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[Leon Hudson <sfg2006@yahoo.com>]

Trees help make rain - this is not acceptable.

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>    1. Argentinean ancient forests trashed for GE
> Soya  Plantations
>       (Lawrence F. London, Jr.)
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> Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 10:45:16 -0400
> From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lfl@intrex.net>
> Subject: [permaculture] Argentinean ancient forests
> trashed for GE
>       Soya    Plantations
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> Greenpeace 'Jaguars' using motorbikes and
> helicopters place themselves
> between bulldozers and forest
> 
> Pozo del Tum?, Salta, Argentina. 29 August 2005 -
> Greenpeace today
> stopped two bulldozers from clearing the forest to
> expand the GE Soya
> frontier further into what is left of the Great
> American Chaco Forest.
> Four activists on motorbikes have blocked these
> machines, and another
> four on two helicopters (painted as jaguars) has
> filmed the
> devastation of the forests from the air.
> 
> Bulldozers are currently clearing the forests of
> South America at an
> alarming rate. In Argentina areas of forest the size
> of a soccer pitch
> disappear every three minutes. The rate of
> disappearance rises to
> every ten seconds in countries like Paraguay and
> Brazil, as latest
> Government figures for deforestation in the
> Brazilian Amazon show.
> 
> "Companies are failing to act responsibly, and the
> Argentinean
> Government stands by while rampant deforestation
> continues," said
> Emiliano Ezcurra, Greenpeace Argentina forests
> campaigner. "We're here
> to place ourselves between bulldozers and trees to
> stop the
> destruction of these last remaining ancient
> forests".
> 
> The social consequences are just as devastating;
> small farmers and
> indigenous communities are forcibly evicted from
> their land by
> government-supported GE Soya landlords. All the
> trees knocked down by
> bulldozers are discarded onto huge piles, often
> kilometres long, and
> set alight. The cleared land can only support the GE
> soya monoculture
> for a few years before the soil nutrients disappear.
> The options then
> are to use more chemicals or just leave the land to
> become a desert
> and move on to clear more forest. This process
> contributes to climate
> change, biodiversity loss and human rights
> violations at the same
> time.
> 
> The Greenpeace helicopter was surveying the area
> when the bulldozers
> were seen in the province of Salta, 1800 kilometres,
> north of Buenos
> Aires. On the ground the Greenpeace 'Jaguars'
> managed to get to the
> area in time to confront the bulldozers and stop
> them.
> 
> "It is outrageous that such devastation continues to
> take place at
> such a fast rate only because companies want to feed
> pigs in Europe or
> chickens in China. Unless something gets done
> immediately the world
> will see the large forest areas in South America
> disappear in a very
> short period of time. The international community
> should call on the
> Argentinean Government now to stop this disaster,"
> said Rex Weyler,
> early Greenpeace activist, from Vancouver, Canada,
> who took part in
> the action.
> 
> Solutions do exist already for these large forest
> areas to be managed
> sustainably through good forest practices like
> Forest Stewardship
> Council (FSC) certification, meaning that jobs and
> wealth are not
> incompatible with keeping forest diversity, clean
> air and water.
> 
> The Greenpeace 'Jaguars' will continue to stop the
> bulldozers with
> their motorbikes and helicopters over the days to
> come.
> 
> Greenpeace is an independent, campaigning
> organisation, which uses
> non-violent, creative confrontation to expose global
> environmental
> problems, and to force solutions essential to a
> green and peaceful
> future.
> 
> For more information please contact:
> 
> Emiliano Ezcurra, Greenpeace Argentina forest
> campaigner,
> +5491151094104
> Gavin Edwards, Greenpeace International forest
> campaigner, + 31 6 523
> 91 429
> Photos available upon request: John Novis, photo
> desk, + 31 6 538 19
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> 
> 
> 
> 
> Argentinean ancient forests trashed for GE Soya
> Plantations
> 
> Greenpeace 'Jaguars' using motorbikes and
> helicopters place themselves
> between bulldozers and forest
> 
> Pozo del Tum?, Salta, Argentina. 29 August 2005 -
> Greenpeace today
> stopped two bulldozers from clearing the forest to
> expand the GE Soya
> frontier further into what is left of the Great
> American Chaco Forest.
> Four activists on motorbikes have blocked these
> machines, and another
> four on two helicopters (painted as jaguars) has
> filmed the
> devastation of the forests from the air.
> 
> Bulldozers are currently clearing the forests of
> South America at an
> alarming rate. In Argentina areas of forest the size
> of a soccer pitch
> disappear every three minutes. The rate of
> disappearance rises to
> every ten seconds in countries like Paraguay and
> Brazil, as latest
> Government figures for deforestation in the
> Brazilian Amazon show.
> 
> "Companies are failing to act responsibly, and the
> Argentinean
> Government stands by while rampant deforestation
> continues," said
> Emiliano Ezcurra, Greenpeace Argentina forests
> campaigner. "We're here
> to place ourselves between bulldozers and trees to
> stop the
> destruction of these last remaining ancient
> forests".
> 
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Leon Hudson  Zone 6  New Mexico



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