Rainforest Issues

EARTH MEANDERS: On Violence and Earth Revolution
Imagining the human family coming together to take well considered, decisive, and minimally or non-violent action to sustain global ecology By Dr. Glen Barry, <a href="http://www.ecologicalinternet.org/">Ecological Internet</a> <a href="http://www.ecoearth.info/earthmeanders/">Earth Meanders</a> come from <a href="http://www.ecoearth.info/newsdesk/">Earth's Newsdesk</a> Human Familys Ecocidal Death Wish <img alt="Earth is dying... and a people power Earth uprising is the only way together we survive" src="http://www.ecoearth.info/blog/img/Revolution-fist.jpg" width="125" height="125" class="floatLeft" />The ecological foundation of being is unraveling before our very eyes. Without ecosystems there is no life. Fiercely loving Earth is the answer. Let's sustain global ecology together like our shared survival and abundance depends upon it. And while we set out using classic civil disobedience tactics, lets not dismiss out of hand any obstruction, uncivil disobedience, sabotage and targeted insurgency tactics that are non-terrorist and that may be necessary to achieve global ecological sustainability. The human familys shared survival depends upon passionately defending Earth using all means necessary. Earth's ecosystems are collapsing under the burden of human growth, destroying our one shared biosphere that makes life possible. Industrial growth frantically destroying ecosystems to feed insatiable, ever-growing appetites is an aberration, a mistake, a disease. If left untreated, this will be the end of the human family, all life, and Earth's very being. Infinite economic growth at the expense of ecosystems is impossible, and seeking endless and inequitable growth in consumption and population can only lead to collapse and massive die-off. Humanitys last best chance to justly and equitably sustain a livable planet is to protect and restore ecosystems, end fossil fuels, and a people's power Earth revolution to utterly destroy the ecocidal industrial growth machine. We are all bloody fools to tolerate and not immediately overthrow a violently ecocidal system that is killing us all. If we all understood the implications of global ecosystem collapse, we would go now, together, and slay the global growth machine. It is too late to escape profound ecological decline, yet complete disastrous social and ecological collapse and possible end to most or all life may yet be avoided. Sustaining ecology must become societys central organizing principle or humans and all species face horrendous death. Globally it is time for radical change to simply survive converging ecology, food, war, water, inequity, population, climate, jobs, ocean, and extinction crises. It is deeply troubling most "environmentalists" deny the severity of ecosystem collapse, rejecting out of hand revolutionary measures sufficient to sustain ecology. 

ALERT! Stop Peru's Road to Rainforest Ecocide and Genocide of Uncontacted Indigenous Tribes
By Ecological Internet's <a href="http://www.rainforestportal.org/">Rainforest Portal</a> <img alt="Please end plans for road through Alto Purus and uncontacted indigenous rainforestl" src="http://www.rainforestportal.org/issues/img/peru-uncontacted.jpg" width="125" height="125" class="floatRight" /><a href="http://www.rainforestportal.org/shared/alerts/sendsm.aspx?id=peru_uncontacted_genocide">TAKE ACTION HERE NOW!</a> Plans are to build a highway through Alto Purus - Perus largest national park comprised of vital intact Amazonian rainforest ecosystems and inhabited by at least two 'uncontacted' indigenous tribes [<a href="http://www.rainforestportal.org/shared/search/welcome.aspx?searchtext=peru%20uncontacted">search</a>]. The Alto Purus protected rainforest in south-east Peru is an area of incredible biodiversity covering some of the most pristine forests in the southwestern Amazon and home to jaguars, monkeys and pink dolphins. To cut it with a road would compromise the integrity of the entire Amazonion basin and trigger the swift demise of some of Earths last isolated hunting and gathering tribes. One of the 'uncontacted' tribes in the park is known as the 'Mashco-Piro', thought to be the largest group i

