ACTION ALERT PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY! Support Finnish NGOs in Their Fight for Lapland's Ancient Forests
By Ecological Internet's Forests.org project http://forests.org/ February 5, 2009 TAKE ACTION HERE NOW: http://forests.org/shared/alerts/send.aspx?id=finland_lapland_forests Protest Finnish timber giant Stora Enso and the government profiting from destroying Finland's last ancient forests. Let them know Finland and the World's old-growth must be protected and restored to sustain the Earth's biosphere and ecosystem processes including climate, water and biodiversity. BRIEF BACKGROUND: The last unprotected intact forest landscapes in Northern Finland are currently being destroyed by the Finnish government and timber industry. Low-productive old-growth boreal forests located hundreds of kilometres north from the Polar Circle are being logged systematically. Trees more than 300 years old are mainly ending up in pulp wood piles of timber giant Stora Enso. Only less than 5% of Finnish forests have remained untouched by modern forestry. Please, help Finnish NGOs to save Finlands natural treasures and to put international pressure on their destructive forest industry. This is the latest protest in Ecological Internet's global campaign to protect all remaining old growth forests, and promote regeneration and restoration of secondary forests to late successional old-growth status. Increasing old forest cover globally is critical for achieving global ecological sustainability -- including climate, water and biodiversity. TAKE ACTION NOW: http://forests.org/shared/alerts/send.aspx?id=finland_lapland_forests DISCUSS THIS ALERT: http://forests.org/blog/2009/02/alert-support-finnish-ngos-in.asp --- You are subscribed to ecological_internet as [email protected]. Before unsubscribing, please consider modifying your list profile at: http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/subscribe/[email protected] To unsubscribe, send a blank email to [email protected] Or click here: http://email.ecoearth.info:81/u?id=84041H&n=T&c=F&l=ecological_internet To subscribe visit: http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/subscribe/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
