Fw: RAINFOREST ALERT UPDATE: Stop the Great Ugandan Rainforest Give Away

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ACTION ALERT UPDATE

Stop the Great Ugandan Rainforest Give Away

 

Rainforest Portal, a project of Ecological Internet, Inc.

http://www.rainforestportal.org/

January 12, 2006

 

TAKE ACTION

Let the Ugandan President and Parliament know rainforests and

their ecological services are invaluable

http://www.rainforestportal.org/alerts/send.asp?id=uganda

 

The rainforest destruction crisis in Uganda, which we first

informed you of in December, has worsened considerably. The

Ugandan President now proposes to degazette over nine additional

municipal forest reserves, presumably to spur industrial and

agricultural development. This is in addition to two existing

proposed large agricultural plantation projects in an important

protected rainforest, and another forest that buffers Lake

Victoria, to grow palm oil and sugar cane crops. Destruction of

Uganda's surviving forests will have grave ecological

consequences, changing the country's climate including more

frequent droughts and floods, threatening hundreds of rare

species, sparking soil erosion, and further reducing the health

and water volume of Lake Victoria. Please contact the Ugandan

government to insist these projects be abandoned and that

existing protected forests maintain their status, informing the

government that Uganda needs more not less intact protected and

restored rainforests if they are to develop in an ecologically

sustainable manner and have any hope of alleviating poverty in

the long-term.

 

TAKE ACTION NOW at:

http://www.rainforestportal.org/alerts/send.asp?id=uganda

 

After sending the alert, you are forwarded to several other

important current alerts - please participate.

 

Discuss this alert at:

http://www.rainforestportal.org/issues/2007/01/alert_stop_the_great_ugandan_

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