Current Campaigns on Rettet den Regenwald e.V. // Rainforest Rescue en http://www.rainforest-rescue.org/ Sat, 31 Jul 2010 05:15:46 GMT 360 Rainforest Conservation Environmental Protection At the end of 2009, the president of Costa Rica opened up the road to the questionned controversial gold mining project of Crucitas "at the tune of by executive decrees", evading in this way the forestry legislation. Several environmental organisations have been struggling for many years against open-pit gold mining. Sign today a letter addressed to the new president, asking her to veto the above mentioned decree. http://www.rainforest-rescue.org/protestaktion.php?id=602 Thu, 22 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.rainforest-rescue.org/protestaktion.php?id=602 Monsanto is trying to offer the Haitian Ministry of Agriculture a fatal gift. The Haitian peasants will receive 475 tons of its seeds. This worsen the farmers’ situation. The organisations of La Via Campesina have expressed their strong disagreement and have demonstrated during the World Environment Day (Juny 4th) to say “no to Monsanto’s mortal gift which is a new earthquake hitting the agricultural sector”. They are asking for support to protect their food sovereignty. Help them today by sending a letter to the Haitian authorities. http://www.rainforest-rescue.org/protestaktion.php?id=595 Tue, 22 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.rainforest-rescue.org/protestaktion.php?id=595 A planned andalusite opencast mine would occupy 277,016 square metres on the boundaries of the Fragas do Eume, a National Park which is a prime example of Atlantic forest and is one of the forest jewels of Spain. “Fraga” means forest in the Galician language and Fragas do Eume is an area of native Atlantic forest with oaks, holly, hazel, birch as well as other tree species. The biodiversity as well as the water and the health of the community will all be seriously affected. Please write to the Galician Authorities today to express your indignation and to demand the project to be stopped. http://www.rainforest-rescue.org/protestaktion.php?id=594 Mon, 21 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.rainforest-rescue.org/protestaktion.php?id=594 In order to increase their ‘energy security’, Lufthansa wants to burn kerosene with agrofuels. At the end of two years of tests, up to 10% agrofuels are to be added to jet fuel. Lufthansa likes to speak about algae – not a realistic option – and jatropha, which is linked to land-grabbing, hunger and deforestation. Please call on Lufthansa to drop their agrofuel plans. http://www.rainforest-rescue.org/protestaktion.php?id=584 Fri, 21 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.rainforest-rescue.org/protestaktion.php?id=584 The World Bank and their International finance Corporation (IFC) has been investing in and supporting the expansion of the palm oil sector first in South-east Asia and then in Papua New Guinea, Latin America and Africa since 1965 and 1976 respectively. The development of the palm oil sector has not aided the development of local people. To the contrary, it has been accompanied by serious human rights violations, for example in Indonesia and Colombia and by more deforestation and climate change. http://www.rainforest-rescue.org/protestaktion.php?id=581 Fri, 14 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.rainforest-rescue.org/protestaktion.php?id=581 A major part of Napo Province in the Ecuadorian Amazon is designated by UNESCO as the Sumaco Biosphere Reserve. The Canadian company Ivanhoe Energy signed a contract with the Ecuadorian government to explore for petroleum in Block 20, which is situated within the reserve. The company is projected to extract between 4.5 and 7 billion barrels of petroleum from 30 or more wells. The project has not been sufficiently studied and we fear that it will have major social and environmental impacts. http://www.rainforest-rescue.org/protestaktion.php?id=558 Tue, 30 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.rainforest-rescue.org/protestaktion.php?id=558 Organisations and groups are invited to sign this important Manifesto for the Yasuni National Park in Ecuador. Manifesto: Moving towards a low carbon, energy supply solution HOW CAN EUROPE SUPPORT THE YASUNI-ITT INITIATIVE AND THE ECUADORIAN GOVERNMENT’S DECISION TO EXTRACT OIL RESERVES IN THE YASUNI NATURAL PARK? http://www.rainforest-rescue.org/protestaktion.php?id=556 Wed, 24 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.rainforest-rescue.org/protestaktion.php?id=556 Indigenous communities in the Lacandon Forest in Chiapas are being violently evicted by federal police and army forces , in support of corporate plans for oil palm expansion and other activities, including tourism falsely called eco-tourism. Please write to the authorities in Mexico and in Chiapas state to support local communities’and organisations’ calls for an immediate end to the evictions and the return of evicted comunities to their land, restitution for the damage which has been caused, the prosecution of those responsible and for an end of oil palm monocultures in the area. http://www.rainforest-rescue.org/protestaktion.php?id=543 Tue, 9 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.rainforest-rescue.org/protestaktion.php?id=543