UPDATED ACTION ALERT PLEASE SHARE WIDELY! PAPUA NEW GUINEA: Logging Violence and Corruption Flare in Ramu, Madangs Mighty Rainforests
By Rainforest Portal http://www.rainforestportal.org/ - a project of Ecological Internet February 6, 2010 TAKE ACTION NOW AND SHARE WITH FRIENDS: http://www.rainforestportal.org/shared/alerts/send.aspx?id=png_ramu_rh Local landowner initiated court case has shut down logging for two months. The PNG Forest Authority's review of the granting of the right to log to notorious Rimbunan Hijau of Malaysia in Ramu River valley expected soon. Industry and corrupt government officials pulling out all stops to re-grant permit to this violent and corrupt criminal-enterprise. Massive cash payments and brutal violence to intimidate communities resisting logging is rife. Yet local protest to logging continues to intensify in Madang, as do calls to end all industrial primary rainforest logging in PNG. MORE INFORMATION AND TAKE ACTION NOW: http://www.rainforestportal.org/shared/alerts/send.aspx?id=png_ramu_rh DISCUSS THIS ALERT: http://www.rainforestportal.org/issues/ --- You are subscribed to ecological_internet as [email protected]. Before unsubscribing, please consider modifying your list profile at: http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/subscribe/[email protected] To unsubscribe, send a blank email to [email protected] Or click here: http://email.ecoearth.info:81/u?id=84041H&n=T&c=F&l=ecological_internet To subscribe visit: http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/subscribe/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
