Category: Global

Glob­al

29 arrested after six hour Climate Protest at Australian power station

1st Novem­ber 2008
29 peo­ple have been arrest­ed after a cli­mate change protest at Bayswa­ter pow­er sta­tion today. Four peo­ple attached them­selves to machin­ery, stop­ping the con­vey­or belts that car­ry coal to Bayswater’s fur­naces while about 25 oth­ers occu­pied the coal piles in protest against the Fed­er­al Government’s fail­ure to stop Australia’s green­house pol­lu­tion ris­ing.

Bayswater 1Bayswater 21st Novem­ber 2008
29 peo­ple have been arrest­ed after a cli­mate change protest at Bayswa­ter pow­er sta­tion today. Four peo­ple attached them­selves to machin­ery, stop­ping the con­vey­or belts that car­ry coal to Bayswater’s fur­naces while about 25 oth­ers occu­pied the coal piles in protest against the Fed­er­al Government’s fail­ure to stop Australia’s green­house pol­lu­tion ris­ing.

Spokesper­son, Georgina Woods, said, “Australia’s green­house pol­lu­tion is still increas­ing and our addic­tion to coal-fired pow­er is the main cause. We are here because every day we hes­i­tate, we are killing the Great Bar­ri­er Reef.”

In 2006/07, Bayswa­ter Pow­er Sta­tion cre­at­ed approx­i­mate­ly 14 mil­lion tonnes of car­bon diox­ide pol­lu­tion, mak­ing it equal great­est sin­gle source of green­house pol­lu­tion in the coun­try and among the top 100 pol­lut­ing pow­er sta­tions in the world.

The Fed­er­al Gov­ern­ment is expect­ed to announce medi­um term green­house emis­sion reduc­tion tar­gets at the end of the month, but pro­tes­tors say that 2020 is too late, and want a com­mit­ment that 2010 will be Australia’s “peak emis­sions” year.

The Bayswa­ter pow­er sta­tion near Muswell­brook in the Upper Hunter and the adja­cent Lid­dell pow­er sta­tion togeth­er sup­ply around 40% of NSW’s elec­tric­i­ty.

Details of Peo­ple’s Block­ade of the World’s Biggest Coal Port — 14 March 2009 Ma href=“http://www.risingtide.org.au/node/794”>here
The pro­tes­tors say pow­er sta­tions like Bayswa­ter will need to be shut down over the next few years: “Where is the plan to phase out facil­i­ties like these? Why are we twid­dling our thumbs?”

“The nation and the world are watch­ing and we will not get anoth­er chance. The peo­ple that are here today are par­ents and grand­par­ents, pro­fes­sion­als and trades­peo­ple. We are demand­ing a com­mit­ment from the Gov­ern­ment today: Australia’s green­house emis­sions must start drop­ping from 2010, we must do what­ev­er it takes to save the Bar­ri­er Reef from wipe-out and the world from dev­as­tat­ing run­away cli­mate change.”

The fight for the cli­mate is far from over; the need for peo­ple to protest our fail­ure to reverse green­house pol­lu­tion is greater than ever.

NPA rebels to continue anti-biofuels campaign

The com­mu­nist New Peo­ple’s Army (NPA) in Negros vowed Sat­ur­day to sus­tain its cam­paign against bio­fu­els and to raid plan­ta­tions ded­i­cat­ed to jathropa, a source of bio­fu­el.

NPA South­east­ern Negros spokesman Dom Pan­ta­le­on said the NPA will imple­ment more “pre­ven­tive mea­sures” against pri­vate agri-busi­ness cor­po­ra­tions for aggra­vat­ing food sup­ply prob­lem by plant­i­ng non-food crops.

The com­mu­nist New Peo­ple’s Army (NPA) in Negros vowed Sat­ur­day to sus­tain its cam­paign against bio­fu­els and to raid plan­ta­tions ded­i­cat­ed to jathropa, a source of bio­fu­el.

NPA South­east­ern Negros spokesman Dom Pan­ta­le­on said the NPA will imple­ment more “pre­ven­tive mea­sures” against pri­vate agri-busi­ness cor­po­ra­tions for aggra­vat­ing food sup­ply prob­lem by plant­i­ng non-food crops.

In an arti­cle on the Com­mu­nist Par­ty of the Philip­pines web­site, he cit­ed the Tam­lang Val­ley Agri­cul­tur­al Devel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (TVADC) as caus­ing wors­en­ing food sup­ply prob­lem and height­en­ing mil­i­tary abus­es in south­east Negros.

He said the NPA recent­ly con­duct­ed anoth­er “puni­tive action” against the TVADC bio­fu­els com­pa­ny main­ly based in the vil­lage of Casalaan, Sia­ton, Ori­en­tal Negros.

Pan­ta­le­on said an NPA team last Oct. 3 was ordered to con­fis­cate and burn two TVADC-owned trac­tors in Sitio Tam­lang, Talalak vil­lage in Sta. Catali­na town.

No one was harmed in the inci­dent, he added.

“It was the sec­ond such oper­a­tion in as many months by the Red army to pro­tect upland peas­ants from the intru­sive and harm­ful bio­fu­els com­pa­ny co-owned by the fam­i­ly of ex-Con­gress­man Her­minio Teves and their Kore­an busi­ness part­ners. Last Sep­tem­ber 9, a sep­a­rate NPA team seized and burned three trac­tors owned by the same com­pa­ny in sityo Cuadra, barangay Man­tik­il, in Sta. Catali­na town,” the NPA said.

Pan­ta­le­on added the NPA will con­tin­ue imple­ment­ing sim­i­lar orders for puni­tive actions to block the wide­spread grow­ing of jathropa and cas­sa­va in and around the vast Sta. Catali­na-Sia­ton-Valen­cia-Pam­plona bor­der vil­lages of Ori­en­tal Negros.

He said the NPA will also impose armed puni­tive actions against the Army’s 302nd Brigade for “pro­vid­ing pro­tec­tion and even col­lud­ing with TVADC in forc­ing ordi­nary farm­ers to plant jatrhopa and cas­sa­va, instead of their tra­di­tion­al food crops like upland rice and corn.”

