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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (913)	3/3/2002 10:28:44 AM
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It isn't only the forest in the Amazon that's being destroyed. But maybe we don't need forests on this planet?: FOREST CONSERVATION NEWS TODAY Indonesian Rainforests Pulped to Extinction February 24, 2002 OVERVIEW & COMMENTARY by Forests.org Indonesia’s rainforests are on their deathbed. A new report from FOE UK indicates that the Indonesian pulp and paper industry is liquidating ancient forests at such a rate that shortly they will be gone. Given the scale of Indonesia’s logging industry, the crass and flagrant flaunting of the rule of law, and the diminished state of the resource, it is meaningless to pursue reform of commercial forestry as the primary forest conservation strategy. It is too late. Yet powerful and well financed conservation efforts continue to stress “sustainable” commercial scale forestry as the means to conserve Indonesia’s and the World’s remaining ancient forests. Corporate NGOs emphasize commercial scale certified forestry of primary old-growth forests as a key part of the solution, and the World Bank continues to pursue failed efforts to improve policing and monitoring of the rainforest liquidation sale. Commercial scale logging of Indonesia’s primary old-growth rainforests must come to an end. This is the case for all the World’s remaining ancient forests, but is particularly true in Indonesia, which is likely to soon lose essentially all intact and contiguous lowland rainforest expanses. Such logging can end now, while there are still substantial rainforests to provide critical ecosystem services; or logging can end when there are no large, contiguous, intact rainforests and the country is ecologically destitute and without hope. Indonesia’s rainforests will only be conserved to any meaningful extent if all commercial scale logging ends now. The World’s conservation organizations and financiers should stop aiding and abetting the final destruction of the World’s last rainforests. FOE has formulated a good campaign that highlights the pure evil and idiocy of making paper from ancient rainforests. This must end. g.b.

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