ALERT! NAMING NAMES: UN REDD+ Forest Carbon Fund to Log Primary Forests with Corporate NGO Greenwash Support
By Ecological Internet's <a href="http://www.rainforestportal.org/">Rainforest Portal</a> and <a href="http://www.climateark.org/">ClimateArk</a> <img alt="Time to end primary forest logging" src="http://www.rainforestportal.org/issues/img/png_ramu_logging_sm.jpg" width="125" height="125" class="floatLeft" /><a href="http://www.rainforestportal.org/shared/alerts/send.aspx?id=redd-logging">TAKE ACTION HERE NOW!</a> Earth is facing the twin global ecological emergencies of abrupt climate change and land being scoured of natural ecosystems. Sadly, corporate American NGOs and the United Nations are responding to these crises by further promoting logging ancient forests. The United Nations REDD+ program to protect primary and old growth forests as a climate change and deforestation solution has been hi-jacked by logging interests [<a href="http://www.rainforestportal.org/shared/search/welcome.aspx?searchtext=REDD%20logging">search</a>] and their big pro-logging NGO friends, and will instead subsidize primary forest logging for new plantations. REDD has become a gravy train for consultants, greenwashing NGOs and charlatans of many sorts - claiming logging ancient rainforests for the first time protects them! Old standing natural forest ecosystems are key to sustaining climate, ecosystems, biodiversity, local livelihoods humanity and the Earth System. Corporate NGOs supporting REDD+ must be compelled to stop their old forest logging greenwash - or face ridicule, protest, and an end to public support, until they do.

ALERT! Brazilian Forest Code Revisions Threaten Amazon Rainforest, National Advancement, and Ecological Sustainability
By Ecological Internet's <a href="http://www.rainforestportal.org/">Rainforest Portal</a> <img alt="Destroying rainforests destroys agricultural potential" src="http://www.rainforestportal.org/issues/img/amazon_ag_clear_sm.jpg" width="125" height="125" class="floatRight" /><a href="http://www.rainforestportal.org/shared/alerts/sendsm.aspx?id=brazil_forest_code">TAKE ACTION HERE NOW!</a> Brazil's industrial agriculture lobby has forced through their Congress changes to the forest code [<a href="http://www.rainforestportal.org/shared/search/welcome.aspx?searchtext=brazil%20forest%20code">search</a>], the primary legal instrument related to Amazon rainforest protections. It has been done without any scientific inputs, and in a way that will greatly expand industrial agriculture by reducing ecological protections. Newly elected President Dilma Rousseff must be encouraged to veto the bill, something she promised to do during the election. Efforts to address forest code deficiencies must recommence in a manner that incorporates the latest agro-ecological science regarding sustainable agriculture and the importance of large, connected and intact rainforest ecosystems within agricultural landscapes. Without a veto, recent progress in Amazon rainforest protection is at stake just as Brazil is to host the Rio+20 Earth Summit in 2012.

RAINFOREST ALERT! Protest Belize National Park Being Opened by Corrupt U.S. Oil Exploration to Illegal Logging
By Ecological Internet's <a href="http://www.rainforestportal.org/">Rainforest Portal</a> <img alt="Cleared strips of rainforests for oil production open protected area to illegal logging" src="http://www.rainforestportal.org/issues/img/belize_seismic_line_sm.jpg" width="125" height="125" class="floatRight" /><a href="http://www.rainforestportal.org/shared/alerts/sendsm.aspx?id=belize_oil_logging">TAKE ACTION HERE NOW!</a> Belizes renowned rainforests [<a href="http://www.rainforestportal.org/shared/search/welcome.aspx?searchtext=Belize%20rainforest">search</a>], beaches, and Mayan homelands are threatened with a resource rampage by a corrupt government confronted with massive foreign debt. With the Prime Minister's permission, Colorado-based oil company US Capital Energy is drilling seismic testing lines through the ecologically spectacular Sarstoon-Temash national park - against international treaty commitments and a Belizean Supreme Court ruling. These cleared lines are now being used by poachers to ransack the rainforest, with stolen timbers transported to Guatemala and onward to China.