Pan­ta­le­on said the mer­ce­nary AFP has become the bio­fu­els cam­paign’s most vis­i­ble “errand boys” for the agri-busi­ness com­pa­ny and the Teves fam­i­ly in south­east Negros.

============

For pre­vi­ous NPA protest against bio­fu­els in the Philip­pines, see http://earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/node/21752

Fighting Climate Crime — Activists Lock Down Logging for Dairy Operation in New Zealand

29 Octo­ber 2008
Ear­ly this morn­ing Green­peace activists took action to stop cor­po­rate dairy’s assault on New Zealand forests and the cli­mate.

In the cen­tral North Island huge swathes of for­est are being cleared to make way for indus­tri­al dairy mega farms.

Dairy logging NZ lock-on29 Octo­ber 2008
Ear­ly this morn­ing Green­peace activists took action to stop cor­po­rate dairy’s assault on New Zealand forests and the cli­mate.

In the cen­tral North Island huge swathes of for­est are being cleared to make way for indus­tri­al dairy mega farms.

Well before dawn this morn­ing, in the for­est near Toko­roa, sev­er­al activists halt­ed the sharp end of the log­ging oper­a­tion by lock­ing them­selves to heavy equip­ment.

Mean­while, on near­by land recent­ly con­vert­ed from for­est to dairy pas­ture, anoth­er team have used rotary hoes to write CLIMATE CRIME in 5m-high let­ters into the fresh pas­ture.

We are call­ing for the main polit­i­cal par­ties to com­mit to an imme­di­ate halt to for­est con­ver­sion for inten­sive dairy in the face of the wors­en­ing glob­al cli­mate cri­sis.

New Zealand’s agri­cul­ture sec­tor already emits 50 per cent of our green­house gas emis­sions — more than dou­ble the emis­sions of all trans­port com­bined. Defor­esta­tion releas­es huge amounts of green­house gas. We esti­mate that annu­al emis­sions from the two largest cor­po­rate con­ver­sion projects in the Cen­tral North Island alone equate to the annu­al emis­sions from the Hunt­ly coal fired pow­er sta­tion.

Forests trap car­bon beneath the soil and in trees. Like a sponge, they soak up car­bon diox­ide gas from the atmos­phere — the main green­house gas con­tribut­ing to cli­mate change.

Dairy con­ver­sion of forestry land func­tions as a ‘dou­ble wham­my’ on the cli­mate destroy­ing forests and replac­ing them with one of the most green­house gas inten­sive forms of land use.

This chain­saw mas­sacre and the ongo­ing expan­sion of cor­po­rate, inten­sive dairy farm­ing in New Zealand has got to stop.

The press release and relat­ed doc­u­ments are here
NZ MP dairy conversion
UPDATE: The, the fol­low­ing day as the sun rose over sleepy Helensville, we unfurled a truck­load of Ready-Lawn around the out­side of Nation­al Par­ty leader John Key’s elec­torate office. Then came some pine trees, some two-dimen­sion­al cows and a smat­ter­ing of stumps. Final­ly a bill­board went up say­ing: “Would John solve this cli­mate crime?” See the video and blog.

48hrs of Action against E.ON and New Coal

Fri­day 28th and Sat­ur­day 29th Novem­ber 2008

The UK Gov­ern­ment is call­ing for an 80% reduc­tion in car­bon emis­sions by 2050, we are call­ing for 48 hours of action against E.ON and new coal NOW.

E.on F.off logoFri­day 28th and Sat­ur­day 29th Novem­ber 2008

The UK Gov­ern­ment is call­ing for an 80% reduc­tion in car­bon emis­sions by 2050, we are call­ing for 48 hours of action against E.ON and new coal NOW.

It’s easy enough to set a tar­get that’s 42 years away, but we don’t stand a rapid­ly melt­ing snow­bal­l’s chance of achiev­ing it if the gov­ern­ment give the green light to new coal fired pow­er sta­tions (7 are in the plan­ning stages, with E.ON’s new Kingsnorth being first up) and keep dish­ing out sub­si­dies to new coal mines. Coal is the dirt­i­est fuel there is, so while the gov­ern­ment con­tin­ues with busi­ness-as-usu­al through the last 100 months we have to make a dif­fer­ence on cli­mate change, we call for 48 hours of action against new coal – now!

Join us in say­ing ‘No to New Coal’: get your friends togeth­er and plan an action for your area. Go stick­er­ing, blockad­ing, serv­ing direct action warn­ing notices at sup­ply chain premis­es, organ­ise an aware­ness rais­ing talk, hang a ban­ner, get cre­ative on the streets, the options are end­less. Get togeth­er, get cre­ative, and plan an action!

On Fri­day you could vis­it the Coal Author­i­ty, E.ON offices, UK Coal offices or Glob­al Coal Man­age­ment offices, to name but a few. Or take aim at their investors or parts of their sup­ply chain. On the Sat­ur­day you could take action at 2nd round FA Cup match­es spon­sored by E.ON. Togeth­er, we’ll raise aware­ness about killer coal, and we’ll say loud and clear that we won’t stand for new coal — at Kingsnorth or any­where else.

For more infor­ma­tion vis­it — http://www.e‑onf-off.org.uk/ — where a list of poten­tial tar­gets, action ideas and plen­ty of resources will fol­low short­ly.

This day of action is sup­port­ed by The Camp for Cli­mate Action, Ris­ing Tide, Plane Stu­pid and Cam­paign against Cli­mate Change.

Paraguan resistance to GM soya plantings — evictions & violence

28 Octo­ber 2008
Peas­ant organ­i­sa­tions are resist­ing against the begin­ning of the GM soya sea­son all over the coun­try of Paraguay. They demand access to land, land reform and the stop of the pes­ti­cide spray­ing which impacts on their com­mu­ni­ties. Despite the new gov­ern­ment, many camps have been evict­ed and vio­lence has tak­en place: 2 lead­ers have been mur­dered and hun­dreds of peas­ants have been arrest­ed. Please sign the let­ter below to put pres­sure on the gov­ern­ment and put a stop to vio­lence!

