FYI...
x-posted from consbio.
Stefanie Rixecker
ECOFEM Coordinator
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Date sent: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 13:30:02 -0400
From: Tim Kunin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Study Finds Planting New Forests Can't Match Saving Old Ones in
Reducing CO2
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Apologies for Cross posting.
This analysis, published in the journal Science and reported by NYTimes, was
done by
Dr. Ernst-Detlef Schulze, the director of the Max Planck Institute for
Biogeochemistry in Jena, Germany, and two other scientists at the
institute http://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/22/science/22FORE.html.
Old growth forests are a resource of biology as well as carbon. It would be
horrible if trading carbon credits under the Kyoto protocols accelerated the
destruction of
existing ancient forests and their biodiversity, to be replaced by newly
planted monocultures of farmed trees. It is also much cheaper to save
existing forests than to try to recreate them.
I work with Ecologyfund (www.ecologyfund.com), a click-to-donate wilderness
preservation website, and we are interested in expanding the old-growth
forest that we protect. Existing projects help purchase wilderness
in-holdings of old growth forest owned by timber companies in California and
Washington State. We are also protecting virgin prairie in Manitoba, and
mature forests on Lake Erie, in the Amazon Basin, and in the Sierra Madre of
Mexico. Over one acre of wilderness can be protected every month for free
by clicking and donating, or visiting advertisers websites through our
special donations and rainforest rewards sections. We have protected over
2000 acres.
If anyone knows of other old growth protection projects needing additional
support and visibility, please email me directly at [EMAIL PROTECTED] -
Tim Kunin
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Dr. Stefanie S. Rixecker, Senior Lecturer
Environmental Management & Design Division
Lincoln University, Canterbury
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