Email alert against rainforest destruction for palm oil biodiesel in PNG
Almuth Ernsting | 28.12.2007 10:50 | Climate Chaos | Ecology
Ecological Internet are running a new email alert against plans by the
Malaysian company Vitroplant Ltd to destroy the rainforests of Woodlark
Island, Papua New Guinea for palm oil biodiesel:
http://www.climateark.org/alerts/send.asp?id=png_woodlark .
Malaysian company Vitroplant Ltd to destroy the rainforests of Woodlark
Island, Papua New Guinea for palm oil biodiesel:
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Woodlark Island, Papua New Guinea is almost completely covered by very biodiverse rainforest, and home to around 6,000 people. Islanders depend on forest and marine resources, as well as small-scale farming.
The Malaysian Company Vitroplant Ltd have been granted permission to turn 60,000 out of the 85,000 hectares of land on the island into a palm oil plantation for biodiesel, both for domestic consumption and for export. Plans are strongly opposed by the islanders, who will lose their livelihood. If the project goes ahead, many endemic species will be lost, marine life will be destroyed, and islanders will have to work on the plantation in order to survive.
For more background information, see the most recent World Rainforest Movement bulleting, www.wrm.org.uy/ and also
http://news.mongabay.com/2007/1112-hance_woodlark.html .
To take part in the email alert, go to
http://www.climateark.org/alerts/send.asp?id=png_woodlark.
The Malaysian Company Vitroplant Ltd have been granted permission to turn 60,000 out of the 85,000 hectares of land on the island into a palm oil plantation for biodiesel, both for domestic consumption and for export. Plans are strongly opposed by the islanders, who will lose their livelihood. If the project goes ahead, many endemic species will be lost, marine life will be destroyed, and islanders will have to work on the plantation in order to survive.
For more background information, see the most recent World Rainforest Movement bulleting, www.wrm.org.uy/ and also
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To take part in the email alert, go to
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Almuth Ernsting
e-mail:
info@biofuelwatch.org.uk
Homepage:
http://www.biofuelwatch.org.uk