Fw: RAINFOREST ALERT: Mayor Bloomberg: We Love New York, But Hate Your Government's Rainforest Destruction!

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ACTION ALERT PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY!

 

Mayor Bloomberg: We Love New York, But Hate Your Government's

Rainforest Destruction!

 

Rainforest Portal a project of Ecological Internet

http://www.rainforestportal.org/

November 2, 2007

 

TAKE ACTION

New York City is one of the biggest rainforest destroyers; and

their use of tropical hardwoods must end to protect global

climate, ecosystems and biodiversity

 

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

 

New York City's (NYC) Department of Parks and Recreation is

one of America's largest destroyers of rainforests, reports

New York based Rainforest Relief. Parks and other NYC and

state agencies including the Department of Transportation

(DOT) and NYC Transit use hundreds of thousands of board feet

of tropical hardwoods per year. New York City's use of ancient

forest timbers comes at great expense to the Earth's

biodiversity, ecosystems, climate and prospects for achieving

global ecological sustainability... Please support Rainforest

Relief's and NY Climate Action Group's campaign demanding that

Mayor Bloomberg end NYC's use of tropical hardwoods. In order

to protect ancient forests, the people who live there, and

global climate; NYC purchases of timbers derived from ancient

forests must be stopped and an important precedent set that

all industrial scaled ancient forest logging must end forever.

 

TAKE ACTION NOW:

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