EARTH MEANDERS: They Say Its My Birthday and I have a few wishes
<img alt="Support EcoInternet and believe in the wisdom of old trees in ancient forests" src="http://forests.org/blog/img/english-oak.jpg" width ="125" height="125" class="floatRight" /> Today is my birthday and its going to be a good time. So as I craft a day of mirth, free spirit and all my favorite activities, let me ruminate upon what I wish for as gifts on this special day. I want peace on Earth, real peace, the kind where the armies demobilize and dont remain standing like it used to be. Peace where trillions arent wasted from funding public social needs. I want a real and permanent turning of tanks into ploughshares. Wars obscene waste of energy, materials, human potential and life cannot persist if human and ecological being are to continue. I want it to end now. The truth is we are one human family, one species, perhaps from different lineages with a crazy uncle, but a family nonetheless. And I want us to start acting like it. Nation state boundaries are a new false construct meant to divide us. As a human family I want our basic universal rights strictly and unconditionally observed. The human condition is absolute freedom as long as we dont hurt others. I want gods and governments off of and out of my body.

ALERT: Uganda's Protected Mabira Rainforest Threatened Again by Sugar Production
By Ecological Internet's <a href="http://www.rainforestportal.org/">Rainforest Portal</a> <img alt="Sugar cane plantations must not threaten protected rainforests" src="http://www.rainforestportal.org/issues/img/sugar_cane.jpg" width="50" height="90" class="floatRight" /><a href="http://www.rainforestportal.org/shared/alerts/sendsm.aspx?id=ran_ancient_forest_logging">TAKE ACTION HERE NOW!</a> Plans by Uganda's President to partially destroy the <a href="http://www.rainforestportal.org/shared/search/welcome.aspx?searchtext=Mabira%20rainforest">Mabira rainforest</a> - one of the nation's most important rainforest preserves - have surfaced again after being defeated in 2007. Let the Ugandan government know rainforests and their ecological services including water, climate and biodiversity are far more important than sugar which can be grown elsewhere. Together with local opposition Ecological Internet has defeated this project twice before, let's do it again.

RELEASE: Today as Rainforest Action Network and Awardee Naomi Klein REVEL, Primary Rainforests Continue to Be Destroyed in Their Names
By <a href="http://www.ecoearth.info/newsdesk/">Earth's Newsdesk</a>, a project of <a href="http://www.ecologicalinternet.org/">Ecological Internet</a> http://www.ecoearth.info/newsdesk/ CONTACT: Dr. Glen Barry, <a href="mailto:glenbarry@ecologicalinternet.org">glenbarry@ecologicalinternet.org</a> <a href="http://www.rainforestportal.org/issues/img/ran_ny_protest_lg.jpg"><img alt="FSC is NOT rainforest safe" src="http://www.rainforestportal.org/issues/img/ran_ny_protest.jpg" width="120" height="120" class="floatLeft" /></a> - Once again Ecological Internets true global rainforest action network questions the dominate paradigm that primary rainforests exist to be industrially logged [<a href="http://www.rainforestportal.org/shared/search/welcome.aspx?searchtext=rainforest%20industrial%20log">search</a>]. The Rainforest Action Network and Forest Stewardship Council are first time industrial primary forest logging which must end immediately. Standing, intact primary rainforests and all old forests must be fully protected from certified and carbon forestry, and restored to continue powering global ecosystems and advance local communities. (Earth) - Today San Francisco based Rainforest Action Network (RAN) will throw yet another swanky celebrity filled party to REVEL and congratulate themselves for logging primary forests to protect them, and to raise further money for such "rainforest protection". RAN continues to hold to the myth that primary rainforests - 500 year old trees in millions of year old ecosystems - should be "sustainably managed" for consumption such as toilet paper and lawn furniture. Noted author Naomi Klein will be RAN's guest of honor, receive an award, and has been vocal in defending the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) brand of disaster capitalism.

