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Category: Rainforest Conservation

Amazon Standing

Posted on February 26, 2020August 25, 2021 By Dr. Glen Barry No Comments on Amazon Standing

Financed by the Other Amazon Paying for Its Name It should be possible to pay to fully protect the Amazon rainforest while meeting local people’s needs. The best place to start is for online Amazon Inc. to pay on a sustained basis for its long overdue unpaid expropriation of the Amazon name. Transforming Amazon Inc….

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Earth Meanders Essay, Forest Conservation, Rainforest Conservation, Top Picks

Global Ecological Restoration: The Leaves of the Tree Will Heal the Nations

Posted on January 20, 2020August 25, 2021 By Dr. Glen Barry 1 Comment on Global Ecological Restoration: The Leaves of the Tree Will Heal the Nations

“Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb down the middle of the great street of the city. On each side of the river stood the tree of life, bearing twelve crops of fruit, yielding its fruit…

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Earth Meanders Essay, Forest Conservation, Rainforest Conservation, Top Picks

On Amazon Fires: It’s the Ecology Stupid

Posted on September 8, 2019August 25, 2021 By Dr. Glen Barry 2 Comments on On Amazon Fires: It’s the Ecology Stupid

Global Ecological Sustainability depends critically upon ending the logging and burning of old forests and letting them recover, expand and reconnect “Each act of cutting and burning old trees diminishes and contributes to the pending collapse of the biosphere… The cutting and burning of old forests ends, as a prominent aspect of the coming Great…

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Earth Meanders Essay, Forest Conservation, Rainforest Conservation, Top Picks

VICTORY! Thrilling Rainforest Victory for Karawari Indigenous Cave Art, the Great Nation of Papua New Guinea, and EcoInternet

Posted on January 22, 2015August 25, 2021 By Dr. Glen Barry No Comments on VICTORY! Thrilling Rainforest Victory for Karawari Indigenous Cave Art, the Great Nation of Papua New Guinea, and EcoInternet

Australian Broadcasting Corporation media coverage – So incredibly gratifying to be called out by renowned anthropologist Nancy Sullivan – simply an amazing woman – for having helped protect ancient cave art and surrounding rainforests. Much work to be done to make Karawari a conservation area. (Honolulu, Hawaii) – EcoInternet is thrilled to announce that our…

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Love in the Time of Ebola

Posted on October 21, 2014August 25, 2021 By Dr. Glen Barry No Comments on Love in the Time of Ebola

Overpopulation, ecosystem loss, climate change, and Ebola itself are all growing exponentially. The human family must come together now to stop Ebola in West Africa or risk a global pandemic that could potentially kill billions – even as we commit post-Ebola to solving the disease’s root causes of rainforest loss, poverty, war and inequitable overpopulation….

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Earth Meanders Essay, General Sustainability, Rainforest Conservation, Top Picks

EcoInternet Hails Victory Protecting Virunga National Park and Gorillas from SOCO Oil

Posted on June 10, 2014August 25, 2021 By Dr. Glen Barry 6 Comments on EcoInternet Hails Victory Protecting Virunga National Park and Gorillas from SOCO Oil

Vital precedents set that rainforests and oil don’t mix, global people power can protect local ecosystems, and all remaining old-growth forests must be protected from industrial development By EcoInternet – http://EcoInternet.org/ British oil company SOCO International has cancelled plans to explore for oil in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Virunga National Park [1]. EcoInternet (then…

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Press Releases/Announcements, Rainforest Conservation, Top Picks

EARTH MEANDERS: The Great Rainforest Heist

Posted on April 16, 2012August 25, 2021 By Dr. Glen Barry No Comments on EARTH MEANDERS: The Great Rainforest Heist

How environmental groups gone bad greenwash logging Earth's last primary old forests
Essay by Dr. Glen Barry, EcoInternet
Earth Meanders come from Earth's Newsdesk


Summary
Most major environmental NGOs – including Greenpeace and the Rainforest Action Network in particular – are deeply involved with efforts to “sustainably” industrially log Earth's last primary and old-growth forests. Through their membership in the Forest Stewardship Council, which is heavily dependent upon old forest logging to meet market demand, NGOs greenwash old-growth logging across hundreds of millions of acres, and the nascent Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation program will finance a major expansion. As the science indicates (see Terrestrial Ecosystem Loss and Biosphere Collapse for exhaustive review), industrial primary and old-growth forest logging is never ecologically sustainable, and loss of old forests threatens local livelihoods, and local and global ecological sustainability. Old-growth forest logging will never end as long as environmental NGOs continue their greenwash.


