Fw: RAINFOREST ALERT: China Olympics 2008: Destroying Papua's Ancient Rainforests

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April 30, 2006 13:33

RAINFOREST ALERT: China Olympics 2008: Destroying Papua's Ancient

Rainforests

 

 

> ACTION ALERT FORWARD WIDELY!

>

> China Olympics 2008: Destroying Papua's Ancient Rainforests to

> Raise the Olympic Torch

>

> By Rainforest Portal, project of Ecological Internet, Inc.

> http://www.rainforestportal.org/

> April 30, 2006

>

> TAKE ACTION

> Protest China's Plundering of Ancient Indonesian Rainforests to

> Build 2008 Olympic Facilities

>

> http://www.rainforestportal.org/alerts/send.asp?id=olympic_timber

>

> With two-and-a-half years to go until the start of the 2008

> Olympics to be held in Beijing China, the Chinese government has

> recently placed a $1 billion rush order for endangered

> rainforest timbers from Indonesia's Papua province to be used in

> construction for the games. A proposed timber processing factory

> would industrially harvest 800,000 cubic meters of the famous

> and threatened merbau (intsia spp) rainforest timbers, to be

> exported to China for the construction of sports facilities.

> Indonesia's Papua province on the island of New Guinea has some

> of the world's last remaining large intact rainforests. These

> rainforests are millions of years old, contain untold

> biodiversity and evolutionary history, and provide critical

> regional and global ecosystem processes. An investment of this

> size will only serve to legitimize and further fuel illegal,

> highly unsustainable, and ecologically devastating logging,

> ensuring the destruction of this critically threatened ancient

> rainforest. It is against the Olympic ideals of bringing " people

> together in peace to respect universal moral principles " when

> the events are housed in ancient rainforest timbers of

> questionable legality and morality. Please insist the Chinese

> government commit to hosting an " old-growth, ancient forest

> free " Olympics. Please take action now at

> http://www.rainforestportal.org/alerts/send.asp?id=olympic_timber

>

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