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From: "Ecological Internet" <[log in to unmask]>
To: "Betty Levene" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 6:28 PM
Subject: CLIMATE ALERT! No to Copenhagen 'Carbon Logging': GOOD REDD Fully 
Protects and Restores Old Forests as a Global Climatic Imperative


> ACTION ALERT                    PLEASE SHARE WIDELY!
>
> No to Copenhagen 'Carbon Logging'
> GOOD REDD Fully Protects and Restores Old Forests as a Global Climatic 
> Imperative
>
> By ClimateArk Climate Change Portal http://www.climateark.org/ -
>  a project of Ecological Internet
>    November 5, 2009
>
> Copenhagen climate talks must not provide 'Reduced Emissions from 
> Deforestation and Degradation' (REDD) carbon market funds for old, natural 
> forest logging, or for conversion of natural or semi-natural forests and 
> other ecosystems to plantations. Ending deforestation and degradation of 
> old and relatively ecologically intact primary and old growth forest 
> ecosystems, and the ecological restoration of late-successional old growth 
> forests, are keystone responses to maintaining global climate, 
> biodiversity, water and ecosystems.
>
> TAKE ACTION HERE NOW:
> http://www.climateark.org/shared/alerts/send.aspx?id=protect_old_forests
>
> Indications are that UN Copenhagen climate talks will allow selective 
> logging and plantation establishment in primary and old-growth forests as 
> a means to "fight" climate change. In draft texts, European and African 
> negotiators have removed safeguards against the conversion of natural 
> forests to forest plantations, and language ensuring first time industrial 
> logging of primary rainforests are excluded from carbon finance has still 
> not been included. This despite the fact no single international 
> ecological policy initiative would protect global climate (and 
> biodiversity and ecosystems) more effectively than protecting and 
> restoring old forests wherever possible.
>
> Old forest logging must end -- to maintain climatic stability and achieve 
> global ecological sustainability. This requires a rejection of the myth of 
> "Sustainable Forest Management" in old forests, acknowledging that 
> fully-intact, natural old forests both remove and store long-term, far 
> more carbon than natural forests that are selectively logged or replaced 
> by plantations.  Timber industry propaganda -- claiming logging ancient 
> forests somehow saves them -- has been greatly aided by large NGOs like 
> Rainforest Action Network and Greenpeace, who continuously greenwash 
> unknown amounts of Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) "certification" of old 
> forest logging as desirable and even sustainable.
>
> MORE INFORMATION AND TAKE ACTION NOW:
> http://www.climateark.org/shared/alerts/send.aspx?id=protect_old_forests
>
> DISCUSS THIS ALERT:
> http://www.climateark.org/blog/2009/11/by-ecological-internets-climat.asp
>
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