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Boise Cascade and logging allies launch attack against Rainforest Action Network
Funding for conservation programsMon, 18 Jun 2001
Last week nearly forty groups signed, overnight, a letter to
the
House appropriations committee decrying "Zero Funding" for
important ag conservation programs. These groups,
representing a
strong alliance of farm, conservation, church and sustainable
agriculture, sent a loud message to the House that they want these
popular ag programs continued next year. Currently, the House
appropriations leadership is threatening to cap these three
important
and popular incentive programs that protect hundreds of
thousands
of acres of land and countless threatened species and waterways:
the Wetlands Reserve Program (WRP), the Wildlife Habitat
Incentives Program (WHIP) and the Farmland Protections Program
(FPP) to sign on to a letter calling for Congress to continue these
programs go to: http://www.familyfarmer.org
FOREST CONSERVATION ACTION ALERT!
Amazon Rainforest Threatened by Massive Road & Infrastructure
Development
June 27, 2001
By Forests.org, Inc. - http://forests.org/
A massive infrastructure project known as "Avanca Brasil"
(Advance
Brazil) threatens the very existence of the Amazon rainforest. The
proposed project will upgrade and construct new roads into the
interior of the Amazon basin; facilitating increased logging, mining
and settlement. The project will likely ensure final loss of the
World's largest rainforest. Deforestation and fragmentation of the
Amazon rainforest threatens Brazilian and Global ecological
sustainability. Please urge the Brazilian government to cancel
environmentally destructive elements of this project, and recommit
itself to environmentally sustainable development and establishment
of protected areas in the Amazon. It takes a moment to do so at:
Forward this message widely until September 2001. See Forests.org's
"Brazil Rainforest Conservation News & Information, Most
Recent" news
archive at http://forests.org/brazil/
for more information and
updates.
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