Greenpeace campaigns in the Pacific to save the remaining ancient forests of Melanesia from destruction.
Latest news:
World Bank review shows logging ban should stay
Tuesday, 24 April, 2001 The World Bank review of proposed forestry concessions shows the need to extend the current Moratorium on all new logging projects in Papua New Guinea.
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Forests campaign:
Every two seconds, a forest zone the size of a soccer pitch is logged or burned.
Greenpeace is campaigning to protect Melanesia’s ancient forests by opposing their destruction and supporting solutions developed and run by village communities. Greenpeace supports forest use, by forest communities, that sustains the natural dynamics and biodiversity of ancient forest ecosystems.
Greenpeace seeks:
• a moratorium on industrial developments in ancient forests so that appropriately large areas of ancient forest reserves can be established;
• to ensure governments increase their efforts to stop illegal logging;
• to stop governments funding or approving projects that expand logging into ancient forests or that convert or degrade ancient forests.
There is a solution to ancient forest logging…
Ecotimber is sustainable hardwood produced in Solomon Islands. The ecoforestry industry could put an end to ancient forest destruction. The first shipment of ecotimber has just reached Australia . To learn more about its production and where you can get it, click here.
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The Eco-forestry Forum is made up of PNG based organisations,
including Greenpeace, who see ecoforestry as a way of
ensuring that the rights of local people are protected
that their assets or resources are properly managed
and that others are not allowed to unfairly exploit them.
www.ecoforestry.org.pg
Ecotimber is a sustainable industry which protects ancient Melanesian forests.
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Recent happenings, news, reports:
Our report Islands Adrift? shows that small-scale development options (like reef fishing, beche de mer collection, ecotimber and ecotourism) were worth US$29 million to landowners, compared to US$8 million for industrial logging.