Rainforest Action Network – Environmentalism with teeth.

Rainforest Action Network – Environmentalism with teeth.

Rainforest Action Network – Environmentalism with teeth.

Rainforest Action Network – Environmentalism with teeth.

By Ecological Internet’s Rainforest Portal TAKE ACTION HERE NOW! Papua New Guinea (PNG) has some of the world’s largest rainforests but sadly industrial logging and oil palm [search] are booming. “Special Agriculture and Business Leases” covering 5.2 million hectares (12.8 million acres) have been granted 74 times by the PNG government over recent years, skirting [...]

Rainforest Action Network – Environmentalism with teeth.

By Earth’s Newsdesk, a project of Ecological Internet http://www.ecoearth.info/newsdesk/ CONTACT: Dr. Glen Barry, glenbarry@ecologicalinternet.org Ecological Internet calls for America’s largest and wealthiest rainforest protection organization to resign from the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) and finally end their shameful greenwash of primary forest logging. Until their enabling of the final industrial destruction of global rainforests stops, [...]

By Ecological Internet’s Rainforest Portal TAKE ACTION HERE NOW! 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 [...]

By Dr. Glen Barry, Ecological Internet Earth Meanders come from Earth’s Newsdesk Genuine and growing concern with their ongoing, publicly undefended support for Forest Stewardship Council “certified” primary forest logging – destroying an area two times the size of Texas – deleted, blocked and reported to Facebook as terms of use violations Greenpeace US and [...]

Madagascar’s transitional government last week reinstated a ban on rosewood logging [search] and exports, following prolonged and growing pressure over illegal logging of its national parks spearheaded by Ecological Internet. As reported by Mongabay, the decree (no. 2010-141) prohibits all exports of rosewood and precious timber for two to five years. With the export ban [...]