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Naturschutz: Bundestag entschied gegen Urwaldschutzgesetz (19.10.06)

Der Bundestag lehnte heute mehrheitlich ein Gesetz zur Rettung der letzten Urwälder der Erde ab. Der Gesetzesantrag sah vor, den Besitz und den Handel von Holzprodukten aus Urwaldzerstörung, die nach Deutschland importiert werden, zu verbieten und zu kontrollieren. Greenpeace hatte Anfang 2004 mit einem ersten Entwurf zu einem Urwaldschutzgesetz die parlamentarische Diskussion ins Rollen gebracht. Die Schwarz-Rot Koalition habe laut Greenpeace bis heute nichts im Rahmen der 2007 bevorstehenden deutschen EU-Präsidentschaft unternommen, um in Europa ein Importverbot von Urwaldholz durchzusetzen.

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Posted 10/14/06

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Charleston, South Carolina (US)--This morning, the Charleston front of the South to South solidarity campaign went to the Double Tree Hotel to continue this weeks protest around the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO). They used guerrilla theater to call for a halt of deforestation and expose the social impacts in Chile, Brazil and the US South caused by timber plantations. The campaign also demands a global ban on the new threat of genetically engineered (GE) trees.

"Short term profits at the expense of future generations of all species is not acceptable" declared Mother Earth, to the crowd of scientists and corporate executives. People dressed as a GE tree, an ArborGen CEO, and forest critters, showed the dangers of GE trees, while a hazmat team secured the contaminated area.

The industry conference was organized by the International Union of Forest Research Organizations and co-sponsored by Summerville, SC-based ArborGen. ArborGen leads the world in research into genetically engineered trees and the IUFRO will be organizing another similar conference next week in Chile.

ArborGen works in both in the US South and in Brazil. Massive tree plantations in Chile and Brazil have forced both the Mapuche of Chile and the Guarani and Tupinikum of Brazil off of their land. Plantations decimate huge areas of forest, cause sickness in nearby villages and increase global warming. Using genetically engineered trees will only worsen these impacts.

"We are in an ecological crises now! Climate change is here and deforestation is a massive contributor to this rolling catastrophe," said Jean Wald. "It's too late to tinker with bogus solutions. Plantation forestry is a serious problem and GE trees will make it that much worse. Add the social consequences of plantations and there is no more justification for them."

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Informant: binstock

09.10.06

Die Umweltorganisation Rettet den Regenwald (RdR) hat Pläne von RWE npower scharf kritisiert, ein Kraftwerk im britischen Kent künftig mit Palmöl zu betreiben. Dadurch werde die Klimakatastrophe forciert, so Verbandsvorsitzende Reinhard Behrend. "Solche Projekte steigern die Nachfrage nach Palmöl. Als Folge werden in Südostasien weitere Regenwälder zerstört, um Platz für neue Plantagen zu schaffen." Palmöl werde vor allem im Tieflandregenwald von Indonesien und Malaysia angebaut. Die dortigen Torfwälder seien gigantische Kohlendioxid-Speicher. Regelmäßig würden riesige Waldflächen abgefackelt, um Platz für neue Palmöl-Plantagen zu schaffen. Durch die Waldbrände allein in Indonesien würden in manchen Jahren mehr als eine Milliarde Tonnen Kohlendioxid frei gesetzt, etwa 15 Prozent der weltweit von Menschen verursachten Emissionen mit Kohlendioxid.

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ACTION ALERT

By Climate Ark & Rainforest Portal, Projects of Ecological Internet, Inc.

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October 8, 2006

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Let Kyoto Protocol Delegates Know You Demand Immediate Action to Stop Rainforest Fires and Peatland Agricultural Conversion https://www.climateark.org/alerts/send.asp?id=indonesia_peatland

On November 6th governments from all over the world will be meeting in Nairobi for the year's most important United Nations climate change talks. To date international policy discussions have largely ignored the destruction and burning of Southeast Asia’s rainforest peatlands. These wet, swampy rainforests are drained to be cleared for agricultural plantations, and as they dry their peat filled soils are highly susceptible to long burning, carbon and methane rich fires. Peatland fires have for years been one of the largest sources of greenhouse gas emissions - accounting for the equivalent of some 15% of all global CO2 emissions from fossil fuels. Hundreds of peat and forest fires are once again burning across Borneo, Sumatra and Java. Unless the international community acts quickly, Southeast Asia’s emissions of carbon and methane from burning peatlands alone may lead to dangerous climate change including massive sea level rises and mass extinctions. Expansion of oil palm plantations, illegal logging and timber plantations have been identified as the main drivers of the destruction.

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https://www.rainforestportal.org/issues/2006/09/no_more_ancient_forest_logging.asp

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Informant: Richard Harvey

https://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/volksini_waldverkauf_liste.pdf

Unterschriftenliste "Initiative gegen den Waldverkauf". Die Landesregierung in Schleswig-Holstein will den gesamten Landeswald in Schleswig - Holstein verkaufen, z. T. an Shell. Anbei eine Unterschriftenliste. Bitte Unterschriften sammeln und an die angegebene Adresse schicken. Viele Grüße!"

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What’s it take to save the forest?
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Forests in northern nations such as Russia and Canada are worth $250 billion a year because of services they provide by purifying water or soaking up greenhouse gases, a researcher said on Tuesday. Mark Anielski, an ecological economist, urged governments to follow suit and place value on natural services rather than go on treating them as free.

https://www.truthout.org/issues_06/092706EB.shtml