San Marco eviction28 Octo­ber 2008
Peas­ant organ­i­sa­tions are resist­ing against the begin­ning of the GM soya sea­son all over the coun­try of Paraguay. They demand access to land, land reform and the stop of the pes­ti­cide spray­ing which impacts on their com­mu­ni­ties. Despite the new gov­ern­ment, many camps have been evict­ed and vio­lence has tak­en place: 2 lead­ers have been mur­dered and hun­dreds of peas­ants have been arrest­ed. Please sign the let­ter below to put pres­sure on the gov­ern­ment and put a stop to vio­lence!

San Mar­co evic­tion & video­clip show­ing what hap­pened when a large group of campesinos halt­ed fumi­ga­tion trac­tors of Brazil­ian soy pro­duc­ers. Paraguay, com­mu­ni­ty of Yvypé all at http://www.lasojamata.org/en/node/230

In Paraguay, GM soya mono­cul­tures are today the main cause of defor­esta­tion, the destruc­tion and pol­lu­tion of oth­er ecosys­tems, of vio­lence and the evic­tion of small farm­ers and indige­nous peo­ples. Paraguay has near­ly 2,6 mil­lion hectares of soy plan­ta­tions for ani­mal feed exports and, more recent­ly, for agro­fu­el. A jour­nal­ist who vis­it­ed the coun­try in 2007 described the impact of soya mono­cul­tures as fol­lows:
“Rur­al east­ern Paraguay used to be full of jun­gle, small farms, schools and wildlife. Now it is a green sea of soy­beans. The fam­i­lies, trees and birds are gone. The schools are emp­ty. The air is filled with the tox­ic stench of the pes­ti­cides like paraquat and 2,4‑D used to pro­tect the soy crops” [http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/3093].

The rem­nants of Paraguay’s Atlantic For­est and of the Alto Parana for­est, as well as wet­lands, grass­lands and rivers are being destroyed and pol­lut­ed by the expan­sion of immense RR soya fields. Defor­esta­tion is wors­en­ing glob­al warm­ing and also caus­ing severe region­al warm­ing and droughts. It has con­tributed to the worst fire sea­son ever record­ed in Paraguay last year, and prob­a­bly to the severe drought which is cur­rent­ly affect­ing the south of the coun­try. More than 100,000 small peas­ant fam­i­lies have been evict­ed for soya plan­ta­tions and over 100 peas­ant lead­ers have been mur­dered since the late 1990s in con­flicts over access to land. Agro-chem­i­cal (glyphosate, 2,4D, and oth­ers) spray­ing of soya plan­ta­tions severe­ly affects the health of peo­ple liv­ing in soy region, in some cas­es lead­ing even to deaths, and also destroys people´s food crops. Hunger and mal­nu­tri­tion are increas­ing as less and less land is avail­able to farm­ers for grow­ing food.

In August this year, a new gov­ern­ment took office and the new pres­i­dent, Fer­nan­do Lugo, promised to sup­port small farm­ers against pes­ti­cide poi­son­ing and soya expan­sion. How­ev­er, the gov­ern­ment has giv­en con­flict­ing sig­nals by also sup­port­ing increased soya exports at the same time. Also, the police and juridi­cal forces have been sup­port­ing soya busi­ness­es in sup­press­ing the peas­ant move­ment in their fight against pes­ti­cide spray­ing and the expan­sion of soy mono­cul­tures.

This month, at the start of the new soya plant­i­ng sea­son, small farm­ers’ organ­i­sa­tions have mobilised to stop pes­ti­cide spray­ing and to pro­tect peas­ant agri­cul­ture and the envi­ron­ment against fur­ther destruc­tion. They have set up around 130 law­ful camps at the mar­gins of soya ‘lat­i­fun­dios’ (large estates). In recent weeks, they have been increas­ing­ly sub­ject­ed to vio­lence, with two mur­ders of peas­ant lead­ers, unlaw­ful arrests and deten­tions. Also, var­i­ous camps have been vio­lent­ly evict­ed, with use of increas­ing num­bers of para­mil­i­taries. Many peas­ant lead­ers are receiv­ing death threats. The civ­il secu­ri­ty guards that for­mer gov­ern­ment organ­ised ‘Comi­sion Gar­rote’ are the main actors behind this threats.

The ten­den­cy seems to be that the vio­lence and repres­sion against the peas­ant move­ment will inten­si­fy. For many in the move­ment, this year is their last chance to stop soya expan­sion and to pro­tect what remains of Paraguays’ forests and wet­lands, sus­tain­able peas­ant agri­cul­ture, and small farm­ers and indige­nous people?s future.

Please write to the author­i­ties in Paraguay and urge them to ful­ly sup­port small farm­ers and their demands for pro­tec­tion from pes­ti­cide spray­ing, from evic­tions, envi­ron­men­tal destruc­tion and pol­lu­tion, for food sov­er­eign­ty and land reform.

See last action report — farms occu­pied — at http://earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/node/21753/

See also:
Video about the 2 evic­tions in Alto Parana:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYEBsk0jtG4
Video about the camp against the pes­ti­cide spray­ing in Caaguazú
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4xnXaZGjS8
Peas­ant com­mu­ni­ty in San Pedro against the pes­ti­cide spray­ing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfLEXvipkJw

Arti­cles about the cur­rent sit­u­a­tion in Paraguay:
http://www.lasojamata.org/

LETTER (send the Span­ish ver­sion that is below)

Dear Sir/Madam,

Re: Please pro­tect Paraguay’s com­mu­ni­ties and envi­ron­ment against soya
mono­cul­tures

I was very pleased to hear about Pres­i­den­t’s Lugo’s stat­ed com­mit­ment to
pro­tect small farm­ers against soya plan­ta­tions, includ­ing against
pes­ti­cide spray­ing and to stop defor­esta­tion. How­ev­er, I am deeply
con­cerned to hear about the increas­ing vio­lence against peas­ant
organ­i­sa­tions that are mobil­is­ing against pes­ti­cide spray­ing in the soya
mono­cul­tures, while argu­ing for a new agri­cul­tur­al pol­i­cy that pro­tects
small farm­ers and food sov­er­eign­ty as well as the envi­ron­ment.

