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:: Rainforest PORTAL ::
Jan 2, 2006

Focus:Environment
Action Request:Various
Location:United States
hey yall,
this is longwinded writing from these guys,
but it's
good
RAINFOREST / FOREST stuff
peace,
Rob
=][=



----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, January 02, 2006 8:51 AM
 
FORESTS: Ecological Internet

Launches Rainforest Portal


> PRESS RELEASE
> Ecological Internet Launches Rainforest Portal
>   Focus upon ending ancient rainforest logging and other ecologically
>   sufficient policy responses
>
> January 2, 2006
> Released by Ecological Internet, Inc.
> Contact: Dr. Glen Barry, GlenBarry@EcologicalInternet.org
>
> (Wisconsin, USA) - A new Rainforest Portal dedicated to protection of the
> world's remaining tropical rainforests and the rights of their inhabitants
> is launching today.  The new site at http://www.rainforestportal.org/ is
> the latest is a long list of highly successful environmental portal
> offerings by Ecological Internet, Inc.  The portal provides unprecedented
> rainforest action, news, search and analysis capabilities.
>
> "Protecting and restoring the Earth's rainforests is a condition for both
> local and global ecological sustainability," explains Dr. Glen Barry,
> President of Ecological Internet.  "Sadly, rainforest loss and
> diminishment remain unacceptably high, threatening biosphere function and
> the very biological fabric of being."
>
> "Climate stabilization, species conservation, freshwater availability and
> development potential in tropical countries and the world all depend upon
> maintaining large rainforest ecosystems.  The age of industrial rainforest
> development is over, and the Rainforest Portal will in particular target
> all parties continuing to carry out and justify first time commercial
> logging of ancient rainforests.  The myth of 'sustainable' ancient
> old-growth forest logging will be smashed."
>
> As with Ecological Internet's other web sites (1), the Rainforest Portal
> is dedicated to the pursuit of truly adequate policy responses - in this
> case, achieving complete protection of the world's remaining rainforests.
> This sets the effort apart from many rainforest conservation efforts based
> upon what is easily marketable, making for good public relations and
> fund-raising, but with patchwork policies that are insufficient and often
> counter-productive.
>
> "The Rainforest Portal will be different than other types of rainforest
> conservation organizations generally in existence: bloated bureaucracies,
> paper tigers and foundation fed compromise collaborationists.  And the
> focus will be tightly upon rainforest conservation (2).  The site will
> never advocate industrial logging of ancient rainforests as being
> acceptable in order to appear reasonable and raise money - stealthily
> selling out what we are sworn to protect."
>
> Ecological Internet is already the home of the world's largest and most
> frequently used "Forest Conservation Portal" at http://forests.org/ --
> which will continue with a world wide forest conservation focus.  The
> Rainforest Portal will continue Forests.org's tradition of ecological
> science based rainforest conservation advocacy.  The site features a
> modern, functional graphic interface of a type soon to be replicated on
> all Ecological Internet web sites.
>
> "Working as a rainforest advocate for 17 years, it has long been my dream
> to build a web advocacy site dedicated to the protection of these ancient
> ecological and evolutionary masterpieces.  This has been hobbled by a
> string of unreliable partners, but now because of the generosity of
> hundreds of individual small donors, the dream has become a reality."
>
> Together the Rainforest Portal, Ecological Internet's international
> network of citizen activists and collaborating groups expect to be saving
> lots of rainforests in coming years - helping to usher in an era of global
> rainforest and ecological sustainability.
>
> Contact:
> Dr. Glen Barry
> President
> Ecological Internet, Inc.
> P.O. Box 433
> Denmark, WI 54208
> USA
> GlenBarry@EcologicalInternet.org
> +1 920 776 1075 phone
>
> ###ENDS###
>
> NOTES
>
> 1.)  In addition to the new Rainforest Portal at
> < http://www.rainforestportal.org/ >, Ecological Internet's environmental
> portals include:
>
> Eco Earth -- http://www.EcoEarth.Info/
> ClimateArk -- http://www.climateark.org/
> Forests.org -- http://forests.org/
> WaterConserve -- http://www.waterconserve.info/
> Ocean Conserve -- http://www.oceanconserve.info/
>
> 2.)  Unlike existing rainforest web offerings, the Rainforest Portal will
> be regularly updated (see http://www.rainforestweb.org/ whose "Rainforest
> News" is a year and a half old), and will focus tightly upon rainforest
> conservation (it is hard to find mention of tropical rainforests or
> campaigns on their behalf on the front page at http://www.ran.org/ ).
> Ecological Internet's rainforest conservation work emphasizes hard-hitting
> advocacy based upon ecological sufficiency, rather than token projects and
> empire building like so much of the rainforest conservation movement
> ( http://www.rainforest.no/html/180.htm comes to mind).
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Posted: Monday January 2, 2006, 10:42 pm
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Roxane S. (45) 		Monday January 2, 2006, 11:15 pm
I posted the Rainforest Portal's action alerts to the Bird Conservation group. Thank you for the info! :)

Rob M. (541) 		Monday January 2, 2006, 11:51 pm
hey Roxane, thanx, keep it up;-) peace, Rob =][=

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