Guest guest Posted October 30, 2006 Report Share Posted October 30, 2006 1 Southeast Asia's Peat Fires and Global Warming By Ecological Internet and Biofuelwatch (Madison, WI, USA) - Hundreds of peat and forest fires are once again burning across Indonesian Borneo and Sumatra, releasing vast quantities of greenhouse gases and destroying the livelihoods of local communities and rainforest habitats of countless species. Those annual fires release as much carbon as 15% of all emissions from burning fossil fuels worldwide. Demand urgent international action at the forthcoming UN Climate Change Conference in Nairobi http://www.climateark.org/alerts/send.asp?id=indonesia_peatland 2 An Appeal for South India's Wild Elephants (Forests.org, a project of Ecological Internet, Inc.) http://forests.org/ and http://www.ecoearth.info/ Their survival depends upon maintaining and establishing corridors between large habitats http://www.ecoearth.info/alerts/send.asp?id=india Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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