Two peas­ant lead­ers ? Sin­dul­fo­Martínez mem­ber of the organ­i­sa­tion MCP and
Bien­venido Mel­gar­e­jo of the organ­i­sa­tion ASAGRAPA have recent­ly been
mur­dered. There are reports of a ‘hit list’ with the names of fifty
peas­ant lead­ers who fear that they could be mur­dered next. In the past
weeks, the courts and the police have been involved in the evic­tion of
peas­ant camps which have been law­ful­ly set up on the mar­gins of, not on,
soya plan­ta­tions, resort­ing to laws which exist to pre­vent crim­i­nal
offences. Peo­ple have been unlaw­ful­ly evict­ed, detained, crim­i­nalised and
tor­tured.

With this let­ter, I want to show my strong sup­port to the main demands of
peas­ant move­ments and civ­il soci­ety organ­i­sa­tions in Paraguay: that
pes­ti­cide spray­ing of soy mono­cul­tures must be banned and effec­tive­ly
stopped. The lands ille­gal­ly sold to agribusi­ness com­pa­nies must be
returned to the land­less Paraguayan peas­ants.

I urge you to stop the evic­tion orders and repres­sion against peas­ant
mobil­i­sa­tion. The two recent mur­ders and all reports of police vio­lence
and tor­ture must be ful­ly inves­ti­gat­ed and those respon­si­ble must be held
to account. The fam­i­lies of those who have been mur­dered must receive
finan­cial com­pen­sa­tion.

The gov­ern­ment must take imme­di­ate action and inves­ti­gate the death
threats against peas­ant lead­ers. The first step for this is to dis­solve
the so called ?Cit­i­zen Secu­ri­ty Com­mis­sions?, com­mon­ly called ?Gar­rote
Com­mis­sions?. These groups are the main actors of the para-police vio­lence
against social organ­i­sa­tions in the rur­al areas.

In front of the urgent sit­u­a­tion of pover­ty and envi­ron­men­tal dev­as­ta­tion
in Paraguay, the gov­ern­ment must ini­ti­ate a pro­gramme to sup­port peas­ant
farm­ing and food sov­er­eign­ty, rather than fur­ther sac­ri­fic­ing Paraguay’s
com­mu­ni­ties and envi­ron­ment to pro­duce ani­mal feed and agro­fu­els for
export.

Please let me know what your plans are for address­ing this urgent
sit­u­a­tion, in order to avoid more vio­lence and human rights vio­la­tions,
includ­ing more killings of peas­ants, and to pro­tect com­mu­ni­ties and the
envi­ron­ment from soya mono­cul­tures.

Thank you,

Yours faith­ful­ly,
Asun­to: Por favor, pro­te­ja a las comu­nidades paraguayas y al medio
ambi­ente de los monocul­tivos de soja

Esti­ma­da Sra., Esti­ma­do Sr.,

Ha sido muy sat­is­fac­to­rio para mí, saber acer­ca del com­pro­miso del
Pres­i­dente Lugo para pro­te­ger a los pequeños campesinos en con­tra de las
planta­ciones de soja, así como de las fumi­ga­ciones con pes­ti­ci­das y la
defor­estación. Sin embar­go, me pre­ocu­pa seri­amente cuan­do escu­cho acer­ca
de la escal­a­da de vio­len­cia dirigi­da hacia las orga­ni­za­ciones campesinas
que se mov­i­lizan en con­tra de las fumi­ga­ciones de pes­ti­ci­das sobre las
pobla­ciones y a favor de una nue­va políti­ca agraria que pro­te­ja a los
pequeños campesinos, la sober­anía ali­men­ta­ria y el medio ambi­ente.

Dos líderes campesinos ‑Sin­dul­fo­Martínez de la orga­ni­zación, Movimien­to
Campesino Paraguayo- MCP (Vía Campesina-PY) y Bien­venido Mel­gar­e­jo de la
orga­ni­zación Aso­ciación de Agricul­tores de Alto Paraná- ASAGRAPA han
sido recien­te­mente asesina­dos. Hemos tenido noti­cias acer­ca de una ?lista
negra? con nom­bres de unos cin­cuen­ta líderes campesinos que temen ser los
próx­i­mos asesina­dos. Jue­ces y la policía han esta­do en estas últi­mas
sem­anas impli­ca­dos en el des­man­te­lamien­to de cam­pa­men­tos campesinos
estable­ci­dos legal­mente en las már­genes, y no den­tro, de las planta­ciones
de soja, amparán­dose en leyes de pre­ven­ción del crimen. Los campesinos han
sido ile­gal­mente expul­sa­dos, detenidos, crim­i­nal­iza­dos y tor­tu­ra­dos.

Con esta car­ta quiero demostrar mi enér­gi­co apoyo a las dos prin­ci­pales
deman­das de los campesinos y las orga­ni­za­ciones de la sociedad civ­il de
Paraguay: Las fumi­ga­ciones con agrotóx­i­cos de los monocul­tivos de soja
deben ser pro­hibidas y detenidas de man­era efec­ti­va. Las tier­ras ven­di­das
irreg­u­lar­mente a los agroem­pre­sar­ios deben ser devueltas a los campesinos
sin­tier­ras paraguayos.

Exi­jo fre­nar la actu­al ola de desa­lo­jos y repre­sión a las mov­i­liza­ciones
campesinas. El desa­lo­jo por recur­sos de amparo pre­ven­ti­vo es una medi­da
jurídi­ca irreg­u­lar. Los dos recientes asesinatos y todos los reportes de
vio­len­cia poli­cial y tor­tu­ra deben ser inves­ti­ga­dos a fon­do, y sus
respon­s­ables deben ser penal­iza­dos. Las famil­ias de los asesina­dos deben
ser com­pen­sadas económi­ca­mente.

Así tam­bién el gob­ier­no debe actu­ar de for­ma inmedi­a­ta y fre­nar las
ame­nazas de muerte que pen­den sobre los diri­gentes campesinos. El primer
paso para ello es aten­der a las deman­das de las orga­ni­za­ciones de
desar­tic­u­lación de las ?Comi­siones de Seguri­dad Ciu­dadana?, común­mente
denom­i­nadas ?Comisión gar­rote?. Estos gru­pos son los prin­ci­pales
pro­tag­o­nistas de vio­len­cia para­poli­cial con­tra las orga­ni­za­ciones sociales
en el cam­po.

