ACTION ALERT PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY! Protest Australia's Continued Ancient Forest Logging in the Face of Abrupt Climate Change
By Climate Ark & Forests.org, projects of Ecological Internet http://www.climateark.org/ and http://forests.org/ April 8, 2008 TAKE ACTION Australia's new "climate friendly" government preaches global forest protection for climate benefits internationally, while continuing to industrially clear its own native primary forests in Tasmania and elsewhere, and this unseemly hypocrisy must end http://www.climateark.org/alerts/send.asp?id=australia_tasmania_climate Australia continues to industrially clear their last native ancient forests, even as their government promotes forest protection internationally to combat climate change. Australia's new government led by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has ratified Kyoto, appears genuinely committed to global climate change policy, and speaks often of how Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and the world must protect primary forests to solve global climate change. Yet in an act of unseemly doublespeak, the country that is perhaps most impacted by climate change continues to log its last centuries old trees found in ancient forest ecosystems vital for holding both carbon and water. Why is forest protection a good idea internationally but not for Australia's much reduced and climate impacted natural habitats? Australia's new government must be called upon to stop their hypocrisy and end logging of their own old growth forests as a keystone response to climate change, biodiversity loss and ecosystem sustainability. TAKE ACTION NOW: http://www.climateark.org/alerts/send.asp?id=australia_tasmania_climate DISCUSS ALERT: http://www.climateark.org/blog/2008/04/alert_protest_australias_conti.asp P.S. The South Korea alert to which you will be forwarded has been updated with nearly 100 more target emails. Please send that alert as well. --- You are subscribed to ecological_internet as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Before unsubscribing, please consider modifying your list profile at: http://www.ecoearth.info/subscribe/[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or click here: http://email.ecoearth.info/u?id=84041H&n=T&c=F&l=ecological_internet To subscribe, send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or visit here: http://www.ecoearth.info/subscribe/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