ACTION ALERT! FSC Rainforest Logging is Disaster Capitalism: Tell RAN and Naomi Klein, No Such Thing as "Ethical Primary Forest Timbers"
By Ecological Internet's <a href="http://www.rainforestportal.org/">Rainforest Portal</a> <img alt="Demand RAN stop supporting primary forest logging and immediately resign from FSC" src="http://www.rainforestportal.org/issues/img/boreal_clearcut.jpg" width="125" height="125" class="floatRight" /><a href="http://www.rainforestportal.org/shared/alerts/sendsm.aspx?id=ran_ancient_forest_logging">TAKE ACTION HERE NOW!</a> SHAME! Rainforest Action Network (RAN) is one of the primary obstacles to protecting ancient rainforests [<a href="http://www.rainforestportal.org/shared/search/welcome.aspx?searchtext=protect%20rainforest">search</a>] as they promote their first time industrial logging. RAN founded and ardently supports the Forest Stewardship Council's (FSC) [<a href="http://www.rainforestportal.org/shared/search/welcome.aspx?searchtext=forest%20stewardship%20council">search</a>] destruction of 320,000,000 acres of primary forests (the size of South Africa), including for toilet paper and lawn furniture. This week RAN throws another swanky celebrity filled party to congratulate themselves for logging primary forests to protect them, and to raise further money for more such "rainforest protection". Noted author Naomi Klein will be their guest of honor and receive an award from RAN. Please make Naomi aware of this greenwash, ask that she decline the award to protest RAN's disaster capitalism, and demand that RAN resign from FSC.

EARTH MEANDERS: 9/11/01 The Day America Died
The 9/11 attacks were inhumane barbarity that brutally destroyed thousands. Yet America squandered the opportunity to unite the world against terrorism, instead going it alone to wage perma-war for a decade (permanent war, still on-going), causing tremendous lasting damage to life in America, our ideals, and world standing. In policies that can best be described as grotesque acts of revenge, hundreds of times the original victims of 9/11 were murdered by U.S. troops given illegal orders. Many if not most of the 300,000 to 1,000,000 killed were innocents just as in the twin tower attacks. This is not the America where I was born and raised. If these militarist, fascist, morally and financially bankrupt policies and resultant collapse of ecology continue; the simpler, more honorable America has died, perhaps forever. By Dr. Glen Barry, <a href="http://www.ecologicalinternet.org/">Ecological Internet</a> <a href="http://www.ecoearth.info/earthmeanders/">Earth Meanders</a> come from <a href="http://www.ecoearth.info/newsdesk/">Earth's Newsdesk</a> Introduction <img alt="This is not the America I know and love" src="http://www.ecoearth.info/blog/img/bush_war_criminal.jpg" width ="125" class="floatRight" /> On the tenth anniversary of 9/11 attacks upon America, I too mourn 3,000 victims of a monstrous criminal evil. Yet as a politically unaffiliated free thinker and global citizen, I am acutely aware that this was only the beginning of the decades violent criminal atrocities. I will not and cannot forget Americas dramatic and incautious over-reaction, as mostly decent countrymen and women lashed out with a murderous vengeance. Some 250,000 to one million have been killed in Iraq and about 50,000 in Afghanistan by Americas illegal wars and military aggression (some estimates run much higher). Why bring this up today? Because those that write history control our future, and the true story of American war crimes has not been told. Post-911, Americas political leaders with vast public support, turned loose its vengeful legions and killing machines, in effect murdering as occurs with all war deaths at least 100 to 350 times as many innocents in Persia and Arabia as were lost in the twin towers. The vast majority of these casualties are innocent civilians that loved their children, worked, and prayed to their god just like their New York brethren. Given that several hundred thousand to a million innocent Middle East civilians have been murdered in a decade of American cold-blooded revenge for 9/11, this essay will ask whether this is enough and the wars of murderous vengeance can end now.