Frente la urgente situación de pobreza y dev­astación ambi­en­tal del cam­po
paraguayo, el gob­ier­no debe ini­ciar inmedi­ata­mente un pro­gra­ma de apoyo a
la agri­cul­tura campesina y la sober­anía ali­men­ta­ria. Bas­ta ya del
sac­ri­fi­cio de las comu­nidades campesinas e indí­ge­nas del Paraguay y del
medio ambi­ente para man­ten­er un mod­e­lo agroex­por­ta­dor sojero que sólo
pro­duce ali­men­to para ani­males y agro­com­bustibles.

Por favor, deme a cono­cer sus planes para con­tener esta urgente situación
y para evi­tar más vio­len­cia y vio­la­ciones de dere­chos humanos, incluyen­do
más asesinatos de campesinos en su país, y para pro­te­ger a las comu­nidades
y al medio ambi­ente de los monocul­tivos de la soja.

Muchas gra­cias por ade­lan­ta­do y un aten­to salu­do.

ADDRESSES / DIRECCIONES

1. Pres­i­den­cia de la Repúbli­ca del Paraguay
Exce­len­tísi­mo Don Fer­nan­do Lugo Mén­dez, Pres­i­dente de la Repúbli­ca del
Paraguay
Pala­cio de Gob­ier­no
El Paraguayo Inde­pen­di­ente e/Ayolas y O´leary
Cen­tral tele­fóni­ca 4140000 (RA)
web­site: www.presidencia.gov.py
e‑mail: presidente@presidencia.gov.py
webmaster@presidencia.gov.py

Sec­re­taria Gen­er­al
S. E. Miguel Angel López Per­i­to
Min­istro, Sec­re­tario Gen­er­al y Jefe del Gabi­nete Civ­il de la Pres­i­den­cia
de la Repúbli­ca
Tel 4140288, fax 4140310

2. Sec­re­taria del Ambi­ente (SEAM)
S. E. José Luís Casac­cia , Min­istro, Sec­re­tario Ejec­u­ti­vo
Avda. Madan Lynch 3500 y Reservista de la Guer­ra del Cha­co.
Tel + 595 21 615803/4, fax + 595 21 615807
casac­cia jcasaccia@hotmail.com

3. SENAVE, Ser­vi­cio Nacional de Cal­i­dad y Sanidad Veg­e­tal y de Semi­l­las
Ing. Agr. Luis Llano Imas , pres­i­dente
Ofic­i­na cen­tral del SENAVE: Edif. PLANETA I. Humaitá Nº 145 c/ Ntra. Sra.
de la Asun­ción. Tele­fax: + 595 21 445 769 /+ 595 21 441 549, Asun­ción -
Paraguay
presidencia@senave.gov.py
secretaria_general@senave.gov.py

S. E. Rafael Fil­iz­zo­la, Min­istro
Chile y Man­du­virá
Tel + 595 21 493 661, fax: + 595 21 450.027
ministro@mdi.gov.py
vmseguridad@mdi.gov.py
sgeneral@mdi.gov.py
5. Min­is­te­rio de Jus­ti­cia y Tra­ba­jo
S. E. Blas Llano, Min­istro
Gas­par Rodríguez de Fran­cia y Esta­dos Unidos
Tel + 595 21 447010, + 595 21 493209, fax + 595 21 208469
mjt@mjt.gov.py

6. Min­is­te­rio de Agri­cul­tura y Ganade­ria
S. E. Can­di­do Vera Bejara­no, Min­istro
Pres­i­dente Fran­co 479
Tel + 595 21 441036, cen­tral + 595 21 451316/ 447304
Vicem­i­nis­te­rio de Agri­cul­tura: vagricultura@mag.gov.py
Sec­re­taría Gen­er­al: secretariagral@mag.gov.py

7. Fis­calía Gral. del Esta­do
Dr. Rubén Can­dia Amar­il­la
fiscaliageneral@ministeriopublico.gov.py

Tasmanian Forest Activists Twice Violently Attacked by Loggers — solution to whole conflict proposed by activists

For­est activists attacked in the Upper Flo­ren­tine Val­ley, Tassie
22 Octo­ber 2008
On Mon­day morn­ing a for­est activist was repeat­ed­ly kicked in the head by vio­lent, out of con­trol log­gers in the Flo­ren­tine Val­ley, the site of a protest against old-growth log­ging.

Still Wild tree sit & banner blockadeFor­est activists attacked in the Upper Flo­ren­tine Val­ley, Tassie
22 Octo­ber 2008
On Mon­day morn­ing a for­est activist was repeat­ed­ly kicked in the head by vio­lent, out of con­trol log­gers in the Flo­ren­tine Val­ley, the site of a protest against old-growth log­ging.

A peace­ful action by con­ser­va­tion­ists in the Upper Flo­ren­tine was tar­get­ed by vio­lent log­ging con­trac­tors, with one activist kicked in the head and block­ade infra­struc­ture attacked with a sledge­ham­mer, seri­ous­ly endan­ger­ing two activists. This occurred while a Forestry Tas­ma­nia employ­ee watched on.

The group blocked the road for three hours until about 9.30am (AEDT) when a con­trac­tor attacked the vehi­cle with a sledge­ham­mer, she said.

“The con­trac­tor set upon the car with a sledge­ham­mer and then dragged the activist out from the car and kicked him in the head while he was lying on the ground,” Ms Majew­s­ki said.

She said the vic­tim, who escaped seri­ous injury, was a 22-year-old male activist who unlocked his arm from the road dur­ing the sledge­ham­mer attack.

“Mem­bers of the Tas­man­ian com­mu­ni­ty engaged in legit­i­mate peace­ful protest in defence of ancient forests should not be sub­ject­ed to this kind of vio­lence, nor should it be con­doned by Forestry Tas­ma­nia employ­ees” said Still Wild Still Threat­ened spokeper­son Ula Majew­s­ki.