The world's pre-eminent environmental organizations, widely perceived as the leading advocates for rainforests and old growth, have for decades been actively promoting primary forest logging [search]. Groups like Greenpeace, Rainforest Action Network (RAN), The Nature Conservancy, Conservation International, World Wide Fund for Nature/World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and the Environmental Defense Fund actively promote industrially logging Earth's last old forests. Through their support of the existing "Forest Stewardship Council" (FSC), and/or planned compromised "Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation" (REDD), they are at the forefront of destroying ancient forests for disposable consumer items -; claiming it is "sustainable forest management" and "carbon forestry".
Rainforest movement corruption is rampant as these big bureaucratic, corporatist NGOs conspire to log Earth's last primary rainforests and other old growth forests. Collectively the "NGO Old Forest Sell-Outs" are greenwashing FSC's destruction of over 300,000,000 acres of old forests, destroying an area of primary rainforests and other old forests the size of South Africa (two times the size of Texas)! FSC and its members have built a massive market for continued business as usual industrially harvested primary forest timbers -; with minor, cosmetic changes -; certifying as acceptable murdering old forests and their life for consumption of products ranging from toilet paper to lawn furniture. Some 70% of FSC products contain primary forest timbers, and as little as 10% of any product must be from certified sources.

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RELEASE: Today as Rainforest Action Network and Awardee Naomi Klein REVEL, Primary Rainforests Continue to Be Destroyed in Their Names

Posted on October 12, 2011August 25, 2021 By Dr. Glen Barry No Comments on RELEASE: Today as Rainforest Action Network and Awardee Naomi Klein REVEL, Primary Rainforests Continue to Be Destroyed in Their Names

By Earth's Newsdesk, a project of EcoInternet
http://www.ecoearth.info/newsdesk/
CONTACT: Dr. Glen Barry, glenbarry@ecologicalinternet.org

– Once again EcoInternet's true global rainforest action network questions the dominate paradigm that primary rainforests exist to be industrially logged [search]. The Rainforest Action Network and Forest Stewardship Council are first time industrial primary forest logging which must end immediately. Standing, intact primary rainforests and all old forests must be fully protected from certified and carbon forestry, and restored to continue powering global ecosystems and advance local communities.
(Earth) – Today San Francisco based Rainforest Action Network (RAN) will throw yet another swanky celebrity filled party to REVEL and congratulate themselves for logging primary forests to protect them, and to raise further money for such “rainforest protection”. RAN continues to hold to the myth that primary rainforests – 500 year old trees in millions of year old ecosystems – should be “sustainably managed” for consumption such as toilet paper and lawn furniture. Noted author Naomi Klein will be RAN's guest of honor, receive an award, and has been vocal in defending the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) brand of disaster capitalism.

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RELEASE/VICTORY: Papua New Guinea Begins Commission of Inquiry into Rainforest Land Grabs

Posted on September 1, 2011August 25, 2021 By Dr. Glen Barry No Comments on RELEASE/VICTORY: Papua New Guinea Begins Commission of Inquiry into Rainforest Land Grabs

By Earth's Newsdesk and the Rainforest Portal, projects of EcoInternet
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CONTACT: Dr. Glen Barry, glenbarry@ecologicalinternet.org

Once again EcoInternet's true global rainforest action network contributes to questioning and obstructing the dominate paradigm that primary rainforests exist to be industrially logged

Papua New Guinea has launched a Commission of Inquiry into foreign land grabs of pristine, indigenous owned primary rainforests for clearcut logging and supposed oil palm development. PNG has the world's third largest rainforests [search], but sadly industrial logging and oil palm are booming, and large, intact old rainforest ecosystems are dwindling fast. An entrenched and voracious Malaysian timber-mafia has until now virtually owned the government and the nation's rainforests.
"Special Agriculture and Business Leases" (SABL) covering 5.2 million hectares (12.8 million acres) were granted 74 times in recent years by former Prime Minister Michael Somare. These agriculture projects skirted forestry laws and customary land ownership, allowing clearcuts of primary rainforests on customary land without consent, for oil palm which may or may not get planted. Local national led NGOs such as the highly successful ACT NOW![1] and others expressed concern that SABL leases were improperly executed and would result in large scale logging without providing agricultural development.

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Rainforest Conservation

RELEASE/VICTORY: Ecuador Sets Major Rainforest and Climate Protection Precedent

Posted on July 31, 2010August 25, 2021 By Dr. Glen Barry 12 Comments on RELEASE/VICTORY: Ecuador Sets Major Rainforest and Climate Protection Precedent

By Earth's Newsdesk and the Rainforest Portal, projects of EcoInternet CONTACT: Dr. Glen Barry, glenbarry@ecologicalinternet.org It is reported Ecuador will be compensated for leaving oil reserves in Yasuni National Park untouched. This is a major victory for Ecuador, the rainforest movement, and EcoInternet -; who was the first to campaign internationally on the issue. Ecuador's…

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