RELEASE/VICTORY: Papua New Guinea Begins Commission of Inquiry into Rainforest Land Grabs
By <a href="http://www.ecoearth.info/newsdesk/">Earth's Newsdesk</a> and the <a href="http://www.rainforestportal.org/">Rainforest Portal</a>, projects of <a href="http://www.ecologicalinternet.org/">Ecological Internet</a> javascript:void(0); CONTACT: Dr. Glen Barry, <a href="mailto:glenbarry@ecologicalinternet.org">glenbarry@ecologicalinternet.org</a> <img alt="Time to end rainforest logging in Papua New Guinea and the world" src="http://www.rainforestportal.org/issues/img/oilpalm_png.jpg" width="125" height="125" class="floatLeft" /> Once again Ecological Internets true global rainforest action network contributes to questioning and obstructing the dominate paradigm that primary rainforests exist to be industrially logged Papua New Guinea has launched a Commission of Inquiry into foreign land grabs of pristine, indigenous owned primary rainforests for clearcut logging and supposed oil palm development. PNG has the worlds third largest rainforests [<a href="http://www.rainforestportal.org/shared/search/welcome.aspx?searchtext=PNG%20rainforest">search</a>], but sadly industrial logging and oil palm are booming, and large, intact old rainforest ecosystems are dwindling fast. An entrenched and voracious Malaysian timber-mafia has until now virtually owned the government and the nations rainforests. Special Agriculture and Business Leases (SABL) covering 5.2 million hectares (12.8 million acres) were granted 74 times in recent years by former Prime Minister Michael Somare. These agriculture projects skirted forestry laws and customary land ownership, allowing clearcuts of primary rainforests on customary land without consent, for oil palm which may or may not get planted. Local national led NGOs such as the highly successful ACT NOW![1] and others expressed concern that SABL leases were improperly executed and would result in large scale logging without providing agricultural development.

EARTH MEANDERS: The Great Rainforest Heist: Greenpeace, WWF, RAN, FSC and REDD+ Conspiracy to Log Earths Last Primary Forests for Their Protection
By <a href="http://www.ecoearth.info/earthmeanders/">Earth Meanders</a>, a project of <a href="http://www.ecologicalinternet.org/">Ecological Internet</a> CONTACT: Dr. Glen Barry, <a href="mailto:glenbarry@ecologicalinternet.org">glenbarry@ecologicalinternet.org</a> <a href="http://www.rainforestportal.org/issues/img/ran_ny_protest_lg.jpg"><img alt="FSC is NOT rainforest safe" src="http://www.rainforestportal.org/issues/img/ran_ny_protest.jpg" width="120" height="120" class="floatRight" /></a> WHEN GOOD RAINFOREST GROUPS GO BAD you get monoculture and secondary forest plantations where ancient intact primary rainforests once stood, called sustainable forest management and carbon forestry, by BINGOs (big NGOs) and United Nations greenwashers, paid for with your membership fees and taxes. Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) is primary forest logging greenwash by money-sucking environmental bureaucracies. Rainforests and other old forest must be protected and restored for local and global ecology and local eco-development from standing forests. Please donate now to Ecological Internets End Primary Forest Logging Campaign at <a href="http://www.rainforestportal.org/shared/donate/end_primary_forest_logging/">http://www.rainforestportal.org/shared/donate/end_primary_forest_logging/</a> in order to help turn this draft document into a polished, photogenic, researched and footnoted report on BINGOs Increased Old Forest Greenwash. Relax, there are typos, but wanted to get this out right now in draft. INTRODUCTION What would you say to me if I told you the worlds pre-eminent environmental organizations, widely perceived as the leading advocates for rainforests and old growth, have for decades been actively, indeed intimately, involved in logging the worlds last old forests. Would you call me a liar? Tell me I am mentally ill? Or because of the cognitive dissonance would you simply ignore me, thinking it impossible? Well here goes nothing There is a global conspiracy to log the Earths last primary forests destroying ancient forests for disposable consumer items while claiming it is sustainable forest management and carbon forestry. A number of public forest advocacy groups are going so far as to actually claim that industrial first-time primary forest logging is good for climate, ecosystems and local peoples.