“Due to the car­bon-stor­age val­ue of this for­est, the con­tentious nature of this log­ging oper­a­tion and today’s vio­lence, Still Wild Still Threat­ened requests an imme­di­ate ces­sa­tion of log­ging in coupe FO042E” Ula Majew­s­ki said.

“Vio­lence of this kind is per­pe­trat­ed by a small minor­i­ty of log­ging con­trac­tors. Con­trac­tors such as Howell’s Log­ging should focus their anger on those who are endan­ger­ing their liveli­hoods, such as Forestry Tas­ma­nia and Gunns Lim­it­ed, who con­tin­ue to dam­age Tas­man­ian com­mu­ni­ties and forests with an unsus­tain­able, wood­chip based indus­try” Ula Majew­s­ki said.

“Activists will be pur­su­ing this mat­ter with the police” said Miss Majew­s­ki.

On Sat­ur­day the camp will cel­e­brate their sec­ond year try­ing to halt log­ging of old-growth forests in the Upper Flo­ren­tine val­ley, about 120 kilo­me­tres west of Hobart.

The rain­for­est val­ley is sur­round­ed on three sides by the Tas­man­ian Wilder­ness World Her­itage Area. The Inter­na­tion­al Union for Con­ser­va­tion of Nature has iden­ti­fied the Upper Flo­ren­tine as hav­ing poten­tial World Her­itage val­ue.

Ula Majew­s­ki, a spokes­woman for the group Still Wild, Still Threat­ened, said attempts to save the for­est were reach­ing a crit­i­cal point, with plans to dri­ve a 10-kilo­me­tre log­ging road into the val­ley this sum­mer.

“That would open the entire area up for log­ging,” Ms Majew­s­ki said.

Video (same video also here)

—
Camp­site fire­bombed by log­gers

24 Octo­ber 2008
Three car loads of men arrived at the group’s camp­site late last night, Still Wild Still Threat­ened mem­ber Ula Majew­s­ki said. “A num­ber of unknown indi­vid­u­als arrived at Camp Flo­ren­tine around 11.30pm and used jer­ry cans of petrol to set the two vehi­cles on fire,” Ms Majew­s­ki said today. “A for­est activist who was sleep­ing in the vicin­i­ty of the vehi­cles was wok­en by shout­ing and loud smash­ing.

“A for­est infor­ma­tion booth pro­vid­ed for tourists was also set on fire and a gas cook­er inside explod­ed,” she said.

The inci­dent was report­ed to police after some of the activists had to walk out of the for­est because their cars had been destroyed in the attack. Still Wild Still Threat­ened spokes­woman Ula Majew­s­ki said her group had used a “drag­on” to block a road used by log truck dri­vers and forestry work­ers. With a “drag­on” a car is dri­ven over a device dug into the road and an activist, using a hole in the floor of the vehi­cle, locks an arm onto the device, she said.

The attack in the Flo­ren­tine Val­ley, 120km west of Hobart, fol­lows a vio­lent clash between forestry work­ers and activists at a road block in the same area on Tues­day. Activists had dis­rupt­ed log­ging in the area for a day last week using a tree-sit­ter, alleged­ly cost­ing con­trac­tors an esti­mat­ed $10,000 in lost rev­enue.

The camp has swelled with sup­port­ers to the Strath­gor­don Rd site in sol­i­dar­i­ty the pro­test­ers. The camp­site, where five peo­ple were sleep­ing, blocks a for­est road to an area marked for log­ging.

http://www.myspace.com/stillwildstillthreatened

———–

Tas­man­ian for­est activists pro­pose a solu­tion

Still Wild Still Threat­ened and the Huon Val­ley Envi­ron­ment Cen­tre are propos­ing a solu­tion to the pro­tract­ed debate over con­tentious forestry oper­a­tions in old growth and high con­ser­va­tion val­ue areas of the South­ern Forests.

“Still Wild Still Threat­ened and the Huon Val­ley Envi­ron­ment Cen­tre are propos­ing a Tas­man­ian and Aus­tralian Gov­ern­ment dri­ven solu­tion to con­tentious log­ging and road­ing oper­a­tions in the South­ern Forests. We are call­ing on all stake­hold­ers to adopt a con­sid­ered and ratio­nal approach to bring­ing this pro­longed for­est debate to a fair and envi­ron­men­tal­ly respon­si­ble con­clu­sion,” said Still Wild Still Threat­ened Spokesper­son Ula Majew­s­ki.

“Our organ­i­sa­tions are pre­pared to cease all in-for­est peace­ful direct action that restricts log­ging and road­ing oper­a­tions, con­tin­gent on a mora­to­ri­um on all forestry oper­a­tions in old growth and high con­ser­va­tion val­ue areas of the South­ern Forests, and the cre­ation of an inde­pen­dent­ly medi­at­ed dia­logue that aims to resolve the for­est issue,” said Huon Val­ley Envi­ron­ment Cen­tre Spokesper­son Adam Burl­ing.

The con­di­tions of this pro­posed solu­tion are:

1. SWST and the HVEC will com­mit to a ces­sa­tion of all in-for­est peace­ful direct action that restricts

log­ging and road­ing oper­a­tions in the South­ern Forests

2. The Tas­man­ian and Aus­tralian Gov­ern­ments will com­mit to a mora­to­ri­um on all forestry, log­ging and road­ing oper­a­tions in old growth and high con­ser­va­tion val­ue areas of the South­ern Forests;^1

3. An inde­pen­dent­ly medi­at­ed dia­logue will be under­tak­en, dri­ven by rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the Depart­ment of Pre­mier and Cab­i­net and the Office of the Prime Min­is­ter, and attend­ed by rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the rel­e­vant min­istries, includ­ing cli­mate change, and rel­e­vant con­ser­va­tion groups and indus­try stake­hold­ers. This dia­logue will aim to resolve the long run­ning for­est debate in Tas­ma­nia in an envi­ron­men­tal­ly and eco­nom­i­cal­ly sus­tain­able man­ner;

4. That the above com­mit­ments remain in force for a peri­od of six months, with exten­sions grant­ed if dia­logue is ongo­ing;

5. That com­mu­ni­ty events con­tin­ue unhin­dered in the South­ern Forests, and for­est activists are able to main­tain a pres­ence in areas such as the site of Camp Flo­ren­tine.

