Earth and her humanity need old forests to exist. And all enabling their destruction, including potential carbon markets paying for 'sustainable forest management' in primary forests, are legitimate targets for an Earth Revolution. For too long those feeding upon the trough of "sustainable" forestry have been perpetuating the myth that primary and old growth forests can and should be harvested using "Sustainable Forest Management" (SFM) techniques. Old Forests are key to ecosystem, biodiversity...
TAKE ACTION! The mighty
Mekong River [search] in Southeast Asia faces a devastating threat from eleven new proposed dams. If even one of the dams are built in Cambodia, Laos or Thailand; they would block major fish migrations and otherwise ecologically disrupt this vitally important river, placing at risk millions of people who depend upon the Mekong for their food security and income. Help "
Save the Mekong" and this affinity campaign in...
Let me tell you about the birds and the bees, and the flowers and the trees. THEY ARE ALL DYING. Global grassroots protest action -- informed by ecological science, impassioned by green rage, and dedicated to sufficient policies to achieve global ecological sustainability -- our last best chance, together, to avoid ecocide. FOREWARD: For the past two months Ecological Internet has been micro-blogging on Twitter
http://twitter.com/ecointernet (as well as at
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ecological-Internet/84943913664 on Facebook)...
Peru's army is poised to deploy in the Amazon rainforest [
ark] to lift blockades across rivers and roads by indigenous people opposed to oil, gas, logging and mining projects. The
Peruvian rainforest [search] is the largest swath of Amazon outside Brazil. Ecology and culture are at stake as government plans to exploit 70% of the rainforest for oil, gas and timber. In the past two years the government has signed deals with multinationals to...