EARTH MEANDERS: Ecology Bubble Bursts
End of ecosystems required for human habitat upon us, not many ways to sustain global ecology left By Dr. Glen Barry, <a href="http://www.ecologicalinternet.org/">Ecological Internet</a> <a href="http://www.ecoearth.info/earthmeanders/">Earth Meanders</a> come from <a href="http://www.ecoearth.info/newsdesk/">Earth's Newsdesk</a> <img alt="Earth is dying, not many ways left to save" src="http://www.ecoearth.info/blog/img/wolf_howl.jpg" width ="90" height="90" class="floatLeft" /> Ever since the human family embraced a growth based mentality and obsequious faith in liberal economics, we have witnessed a series of bubbles. The most recent boom-bust cycle has been the still unresolved financial and mortgage bubbles, but bubbles go as far back as the Dutch tulip mania of 1637. Exuberant yet clearly unsustainable growth, or inversely destruction, appears to be inherent to industrial, speculative, and growth obsessed capitalism. Bubbles represent the human proclivity for greed, to grow too fast, overshooting demand, while often exhausting key resources. Global ecology, the biggest bubble of all, is now collapsing and will soon burst. Voracious economic and human growth have raged for three centuries upon the back of dismantling ecosystems globally. Humanitys economic outputs have been over-valued relative to the ecologically mediated resources incautiously razed for their production. Earths carrying capacity - meaning ecology's finite ability to provide ecosystem services and absorb pollution has been surpassed. Having grown beyond what Earth can bear, the human family is said to be in "overshoot", which can only lead to collapse. 

ALERT! Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Is Primary Forest Logging: Clearing Rainforests for Plantations Is NOT Sustainable, Members Must Stop Greenwash or Resign
By Ecological Internet's <a href="http://www.rainforestportal.org/">Rainforest Portal</a> <img alt="FSC old growth forest logging in Canadian boreal to produce FSC certified toilet paper! To solve climate change, biodiversity, ecosystem and biosphere crises - while meeting local needs from standing old forests - requires old forest protection and restoration." src="http://www.rainforestportal.org/issues/img/boreal_clearcut.jpg" width="125" height="125" class="floatLeft" /><a href="http://www.rainforestportal.org/shared/alerts/sendsm.aspx?id=fsc_logging">TAKE ACTION HERE NOW!</a> The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) [<a href="http://www.rainforestportal.org/shared/search/welcome.aspx?searchtext=forest%20stewardship%20council">search</a>] brand gets 70% of its timber and pulp by greenwashing current and planned destruction of 130,000,000 hectares of primary rainforests and other old forests an area the size of South Africa. This week - at FSCs tri-annual General Assembly in Malaysia the ecocidal greenwash worsens, as FSC may start certifying plantations timbers from land cleared of primary rainforests [<a href="http://www.rainforestportal.org/shared/search/welcome.aspx?searchtext=primaryt%20rainforest">search</a>] as being "sustainable" as well. Being the best ecocidal rainforest destroyer is nothing to be proud of all such deadly old forest certification schemes must stop. Please call upon all FSC members to reject the certification of primary forests by resigning immediately, as many others have recently done. Further, demand FSC immediately stop certifying primary forest logging or disband itself now during their meeting. Thank you for participating in EI's on-going global campaign to end primary forest logging, and to protect and restore old forests, as keystone responses to abrupt climate change, biodiversity loss and global ecosystem collapse.

ALERT! End U.S. FrankenTree Experiments: Genetically Engineered Trees Risky, Unnecessary and Must Be Resisted until Banned
<img alt="Genetically Engineered Trees are Toxic and Anti-Ecology and People" src="http://forests.org/blog/img/getrees.jpg" width="111" height="111" class="floatRight" /><a href="http://forests.org/shared/alerts/sendsm.aspx?id=frankentrees">TAKE ACTION HERE NOW!</a> Eucalyptus is the perfect neoliberal tree. It grows quickly, turns a quick profit in the global market and destroys the earth. Jaime Aviles, La Jornada. Over a quarter of a million genetically altered eucalyptus trees have been incautiously approved for planting by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Ultimately GE tree [<a href="http://forests.org/shared/search/welcome.aspx?searchtext=genetically%20trees">search</a>] company ArborGen plans to sell these FrankenTrees for planting across millions of hectares from Texas to Florida - undoubtedly with some sort of sustainability greenwash for biofuel, pulp and timber. You can help us stop this disaster before it is too late. These genetically modified eucalyptus trees are like the notoriously aggressively expanding Kudzu plant invaders, but explosively flammable and toxic. In the 1990s and early 2000s a similar threat in Europe was largely rebuffed through direct action together people simply destroyed the tree saplings. Discuss Alert: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/ecointernet">http://www.facebook.com/ecointernet </a> <a href="http://forests.org /blog">http://forests.org/blog</a> 

