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EI FOREST VICTORY -- PRESS/SOCIAL MEDIA RELEASE Key Indian Elephant Corridor and Habitat Successfully Protected Ecological Internet's Earth Action Network again demonstrates its ability to successfully internationalize strong, local environmental sustainability protest -- please support EI's continued success now during crucial fund-raiser at http://www.climateark.org/shared/donate/ November 26, 2009 By Earth's Newsdesk, a project of Ecological Internet (EI) http://www.ecoearth.info/newsdesk/ CONTACT: Dr. Glen Barry, [email protected] After prolonged protest by Ecological Internet, Rainforest Rescue and other partners, the Indian government has decided against locating a Neutrino Observatory (INO), an underground experimental physics project, in prime Indian elephant and other endangered animal and plant habitat. Indian officials in a new report have decided the Neutrino Observatory would gravely impact the Mudumulai Tiger Reserve, an important corridor for Indian elephants and other wildlife, and will be moved to a more suitable site. Priya Davidar of Pondicherry University in Pondicherry, India, noted "This is a rare victory for conservation (in India)." Ecological Internet spearheaded and provided the Internet protest platform for a loose coalition of environmentalists and conservation biologists working to block the project. Some 9,000 global Ecological Internet action network participants from 96 countries sent nearly 100,000 protest emails over the past 9 months [1]. This international action supported on-the-ground organizing by others including the Rainforest Information Centre and noted environmentalists including John Seed, Priya Davida and Ingmar Lee of Canada (who initially proposed the campaign). The area contains one of the largest contiguous forests in Asia and sustains India's largest wild populations of Asian Elephants and Bengal Tigers. The government's report confirmed our allegations that the site "is in close proximity to the core/critical tiger habitats of Bandipur and Mudumalai Tiger reserves. It is also an elephant corridor, facilitating elephant movement from the Western Ghats to the Eastern Ghats and vice-versa." Nilgiri contains over a fifth of the India's vertebrates and flowering plants, 15% of its butterflies, and numerous endangered species. "Ecological Internet has again demonstrated the importance of ecologically aware global citizens joining together to protest on the Internet in support of local conservation protests. We are very pleased to have been filling this role in the global movement for ecological sustainability for ten years, and hope to continue doing so should our current end-of-year fund-raiser be successful", notes Dr. Glen Barry, Ecological Internet's President. "With continued support through alert participation at http://www.climateark.org/shared/alerts/ -- and tax-deductible donations at http://www.climateark.org/shared/donate/ -- we envision even more ecologically sufficient policy success in the future." ************************** [1] The long-running alert entitled "Critical Elephant Corridor in India to be Severed" can be found at: http://forests.org/shared/alerts/send.aspx?id=india_elephants Ecological Internet provides the world's largest and most used forest, climate and environment portals at http://forests.org , http://www.climateark.org/ and http://www.ecoearth.info/ . Dr. Glen Barry is a leading global spokesperson on behalf of environmental sustainability policy. He frequently conducts interviews on the latest climate, forest and water policy developments and can be reached at: [email protected] --- 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]
