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Please Encourage Rainforest Action Network’s New Leader to Work to End Primary Forest Logging

By Rainforest Portal http://www.rainforestportal.or..., a project of Ecological Internet
August 4, 2010

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Rainforest Action Network (RAN) has a much needed new Executive Director – Rebecca Tarbotton. For almost two years Ecological Internet has worked to get the once luminary old-growth protection organization to stop supporting Forest Stewardship Council’s (FSC) certification of industrial 1st time logging of 500 year trees in millions of year old primary forest as “well-managed” – while implying sustainability – for throw away consumer products like toilet paper, paper and lawn furniture. RAN co-founded FSC and is a long-time staunch member. Getting major forest protection organizations like RAN and Greenpeace to resign from FSC is a necessary first step before – together – we can campaign to end primary forest logging as a keystone response to global ecological sustainability.

Using the only publicly available information, EI estimates some 120 million hectares of primary forests – an area two times the size of Texas and about 60% of FSC’s timber – have been logged for the first time or are threatened by first time industrial logging with FSC certification and RAN’s support. To date RAN has not been very responsive, and we ask that you contact Ms. Tarbotton to congratulate her on the position and respectfully ask that RAN reexamine their support of FSC and commit to working to end primary forest logging. You may want to note:

* Ecological science indicates Earth has lost more intact terrestrial ecosystems including primary forests than are necessary to maintain a workable biosphere long-term. And the protection and restoration of old forests is a keystone response to both the climate and biodiversity crises.

* That in Nov. 2008 RAN committed to reviewing their FSC membership, a promise that has never been kept.

* Ecological Internet is willing to debate on the important forest policy of whether primary forest must end at anytime, anyplace; but have thus far been stonewalled.

* Just recently the Swedish Society for the Conservation of Nature – Sweden’s largest environmental group – resigned from FSC over similar concerns.

* You may also choose to “like” EI’s earlier posting as a sign of support.

Just a simple posting like “Congrats! Please leave FSC” or “Please get RAN out of primary forest logging” is fine. This method of campaigning has been used by Greenpeace against Nestle and it proved very effective. This is very important for Earth’s old forests and sustainability, so please do it now. Our posting– as well as links to past alerts and writings on the matter – are available below as an example.
Dr. Glen Barry

P.S. You are encouraged to also contact RAN on twitter at http://www.twitter.com/ran -
on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/rainfo... - and by email at answers@ran.org - and make the same points.

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EI’s SAMPLE MESSAGE

Congrats!
Myself, Ecological Internet and our tens of thousands of supporters globally are looking to you for leadership in ending primary forest logging. To this end we very much hope you will dialogue with opponents of Forest Stewardship Council. You or a staff designee are challenged to a debate anytime, anywhere on the matter. We look forward to hearing how you can justify logging 500 year old trees across an area two times the size of Texas with RAN's blessing. If you dispute these figures, as a FSC member we look forward to seeing how much you think FSC depends upon primary forest logging. Clearly you must have access to such information!? Our demand is that RAN resign from FSC immediately, and you will continue to face legitimate criticism and protest until you do.

Regards,
Dr. Glen Barry

P.S. Please have RAN stop censoring debate on this matter and remove blocks to posting on your org's FB and blog. You can begin to show your commitment to respectful dialogue over a major policy issue - whether primary forests should continue to be logged or not - by not removing this post or blocking me as has been the norm in the past.


OTHER RESOURCES FOR CRAFTING YOUR MESSAGE:

RELEASE: Rainforest Action Network Expands Misleading Greenwashing of Primary Forest Logging
http://www.rainforestportal.or...

FB ALERT & RELEASE: Protest Greenpeace and Rainforest Action Network’s Censoring of Facebook Criticism of Their Support for Primary Forest Logging
http://www.rainforestportal.or...

EARTH MEANDERS: The Rainforest Movement Is Dead… Long Live the Old Forest Revolution
http://www.rainforestportal.or...

RELEASE: Global Campaign to Protect and Restore Old Forests Gaining Traction
http://www.rainforestportal.or...

ALERT! More Old Forests, Less Industrial Agriculture, Key to Climate, Food and Water
http://www.climateark.org/blog...

ALERT! No to Copenhagen 'Carbon Logging': GOOD REDD Fully Protects and Restores Old Forests as a Global Climatic Imperative
http://www.climateark.org/blog...

RELEASE: deRANged II The Sequel -- Rainforest Action Network Endangers World's Rainforests
http://www.rainforestportal.or...

New York City Activists Unfurl 35-foot Banner on High Line to Protest Park's Use of FSC-Certified Amazon Wood
http://www.rainforestportal.or...

RELEASE: "Good REDD" Fully Protects and Restores Old Forest Carbon and Local Livelihoods
http://www.rainforestportal.or...

ALERT! Tell Greenpeace: Toilet Paper Consumption from Canada's Ancient Boreal Forests Must End
http://forests.org/shared/aler...

EARTH MEANDERS: Old Forests, REDD Rage and Earth Revolution
http://www.ecoearth.info/blog/...

VICTORY/RELEASE: Global Consensus Emerging Regarding Need to End Industrial Primary Forest Logging as Keystone Climate Change Response
http://forests.org/blog/2009/0...

REDD Must Only Support Willing Protection of Old Forests
http://www.rainforestportal.or...

Keeping Old Forests Intact and Unfragmented Key to Minimizing Climate Change
http://www.rainforestportal.or...

RELEASE: Ancient Forests Absorb 20% of Human's Carbon, Logging and Other Industrial Destruction of Old Forests Must Stop Now
http://www.rainforestportal.or...

EARTH MEANDERS: Light REDD: The Looming Tragedy of Carbon Markets Paying to Destroy Ancient Forests
http://www.climateark.org/blog...

Ecological Internet's Campaign to End Ancient Forest Logging Gaining Support
http://www.rainforestportal.or...

Greenpeace Reaffirms Support for Ancient Forest Logging
http://www.rainforestportal.or...

RELEASE: Ancient Forest Victory, as Rainforest Action Network Yields, Commits to Review FSC Support
http://www.rainforestportal.or...

RELEASE: Ancient Forest Logging is deRANged
http://www.rainforestportal.or...

ALERT: As Rainforest Action Network Prepares to "Revel", What Has Become of Their Old Growth Forest Campaign?
http://www.rainforestportal.or...

Action Alert: Stop the Forest Liars: "Certified" Old-Growth Rainforest Logging Does NOT Protect Biodiversity, Ecosystems or Climate
http://www.rainforestportal.or...


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