By Ecological Internet’s Rainforest Portal TAKE ACTION HERE NOW! Plans are to build a highway through Alto Purus – Peru’s largest national park – comprised of vital intact Amazonian rainforest ecosystems and inhabited by at least two ‘uncontacted’ indigenous tribes [search]. The Alto Purus protected rainforest in south-east Peru is an area of incredible biodiversity [...]

Rainforest Action Network – Environmentalism with teeth.

By Ecological Internet’s Climate Ark Climate Change Portal TAKE ACTION HERE NOW! Geoengineering is the proposed large scale manipulation of Earth’s oceans, soils, sunlight and atmosphere with the intent of combating climate change. With no mandate, the UN’s International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) [search] has begun talks on funding geoengineering research [search]. Past adoption [...]

By Ecological Internet’s Rainforest Portal TAKE ACTION HERE NOW! The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) [search] brand gets 70% of its timber and pulp by greenwashing current and planned destruction of 130,000,000 hectares of primary rainforests and other old forests – an area the size of South Africa. This week – at FSC’s tri-annual General Assembly [...]

Rainforest Action Network – Environmentalism with teeth.

Rainforest Action Network – Environmentalism with teeth.

SAY NO TO KWILA Protest to stop Mitre 10 Selling Kwila Furniture­ Where: Ponsonby Mitre 10, 272 Richmond Road. Opposite Woolworths. When: 12pm-1pm, Saturday October 31st 2009 Organised by Rainforest Action and the Indonesia Human Rights Committee. Over the last year the BBQ Factory, Harvey Norman, Design Warehouse and Placemakers have all committed to phasing [...]

TAKE ACTION HERE NOW! The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) and its members, certifiers and suppliers must commit to ending the certification of primary forest timbers [search], falsely implying it is sustainable to log 500 year old trees for toilet paper, lawn furniture and other consumer items. Please participate in EI’s on-going global campaign to end [...]

On Thursday 27 March activists took to the windy streets of Wellington to tell TradeMe to stop allowing sales of Kwila. Here’s a report from the NZPA and some images from frogblog. With the message ‘Trade Me, not trade trees,’ 15 activists today challenged auction website Trade Me to stop the sale of illegally-logged kwila [...]

Stop sales of Kwila on TradeMe Date: Thursday, 27 May 2010 Time: 12:30 – 14:30 Location: Meet outside Te Papa before heading to the Trade Me Headquarters: 11 Cable St Join human rights and rainforest activists taking their campaign against the import of kwila to the Trade Me Headquarters: 11 Cable St, Wellington on Thursday [...]