Raping thePlanet; Screwing our Kids
The World Bank-WWF Forest Alliance promotes and supports commercial
harvest of the world's remaining old-growth and other endangered forests.
If the Alliance is successful in further expanding industrial forestry in
the world's remaining ancient forest wildlands such as the Amazon, Congo
and Papua New Guinea; these massive ecosystem engines - responsible for
climate, hydrology, soils, biodiversity and meeting local development
needs - will cease to exist as large, operable wholes. The World Bank may
be beyond reform, but WWF International and affiliates should know better.
Most recently, Kathy Fuller, President of WWF-USA and Alcoa aluminum
Board Member, benefited from the fraudulent environmental license for the
Barra Grande dam project in Brazil - which will result in widespread
clearing of highly endangered virgin araucaria forests. In recent years
WWF's various forest conservation campaigns have also 1) negotiated with
the Malaysian timber mafia to certify their rapacious and often illegal
pillage of large, ancient rainforests; 2) undermined local efforts to end
old-growth logging for paper chips in Tasmania, Australia; 3) initiated
illegal logging of Papua New Guinea mangroves; and 4) failed to support
small and medium scaled community based certified eco-forestry to Forest
Stewardship Council (FSC) or superior standards in the world's remaining
ancient forests. The Alliance justifies its support for widespread
large-scale industrial logging of ancient forests by implying that since
many if not most of these forests are going to be logged, cleared, and
burned anyway, that the best we can hope to do is make them into tree
farms. Yes, first time logging of old-growth shrouded landscapes does
irreparably diminish their ecological integrity; skewing species
assemblages, and making for future depauperate, sick and humanized forest
landscapes. The Alliance's myth of sustainable forestry in primary
forests is a flawed vision, threatening to convert the world's last
magnificent ancient rainforests into tree plantations. Forests.org's
network makes two demands of WWF. Kathy Fuller is asked to resign as
President of WWF-USU, after commencing a review of the World Bank/WWF
Alliance's efforts to promote industrial logging in the World's last
old-growth forests.
TAKE ACTION: http://forests.org/action/wwf/
harvest of the world's remaining old-growth and other endangered forests.
If the Alliance is successful in further expanding industrial forestry in
the world's remaining ancient forest wildlands such as the Amazon, Congo
and Papua New Guinea; these massive ecosystem engines - responsible for
climate, hydrology, soils, biodiversity and meeting local development
needs - will cease to exist as large, operable wholes. The World Bank may
be beyond reform, but WWF International and affiliates should know better.
Most recently, Kathy Fuller, President of WWF-USA and Alcoa aluminum
Board Member, benefited from the fraudulent environmental license for the
Barra Grande dam project in Brazil - which will result in widespread
clearing of highly endangered virgin araucaria forests. In recent years
WWF's various forest conservation campaigns have also 1) negotiated with
the Malaysian timber mafia to certify their rapacious and often illegal
pillage of large, ancient rainforests; 2) undermined local efforts to end
old-growth logging for paper chips in Tasmania, Australia; 3) initiated
illegal logging of Papua New Guinea mangroves; and 4) failed to support
small and medium scaled community based certified eco-forestry to Forest
Stewardship Council (FSC) or superior standards in the world's remaining
ancient forests. The Alliance justifies its support for widespread
large-scale industrial logging of ancient forests by implying that since
many if not most of these forests are going to be logged, cleared, and
burned anyway, that the best we can hope to do is make them into tree
farms. Yes, first time logging of old-growth shrouded landscapes does
irreparably diminish their ecological integrity; skewing species
assemblages, and making for future depauperate, sick and humanized forest
landscapes. The Alliance's myth of sustainable forestry in primary
forests is a flawed vision, threatening to convert the world's last
magnificent ancient rainforests into tree plantations. Forests.org's
network makes two demands of WWF. Kathy Fuller is asked to resign as
President of WWF-USU, after commencing a review of the World Bank/WWF
Alliance's efforts to promote industrial logging in the World's last
old-growth forests.
TAKE ACTION: http://forests.org/action/wwf/
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