a limited time.

UPDATE
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RAINFOREST CONSERVATION NEWS TODAY
 Indonesia's Rainforests and Orangutans: Hope Emerges Anew!?
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Forests.org a project of Ecological Internet, Inc.

http://www.rainforestportal.org/ -- Rainforest Portal
http://forests.org/ -- Forest Conservation Portal

May 12, 2006
OVERVIEW & COMMENTARY by Dr. Glen Barry, Rainforest Portal

The Indonesian government has announced that only 180,000 (of 1.8 million) hectares of the much criticized mega-plantation project along the Indonesia-Malaysia border on the island of Borneo are suitable to be converted into oil palm plantations. Recall the "Heart of Borneo" rainforests are some of the last prime habitat for the world's dwindling viable populations of wild orangutans. What makes these statements even more
encouraging than previously reported opposition to the project within the Indonesian government is the fact that announcement was made by the Agriculture Minister, who has consistently been one of the most vocal proponents of the project.  [ send green star]
 
 July 01, 2006 6:00 AM

Please help us save Pigmy Chimps

It is looking very likely that Bonobo Apes (pigmy chimpanzees) will be
extinct within just a few years (95% population drop in two decades)

I am a member of Pan Pansicus, a group set up to raise awareness of the plight of the Bonobo Apes in the hope that urgent action can be taken.

Please may I ask you to sign our petition:

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/668509359

And also to recommend it to your friends. This is a very important and urgent petition.

See our website for more details, http://www.savebonobo.org/

Thank you very much

p.s. SAVING Pan Paniscus = SAVING FORESTS, spread the word!!! thank you sorry, double posting.  [ send green star]
 
Earthjustice: your gift will be matched and help support forests July 07, 2006 1:26 PM

https://secure.ga0.org/02/2006_match_em1/nhdLL2Dn1pEqp??source=isa060631004

Right now, the timber industry is set on opening up several million acres of national forest to unfettered logging throughout California and Alaska...

Their friends in the White House would be more than happy to oblige them... But today you and I have a unique opportunity to fight back with twice the power.

In response to this threat of irrevocable damage to some of America's most cherished lands, several generous members of Earthjustice's Board of Trustees have stepped forward to establish the 2006 Matching Gift Fund.

From today through July 15th, all gifts will be matched, dollar for dollar, up to our goal of $500,000. We need your help to take advantage of this special opportunity - please click here to have your gift matched today!

Here are just a few examples of the work your gift will help support:

::     Fighting the Emerald Bay sale in Alaska. Right now, thousands of acres hang in the balance as we fight to prevent the Emerald Bay timber sale. The sale would open the door to destructive road building and logging throughout Alaska's road-free Cleveland Peninsula.

::     Saving the 11 national forests of the Sierra Nevada. The Bush administration is intent on implementing a forest management plan written by and for giant timber companies. The plan disingenuously proposes to "manage wildfires" by logging large, fire-resistant trees deep in the backcountry - rather than focusing on fire-prone residential areas. Earthjustice attorneys are fighting this move.

::     Working with Congress to reinstate the Roadless Rule. Right now, Earthjustice is working to enact legislation that would make the Roadless Area Conservation Rule the law of the land - despite the Bush administration's repeal of the rule which opened 58.5 million acres of national forest to the threat of development.

Time and time again, the Forest Service has tried to sell off America's natural heritage for short-term gain; and time and time again, Earthjustice has stood up to block these attempts. We've already successfully halted potentially catastrophic logging projects in Washington state and the Giant Sequoia National Monument - we simply need the resources to continue our successful campaign to protect our threatened national forests.

Your contribution - matched if made by July 15th - can make this work possible. Please give generously to help us fully realize this extraordinary opportunity. Thank you in advance for your steadfast support.

