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Rainforest Portal's Expired "Earth Action Network Alerts"

Past rainforests alerts from Ecological Internet with updates -- here are current alerts

Stop the Forest Liars: "Certified" Old-Growth Rainforest Logging Does NOT Protect Biodiversity, Ecosystems or Climate

Outrageous support by big environmental groups for first-time industrial logging of primary and old-growth rainforest wildernesses based upon vague claims that FSC certification makes it sustainable, well-managed and now even "carbon positive" is a big lie and must end


Papua New Guinea's Woodlark Island Rainforests to Be Cleared for Oil Palm Agrofuels

The PNG government continues to approve rainforest destruction and diminishment even as they vocally seek to be paid with carbon market funds for their "protection"


Mayor Bloomberg: We Love New York, But Hate Your Government's Rainforest Destruction!

New York City is one of the biggest consumers of ancient rainforest timbers; and their use of tropical hardwoods must end to protect global climate, ecosystems and biodiversity


Protest Failed World Bank Congo Rainforest Policy and Proposed Ill-Conceived Forest Carbon Payments

Given revelations of misconduct in Democratic Republic of Congo's rainforests by the World Bank, their desire to administer global carbon payments for rainforest protection as a means to address climate change is suspect


Climate Protection Payments Must Avoid Deforestation of Ancient Rainforests AND Their Industrial Diminishment

Selective logging diminishes primary and old-growth forests' carbon stores, ecosystems, and biodiversity; and has no place in proposed carbon market payments for rainforest and climate protection


Stop Ocean City, New Jersey from Using Ancient Rainforest Timbers for Boardwalk Decking

An important precedent must be set that industrial logging of ancient forests, even if FSC "certified", must end

    Campaign Outcome:

    This alert was successful, the purchase was cancelled by the City Council. Local campaigners are now working to ensure the ban on use of tropical timbers in municipal construction is made permanent and such a situation does not arise again.


FSC and Big Green "Certified" Ancient Forest Logging Tragedy Worsens

Support for "certified" ancient rainforest logging crumbles further due to string of inappropriate and illegal certifications, most recently in Peru; and as Norway rejects FSC and all primary rainforest logging certification schemes


Protect Uganda's Mabira Rainforest Preserve from Sugar Production for Biofuel

Let the Ugandan government know rainforests and their ecological services including water, climate and biodiversity are more important than sugar which can be grown elsewhere


Greenpeace, Come Clean and Stop Supporting Ancient Rainforest Logging

There is no such thing as certified, sustainable logging of primary forests. Tell Greenpeace to release their suppressed report on industrial certified forestry, and to resign the chair and withdraw from the Forest Stewardship Council


Myth of "Certified, Sustainable Ancient Forest Logging" Threatens the World's Rainforests and Climate

Tell the World Bank, WWF and Greenpeace to stop aiding and abetting failed "sustainable" and "certified" forest management for the Congo Basin and elsewhere, and instead commit to End Ancient Rainforest Logging


Stop Malaysian Samling Group - Global Leaders in Rainforest Destruction

Destroyer of ancient rainforests and indigenous livelihoods from Malaysia to Guyana now a publicly listed company that along with its financiers is facing renewed international protest


Indonesia's Biofuel Expansion on Rainforest Peatlands to Accelerate Climate Change

Let the President know the world expects Indonesia to keep the Environment Minister's promise to tackle the root causes of rainforest fires and peatland drainage


Brazil Approves Deforestation of Important Amazon Reserve

The strength and permanence of protected status for ancient rainforests under Brazilian law is at stake


Europe Must End Their "Deforestation Biofuel" Energy Policy

Industrial biofuels threaten Rainforests and European land sustainability


Continue to Oppose Oil Production in Ecuador's Yasuni and Other National Parks

All of Ecuador's protected areas including all of Yasua must be strictly protected from oil and logging


Say No to Industrial Mining in French Guiana's Ancient Rainforests

Protected areas, water resources and indigenous peoples will all be devastated if French Government grants environmental approvals - decision expected soon!


Stop ANZ Bank Funding of Illegal Logging in Papua New Guinea

Insist leading Australian/New Zealand bank stop financing destruction of PNG's ancient rainforests by Malaysian loggers


Penan Logging Blockade Maintained, Malaysia Must Implement Permanent Protections

Insist Malaysian authorities respect native customary land rights and boundaries of Penan's last remaining ancestral rainforest reserves


Support Petition to Save Malaysia's Belum-Temengor Rainforests

Proposed National Park "Richest of the Rich" in Terms of Biodiversity and Ecosystems, Threatened by Logging


Chinese Olympic Committee Must Independently Prove Olympic Torch Not Burning World's Rainforests

Beijing Olympics 2008: Destroying Papua's Ancient Rainforests to Raise the Olympic Torch


Massive Gas Pipeline to Pierce the Amazon

Project will devastate South America's rainforests, water and climate


Panama Power Line Plan to Destroy Darien Gap Rainforest

Short sighted energy policy threatens regional ecosystem, security and indigenous rights


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