“The Tas­man­ian com­mu­ni­ty deserves bet­ter than to see the con­tin­ued log­ging of our pre­cious remain­ing car­bon dense ancient forests, such as the Styx, Weld, and Upper Flo­ren­tine. And it deserves bet­ter than to see a for­est indus­try that exists on gov­ern­ment hand­outs and mar­gin­alis­es local oper­a­tors. We urge pol­i­cy mak­ers to con­sid­er this unique pro­pos­al,” Adam Burl­ing said.

“We will be for­mal­ly con­tact­ing Pre­mier Bartlett and Prime Min­is­ter Rudd about this today and are seek­ing a response by Tues­day 11^th Novem­ber,” said Ula Majew­s­ki.

UNITED ENVIRONMENT GROUPS TAKE TASMANIAN FOREST SOLUTION TO THE FEDERAL CABINET

Envi­ron­ment groups work­ing towards an end to the con­flict over for­est man­age­ment in Tas­ma­nia took a unit­ed posi­tion to meet­ings with four Fed­er­al Cab­i­net min­is­ters last night in Launce­s­ton.
Meet­ings were pos­i­tive and envi­ron­men­tal cam­paign­ers are con­fi­dent this will mark the start of a con­struc­tive work­ing rela­tion­ship that could see the long-over­due deliv­ery of envi­ron­men­tal, social and eco­nom­ic via­bil­i­ty to the strug­gling Tas­man­ian tim­ber indus­try.
“We are hope­ful requests to the Fed­er­al Cab­i­net and Tas­man­ian Pre­mier Bartlett to engage in mean­ing­ful dia­logue and par­tic­i­pate in the solu­tion to this long-run­ning dis­pute will bear fruit” said Dr Phill Pullinger, Direc­tor of Envi­ron­ment Tas­ma­nia.
“Col­lec­tive­ly, we call on Tas­man­ian Min­is­ter David Llewellyn to take a more open and con­struc­tive approach than that so far dis­played, and help bring the Pre­mier to the table and start talk­ing about a pos­i­tive way for­ward,” said Vica Bay­ley, spokesper­son for The Wilder­ness Soci­ety.

Recent rev­e­la­tions that for­est con­trac­tors want assis­tance to exit the indus­try, and that sawlogs are in over-sup­ply, show that now is the time for a res­o­lu­tion to this con­flict.
The Aus­tralian (4/11/08) reports, “In Tas­ma­nia, hard-hit for­est con­trac­tors are seek­ing a fed­er­al­ly fund­ed exit pack­age to allow them to leave the indus­try “with dig­ni­ty”.

“Forestry Tas­ma­nia is not the appro­pri­ate body to nego­ti­ate this con­flict. Only Pre­mier Bartlett can, by join­ing with fed­er­al lead­ers and help­ing to steer for­est con­flict to an ami­ca­ble clo­sure” said Jen­ny Weber, spokesper­son for the Huon Val­ley Envi­ron­ment Cen­tre.

“Envi­ron­ment groups sup­port a respon­si­ble for­est indus­try in Tas­ma­nia and are unit­ed in the belief that there can be a res­o­lu­tion to the debate that could deliv­er win-win out­comes for our forests and for­est-depen­dent com­mu­ni­ties,” said Ula Majew­s­ki, spokesper­son for Still Wild Still Threat­ened.

Dongria Kohnd mass protest — Middlesbrough and Wolverhampton Councils Revealed as Vedanta Investors

Tribe dances in mass protest against British min­ing com­pa­ny
21 Octo­ber 2008

Hun­dreds of mem­bers of the Don­gria Kondh tribe danced and sang through the cap­i­tal of the Indi­an state of Oris­sa on Mon­day, armed with tra­di­tion­al weapons, to mark their oppo­si­tion to British com­pa­ny Vedanta’s plans to mine their sacred moun­tain.

Tribe dances in mass protest against British min­ing com­pa­ny
21 Octo­ber 2008

Hun­dreds of mem­bers of the Don­gria Kondh tribe danced and sang through the cap­i­tal of the Indi­an state of Oris­sa on Mon­day, armed with tra­di­tion­al weapons, to mark their oppo­si­tion to British com­pa­ny Vedanta’s plans to mine their sacred moun­tain.

A huge pro­ces­sion of the tribe and their sup­port­ers snaked through the Oris­san cap­i­tal, Bhubaneswar.

The FTSE 100 British com­pa­ny Vedan­ta, major­i­ty owned by Lon­don-based bil­lion­aire Anil Agar­w­al, has received the go-ahead from India’s Supreme Court to mine alu­mini­um ore on the Dongria’s land. The mine would destroy the forests and streams the Don­gria depend on, and would turn their sacred moun­tain into an indus­tri­al waste­land.

Don­gria man Jitu Jake­si­ka said at the demon­stra­tion, ‘We will car­ry on our strug­gle to save Niyam­giri at any cost.’

Survival’s direc­tor Stephen Cor­ry said today, ‘If fur­ther proof were need­ed that the Don­gria Kondh are deter­mined to stop Vedan­ta, this would be it. The Don­gria know that the mine would destroy them. Vedan­ta must heed their voic­es and pull out of this project.’

Last week Sur­vival sub­mit­ted a report to the Unit­ed Nations Spe­cial Rap­por­teur on Indige­nous Issues, say­ing, ‘Min­ing will dev­as­tate what the Don­gria Kondh hold sacred and the nat­ur­al resources from which they draw their spe­cif­ic iden­ti­ty as a peo­ple.’

Many British banks and pen­sion funds invest in Vedan­ta, includ­ing the Uni­ver­si­ties pen­sion fund (USS), F&C, Stan­dard Life, Bar­clays Bank, Abbey Nation­al and HSBC, as well as Mid­dles­brough and Wolver­hamp­ton Coun­cils. Sur­vival is cam­paign­ing for investors to pull out of Vedan­ta.