Sincerely,

Vawter "Buck" Parker
Executive Director
Earthjustice  [ send green star]
 
Sign and Forward, thank you December 15, 2006 10:20 AM

ACTION ALERT: Save Rainforests in Uganda 10:16 AM
ACTION ALERT
Protest Plans to Destroy Uganda's Few Remaining Rainforests for
Plantations

Rainforest Portal, a project of Ecological Internet, Inc.
http://www.rainforestportal.org/
December 15, 2006

TAKE ACTION
Let the Ugandan President and Parliament know rainforests and
their ecological services are more valuable than sugar and oil
palm production
http://www.rainforestportal.org/alerts/send.asp?id=uganda

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni is pursuing legally dubious
plans to destroy much of Uganda's last few rainforests to grow
palm oil and sugar cane crops. Uganda has long been facing a
deforestation crisis, with forests covering 20 percent of Uganda
40 years ago, but now just covering seven percent. Loss of
forest cover in Uganda has had devastating ecological impacts
which will be intensified by the proposed projects.
Deforestation has been directly responsible for declining levels
of waters in Lake Victoria and the River Nile, resulting in a
scarcity of drinking water and reduction in hydroelectric energy
production. The whole matter seems to reflect a desperate power
grab by the President to reward cronies under false and illusory
promises of industrialization. The government has no legal
mandate to give out constitutionally protected forest reserves
to be cut down by private companies. Please contact President
Yoweri Museveni, the entire Ugandan parliament, and Ugandan
ministries and embassies and insist that these projects be
abandoned, and Uganda's remaining rainforest strictly protected
as ecological reserves while restoring forests where they
historically occurred.

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

Discuss this alert at:
http://www.rainforestportal.org/issues/2006/12/alert_protest_plans_to_destroy.asp  [ send green star]
 
Trees! December 19, 2006 7:14 PM

A BILLION TREES In 2004, it was Wangari Maathai who won the Nobel Peace Prize for her work in founding Kenya's Greenbelt Movement and promoting human rights. Now she has launched a massive drive aimed at curbing global warming -- she wants the world to plant and care for a billion trees during 2007. Individuals, children, youth groups, schools, community groups, NGOs, farmers, businesses, and local and national governments are encouraged to enter pledges online for anything from a single tree to 10 million trees. So far, 120 million have been pledged. A billion is one for every six people, so for example in Victoria (310,000 people) we need to plant 50,000 trees to contribute our share. Is anyone willing to assume the leadership for this? I'm sure there are lots of people who would help. See: http://www.unep.org/billiontreecampaign/ If you pledge --- KEEP THAT PROMISE!  [ send green star]  [ accepted]
 
Exciting! December 22, 2006 7:01 AM

Crossposted from Menkit P. Greenfleet - planting millions of native trees down under 3:23 AM http://www.greenfleet.com.au/planting/projects.asp Since 1997, Greenfleet has planted more than two million native trees on behalf of individual motorists and organisations - see Our Supporters. Greenfleet's policy is to plant trees to create forests in areas of enviornmental concern, putting back the mix of native species that had been there originally. The trees are propagated from seed collected in the local area to provide maximum ecological benefits - reducing salinity and soil erosion, and providing essential habitat for native species. The majority of our plantings occur in winter because the rains help to get the trees off to a good start. Download our Environmental Policy information sheet (62 KB PDF) It is expected that Greenfleet will continue to grow quickly over the next few years. Currently we plant trees in Victoria, ACT, Queensland, New South Wales, South Australia and Western Australia (we are currently seeking sites in Tasmania for 2006). One of our priorities is to become ‘Kyoto compliant', so that we have the ability to measure the carbon uptake from our trees to emerging international standards. (etc) Great photos! I just hope some logging company doesn't bulldoze them in 20 yrs time ....  [ send green star]  [ accepted]
 
Let's save the Borneo Forest August 13, 2007 1:33 PM

Let’s save the Borneo Forest

The forests of the Heart of Borneo are some of the most biologically diverse habitats on Earth, possessing staggeringly high numbers of unique plant and animal species. The Heart of Borneo's forest area is 1 of the only 2 places on Earth where orang-utans, elephants and rhinoceros still co-exist and where forests are currently large enough to maintain viable populations.

The remaining Borneo rainforest is the only natural habitat  for the endangered Bornean Orangutan . It is also an important refuge for many endemic  forest species, and the Asian Elephant , the Sumatran Rhinoceros  and the Bornean Clouded Leopard .

 

When we get this goal of 100.000 sign ups we will send the petition to this 3 governments. Please help us to save these wonderful forests. Sign here now 

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