Peru Army into Amazon As Tribes Blockade Rivers and Roads
Peru's army is poised to deploy in the Amazon rainforest [ark] to lift blockades across rivers and roads by indigenous people opposed to oil, gas, logging and mining projects. The Peruvian rainforest [search] is the largest swath of Amazon outside Brazil. Ecology and culture are at stake as government plans to exploit 70% of the rainforest for oil, gas and timber.
In the past two years the government has signed deals with multinationals to open swaths of rainforest, including a £1.3bn agreement last month with the Anglo-French oil company Perenco. About 65 tribes have mobilised 30,000 people to disrupt roads, waterways and pipelines, leading to skirmishes with police. Up to 41 vessels serving energy companies are stuck along jungle rivers, paralysed by the protests. These brave souls need and deserve our support.
By Rainforest Rescue with Ecological Internet
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how can we fund the indigenous tribes? prayers of support are one thing but actually practically helping them on the material plane would be useful at this time.
Posted by: snakeappletree | May 18, 2009 10:45 AM
Essential to the existence of mankind, is to replenish our forests. Once deforestation begins in the mountain tops, adiabatic cooling retreats. Absent the trees, the earth heats up, where as, it had kept a constant 70-75 degrees, Our ecosystem changes; forcing drout. Without the trees, oxygen is forced out by the shaking of earth, forcing the breaking ground under the ice burgs to melt. Much like a dog shakes,the earth also shakes. Nature comes to reclaim its' own. Under diverse conditions, when oxygen is low and emmissions are high, carbon dioxcide needed by the trees,is not enough to sustain much needed oxygen for earth. By one degree the ice burg melts, with the release of oxygen, "Mother Nature claims its' own." For every tree gone, we should plant 5.
Posted by: Pamela Zander | October 10, 2009 11:23 PM