RELEASE/VICTORY! Ecological Internet Successfully Leads in Protection of the Serengeti Wildlife Migration
EI 2011 Mid-Year Fund-Raiser Update: 44% to goal, $ 17,542 raised from 142 donors, $22,458 or 44% to go. Do you want more huge ecology victories like majorly contributing to protecting the Serengeti from roads and many dozen equally important victories (see highlights at http://forests.org/shared/kudos/ ) in the past? Then please, donate now to celebrate this huge victory: <a href="http://forests.org/shared/donate/">http://forests.org/shared/donate/</a> By <a href="http://www.ecoearth.info/newsdesk/">Earth's Newsdesk</a>, a project of <a href="http://www.ecologicalinternet.org/">Ecological Internet (EI)</a> CONTACT: Dr. Glen Barry, glenbarry@ecologicalinternet.org <img alt="Roads do not belong in the Serengeti ecosystem" src="http://forests.org/blog/img/wildebeest_migration.jpg" width="125" height="125" class="floatRight" /> The Tanzanian government has cancelled for now a road that would have cut through the northern portion of the Serengeti National Park [<a href="http://forests.org/shared/search/welcome.aspx?searchtext=Serengeti">search</a>]. The road would have threatened the entire ecosystem and cut the migration routes of wildebeest, elephant, antelope, zebra and much other magnificent wildlife. Serengeti's migrations [<a href="http://www.climateark.org/shared/search/welcome.aspx?searchtext=serengeti%20migration">search</a>] are one of the natural wonders of the world. The proposed and nearly constructed major commercial highway to be located near the Kenyan border would have been in the most remote and pristine area in the Parks entire ecosystem. It was expected that by 2015 some 800 vehicles a day would cross the park. The road would have physically blocked the migration, introduced invasive species, and led to greater poaching ultimately killing the migration altogether.

ALERT! Stop UN Climate Science Panel Moves to Fund, Research & Implement Geoengineering "Climate Solution"
By Ecological Internet's <a href="http://www.climateark.org/">Climate Ark Climate Change Portal</a> <img alt="Is humanity ready to engineer a livable biosphere forever?" src="http://www.climateark.org/blog/img/geoengineering125.jpg" width="125" height="125" class="floatLeft" /><a href="/shared/alerts/sendsm.aspx?id=geoengineer_ban">TAKE ACTION HERE NOW! </a> Geoengineering is the proposed large scale manipulation of Earths oceans, soils, sunlight and atmosphere with the intent of combating climate change. With no mandate, the UN's International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) [<a href="http://www.climateark.org/shared/search/welcome.aspx?searchtext=ipcc">search</a>] has begun talks on funding geoengineering research [<a href="http://www.climateark.org/shared/search/welcome.aspx?searchtext=geoengineering">search</a>]. Past adoption of virtually all major new technologies regardless of risk shows us if developed, geoengineering will surely be implemented. Modifying Earth at a planetary scale is so complex, and ecological and other side effects potentially so severe, that dire unintended consequences are certain. Simply, a biosphere cannot be engineered. The only way to address climate and ecology change is to end ecosystem loss and fossil fuel use; while equitably reducing emissions, consumption and population. Tell the United Nations to get out of the business of geoengineering, and lead by example in embracing social change and personal transformation adequate to achieve global climate and ecological sustainability.

