ALERT! Tell Old Forest Loggers and Apologists to End Primary Rainforest Logging
By Ecological Internet's Rainforest Portal
As world's forest protection policy glitterati meet in the Congo to finalize the final logging of much of Earth's large and contiguous rainforests; let loggers, governments, UN and NGOs supporting primary forest logging known that industrial forestry can never be ecologically sustainable. Achieving global ecological sustainability depends critically upon maintaining intact forest ecosystems, ending first time industrial primary logging and other industrial development. The best path to global forest sustainability is to protect all standing primary and old growth forests, helping them to expand, and be used standing by local communities to advance themselves through small scale community businesses including ecotourism, eco-forestry, carbon payments, etc. It is simply unacceptable ecologically that the fate of Earth's last old forests continue to be first time industrial logging albeit with FSC certification, NGO approval and REDD+ funding. The second email for the alert takes Rainforest Action Network further to task for refusing to acknowledge and discuss concerns with their full-on support for primary forest logging through their FSC membership.
See related facebook page:
Greenpeace and RAN Out of FSC Primary Forest
http://www.facebook.com/oldforests
