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Malaysian Oil Palm Threatens Amazon Rainforest

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Malaysian Oil Palm Threatens Brazilian Amazon

By Rainforest Rescue with Ecological Internet

http://www.regenwald.org/international/englisch/ &

http://www.climateark.org/

May 6, 2009

TAKE ACTION HERE NOW:

http://www.climateark.org/shared/alerts/send.aspx?id=amazon_oil_palm

Malaysia's government owned and subsidized oil palm cooking oil and

biofuel industry -- the scourge of Asia and the world's rainforests --

is continuing to expand, this time into the heart of the Brazilian Amazon

BRIEF BACKGROUND:

Malaysia‘s Federal Land Development Authority (FELDA) will soon break

ground on a joint venture with a Brazilian firm to establish

30,000-100,000 hectares (ha; 75,000 – 250,000 acres of oil palm

plantations in the heart of Brazil's Amazon rainforest. Similar oil palm

development continues to devastate Asia-Pacific's rainforests, and

increasingly the world, with some thirty square miles of carbon and

biodiversity rich habitat being cleared a day to provide cooking oil and

transport biodiesel. Oil palm agrofuel is heralded as a climate change

mitigation measure, yet the initial rainforest clearance leads to much

more carbon release than its production and use avoids.

Large scale biofuel production runs counter to urgently addressing

climate change and threatens to cause more deforestation, hunger, human

rights abuses, and degradation of soil and water. Global ecological

sustainability and local well-being depend critically upon ending all

industrial development in the world's remaining old forests -- including

plantations, logging, mining and dams. The amount of primary and old

growth forests that have been lost has already overshot the carrying

capacity of Earth. Globally there are not enough old forests to maintain

climatic and hydrological cycles, meet local forest dwellers' needs, and

to maintain ecosystems and the biosphere in total. Local peoples must be

assisted to fully protect, restore and benefit from intact, standing

forests.

TAKE ACTION NOW:

http://www.climateark.org/shared/alerts/send.aspx?id=amazon_oil_palm

DISCUSS THIS ALERT:

http://www.rainforestportal.org/issues/2009/05/alert_malaysian_oil_palm_threa.asp

--

Dr. Glen Barry

President

Ecological Internet, Inc.

USA

GlenBarry@EcologicalInternet.org

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EcoEarth.Info -- http://www.EcoEarth.Info/

Climate Ark -- http://www.climateark.org/

Forests.org -- http://forests.org/

Water Conserve -- http://www.waterconserve.org/

Rainforest Portal -- http://www.rainforestportal.org/

Ocean Conserve -- http://www.oceanconserve.org/

My.EcoEarth.Info -- http://My.EcoEarth.info/

New Earth Rising e-zine -- http://www.newearthrising.org/

 

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