ALERT! Ken to Barbie Doll and Greenpeace USA: Not Coming Back Just Because You Say Your Wood Is FSC Certified
By Ecological Internet's <a href="http://www.rainforestportal.org/">Rainforest Portal</a> <img alt="Greenpeace can't have it both ways on primary rainforest logging - either for or against" src="http://www.rainforestportal.org/issues/img/gp_ken_barbie.jpg" width="125" height="125" class="floatRight" /><a href="http://www.rainforestportal.org/shared/alerts/sendsm.aspx?id=gp_fsc">TAKE ACTION HERE NOW!</a> Greenpeace's quirky new rainforest campaign [<a href="http://www.rainforestportal.org/shared/search/welcome.aspx?searchtext=greenpeace%20rainforest%20campaign">search</a>] says Ken is leaving Barbie (Mattel's dolls) because of rainforest destruction, yet they leave the door open for "certified" primary rainforest paper pulp for toy packaging. Ecological Internet will not accept an outcome from Greenpeace USA's Barbie campaign that includes FSC certified papers from Indonesia's primary rainforests [<a href="http://www.rainforestportal.org/shared/search/welcome.aspx?searchtext=FSC%20primary%20rainforest%20paper%20Indonesia">search</a>]. Let Greenpeace and Mattel - manufacturers of the Barbie and Ken dolls, which Greenpeace USA alleges contains rainforest pulp in its packaging - know that paper derived from primary rainforests and certified by Forest Stewardship Council is not ecologically sustainable. Greenpeace must be encouraged to resign from FSC greenwash; and work to end primary forest logging, protect and restore standing old forests, for local and global advancement and ecology. 

ALERT! Papua New Guinea: Push for Commission of Inquiry into Illegal Rainforest Logging/Oil Palm Land Grabs
By Ecological Internet's <a href="http://www.rainforestportal.org/">Rainforest Portal</a> <img alt="Time to end rainforest logging in Papua New Guinea and the world" src="http://www.rainforestportal.org/issues/img/oilpalm_png.jpg" width="125" height="125" class="floatRight" /><a href="http://www.rainforestportal.org/shared/alerts/sendsm.aspx?id=png_oilpalm">TAKE ACTION HERE NOW!</a> Papua New Guinea (PNG) has some of the worlds largest rainforests but sadly industrial logging and oil palm [<a href="http://www.rainforestportal.org/shared/search/welcome.aspx?searchtext=png%20logging%20oil%20palm">search</a>] are booming. Special Agriculture and Business Leases covering 5.2 million hectares (12.8 million acres) have been granted 74 times by the PNG government over recent years, skirting forestry laws and allowing clearcuts of primary rainforests on customary land, for oil palm which may or may not get planted. There is huge concern that SABL leases were improperly executed and will result in large scale logging without providing agricultural development. Only an independent commission of inquiry as promised by the acting Prime Minister and supported by local NGOs, but still not yet formally convened can clean up PNGs latest rainforest land grab mess. DISCUSS THIS ALERT: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/ecointernet">http://www.facebook.com/ecointernet</a> & <a href="http://www.rainforestportal.org/issues/">http://www.rainforestportal.org/issues/</a> *** Ecological Internet is now 35% to our goal of $40,000 to continue our cutting edge grassroots global ecology sustaining campaigns, having raised $13,899 from 75 donors. This fund-raiser will continue until the goal is met, so please donate what you can afford to help EIs campaign to end primary forest logging after sending the alert or here: <a href="http://www.rainforestportal.org/shared/donate/">http://www.rainforestportal.org/shared/donate/</a> Your donation is being doubled by a matching grant, and there are several ways to send a gift listed on the web page, including setting up recurrent tithes! 

ALERT! Dear President Obama: All We Are Saying Is Give Peace and Ecology a Chance
From <a href="http://www.newearthrising.org/">New Earth Rising</a>, project of Ecological Internet (EI) Contact: Dr. Glen Barry, President, Ecological Internet <a href="mailto:glenbarry@ecologicalinternet.org">glenbarry@ecologicalinternet.org</a> <img alt="Please Support New Earth Rising: The Book" src="http://www.ecoearth.info/blog/img/hippie_peace.jpg" width ="125" class="floatRight" /> <a href="http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/alerts/sendsm.aspx?id=peace_and_ecology">TAKE ACTION NOW!</a> The Human Family Says End the Wars, Bring American Boys and Girls Home, Fight Ecocide: It is time for President Obama to recommit America to the rule of international law; and begin demobilizing to realize a peace dividend for global ecology, human rights and needs, and worker equity. Again! End the wars, fight ecocide!