Urgent action alert-- palm oil and orangutans

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Dear Friends of the Orangutan,

Please go to and sign this very importantant action

alert regarding

palm oil

and the destruction of orangutan habitat. If you have

a website, please

provide a link.

Kindest regards,

Michelle

 

 

 

Michelle Desilets

Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation UK

" Primates Helping Primates "

www.savetheorangutan.org.uk

www.savetheorangutan.info

Please sign our petition to rescue over 100 smuggled

orangutans in

Thailand:

http://www.thePetitionSite.com/takeaction/822035733

 

 

 

 

 

> " Dr. Glen Barry "

<GlenBarry

>Michelle Desilets <bosf_uk

>FORESTS ALERT: Resend and Appeal for

Biofuels Rainforest

Alert

>Participation

>Sat, 01 Oct 2005 08:18:28 -0500

>

>Colleagues,

>I am very concerned about the rate of participation

in alerts,

including

>the

>one below. It is essential that those receiving

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time

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others.

Traditionally

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send any given

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>to

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>below. These are critical environmental alerts and

routinely together

we

>achieve real conservation outcomes. But this

requires a core group

that

>displays

>continued devotion. Please, please lets make the

following first time

>campaign

>to stop soya and oil palm for biofuels from

destroying rainforests - a

huge

>and

>growing threat that WE are the first to highlight and

campaign upon -

a

>major

>victory. I ask that each recipient try to send most

protest emails

with

>which

>they are in agreement, and routinely identify others

to join our

network.

>Lets

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climate action

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And forward

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>Warm regards, Glen

>

>

>ACTION ALERT

>Climate Conundrum as Biofuel Threatens Rainforests

>

>By Forests.org and ClimateArk, projects of Ecological

Internet, Inc.

>September 29, 2005

>

>TAKE ACTION

> Europe's rush to oil palm and soya biomass as

source of renewable

energy

> unsustainable

> http://forests.org/action/alert.asp?id=biofuel

>

>To meet Kyoto protocol commitments, various European

and other

governments

>are encouraging the use of biomass as fuel (biofuel)

in transport and

>electricity. Biofuels are mostly carbon neutral, and

switching from

>fossil fuels to biodiesel is promoted as a solution

to climate change.

>Rainforests will be threatened by increased demand

for agricultural

>products to be raised on once forested lands, and by

use of forest

biomass

>as a fuel. An unregulated rush to biofuels will lead

to more natural

>rainforest loss and fragmentation, increased

pressures upon endangered

>primary forests, and more monoculture, herbicide

laden and genetically

>modified tree plantations. Two important tropical

crops suitable as

>biofuels include palm oil, grown mostly in Southeast

Asia, and soya

oil

>largely from South America. Both are already amongst

the world's

major

>causes of tropical forest destruction and further

stimulation of their

>markets will surely result in massive and

irreversible new losses of

>tropical rainforests and savannas. Largely to meet

demand for biofuel,

the

>Indonesian government announced in July 2005 the

development of the

>largest palm oil plantation in the world which will

clear the " Heart

of

>Borneo " . This will further deteriorate ecosystems

that provide

habitats

>for the already endangered Orang Utan and many other

species. There

>exists an opportunity to influence European imports

of oil palm in

>particular, as the European Commission is currently

studying the

matter.

>Clearly Europe and world should invest more strongly

in energy from

wind

>and sun, not in carelessly creating, stimulating and

subsidizing new

>international palm oil and soya export markets.

Western countries must

do

>better than destroying tropical rainforests to meet

their Kyoto goals.

>Take action now at:

http://forests.org/action/alert.asp?id=biofuel

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Michelle Desilets

BOS UK

www.savetheorangutan.org.uk

www.savetheorangutan.info

" Primates Helping Primates "

 

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http://www.thePetitionSite.com/takeaction/822035733

 

 

 

 

 

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