For more infor­ma­tion please con­tact Miri­am Ross at Sur­vival Inter­na­tion­al (+44) (0)20 7687 8734 or (+44) (0)7504 543 367 or email mr@survival-international.org

The latest EF! Action Update is out, bringing you reports of eco-resistance for the darkening days…

Bring­ing light & inspi­ra­tion to the dark­er evenings are the action sto­ries in the lat­est Earth First! Action Update.

Block­ades of nuclear pow­er, roads & rivers around the world were joined “with this Shell-blockad­ing D‑lock I thee wed”.

Adjustable spanner photoBring­ing light & inspi­ra­tion to the dark­er evenings are the action sto­ries in the lat­est Earth First! Action Update.

Block­ades of nuclear pow­er, roads & rivers around the world were joined “with this Shell-blockad­ing D‑lock I thee wed”.

And if anti-fas­cist action, quar­ry sab­o­tage, squats, tree plat­forms, wrekin’ open­casts, scal­ing lux­u­ry hotels & the lat­est protest camp news was­n’t enough for you, chuck in some glue, arm tubes, a pool of oil, stink bombs, air­borne rape alarms and a Lego-sized occu­pa­tion, then there’s full reports from this sum­mer’s antics at the Camp for Cli­mate Action, Ross­port sol­i­dar­i­ty camp, EF! sum­mer gath­er­ing and Sav­ing Ice­land camp, plus a crop of glob­al cli­mate camps & news of protest & resis­tance from all 5 con­ti­nents.

“No nukes, no coal, no kid­ding” — with peo­ple dying (both lit­er­al­ly & sym­bol­i­cal­ly) from the activ­i­ties of the Earth-destroy­ers, peo­ple have been shout­ing to just “Leave it in the Ground”, drag­on boats have clashed with navy gun­boats in Ire­land, an oil war was declared in Nige­ria, and ‘moles’ spent a week under­ground dig­ging fur­ther and fur­ther away from the forces of dark­ness at an open-cast coal site.

Details of the new Coal Action Net­work, upcom­ing dates & a full con­tact list should help launch (or boost) you into the orbit of eco-resis­tance.

Sub­scribe and get it sent direct to a let­ter­box near you — you’d also be sup­port­ing the EF!AU to get print­ed and sent out to pris­on­ers & protest camps. If you want some to dis­trib­ute, con­tact us at: actionup­date (AT) earthfirst.org.uk

Down­load the lat­est issue or past issues here.

The EF!AU is there to inspire peo­ple to take eco­log­i­cal direct action, to pro­vide info to help you just get out and do it. Don’t feel shy, put your best foot for­ward.

The EF!AU is the quar­ter­ly newslet­ter of peo­ple tak­ing eco­log­i­cal direct action — send us news of your action or cam­paigns, and come along to the Win­ter Moot if you want to get involved in any of the cam­paigns you’ve read about.

What is Earth First!?

Dongria Kondh Road Block — Tribe vows to fight mine with axes and arrows

Tribe vows to fight mine with axes and arrows

One of India’s most iso­lat­ed tribes, the Don­gria Kondh, is prepar­ing to stop British FTSE 100 com­pa­ny Vedan­ta from min­ing alu­mini­um ore on their sacred moun­tain, after police and hired thugs forced pro­tes­tors to dis­man­tle a bar­ri­cade over the week­end.

Tribe vows to fight mine with axes and arrows

One of India’s most iso­lat­ed tribes, the Don­gria Kondh, is prepar­ing to stop British FTSE 100 com­pa­ny Vedan­ta from min­ing alu­mini­um ore on their sacred moun­tain, after police and hired thugs forced pro­tes­tors to dis­man­tle a bar­ri­cade over the week­end.

About 150 peo­ple had blocked the road in Oris­sa state on Wednes­day after hear­ing that Vedan­ta intend­ed to start sur­vey work for a planned alu­mini­um mine which would destroy an eco­log­i­cal­ly vital hill, and the Don­gria Kondh’s most sacred site. Vedan­ta employ­ees vis­it­ed the block­ade repeat­ed­ly, threat­en­ing the pro­tes­tors. On Fri­day the vil­lagers gave in and took down the bar­ri­cade, but about 100 are still at the side of the road, block­ing traf­fic when Vedan­ta vehi­cles approach.

Vedan­ta is major­i­ty owned by Lon­don-based Indi­an bil­lion­aire Anil Agar­w­al.

Today, Don­gria Kondh from all over Niyam­giri, the hill range that would be dec­i­mat­ed by Vedanta’s mine, are mak­ing arrows and prepar­ing their axes to stop Vedan­ta reach­ing their sacred moun­tain. One Don­gria man said today ‘Now our peo­ple are very angry. We have to show the Don­gria Kondh pow­er to Vedan­ta.’

When India’s Supreme Court gave Vedan­ta the green light in August to mine on Don­gria land, around 40 Don­grias used tree trunks to block a road lead­ing into their hills, and held ban­ners read­ing, ‘We are Don­gria Kondh. Vedan­ta can not take our moun­tain.’ [pho­tos avail­able]

The moun­tain that Vedan­ta wants to mine is not only the Don­gria Kondh’s most sacred site, it is also inte­gral to the entire ecosys­tem of the hills, enabling the numer­ous streams and lush forests which sus­tain the Don­grias to con­tin­ue to thrive.

Survival’s direc­tor, Stephen Cor­ry, said today ‘The Don­gria Kondh are pro­tect­ing their land from invaders, who are only inter­est­ed in plun­der­ing the moun­tain for their own gain. The Don­grias will get noth­ing from the mine, except des­ti­tu­tion and ruin, and Sur­vival will con­tin­ue to sup­port their resis­tance to Vedan­ta.’

For more infor­ma­tion please con­tact Miri­am Ross at Sur­vival Inter­na­tion­al (+44) (0)20 7687 8734 or (+44) (0)7504 543 367 or email mr@survival-international.org

Protest halts logging in upper Florentine Valley-Monday 13 October 2008 & campaign update newsletter

MEDIA RELEASE
Mon­day, 13th Octo­ber 2008
Tas­man­ian for­est defend­ers take a stand against cli­mate crimes in the Upper Flo­ren­tine Val­ley

MEDIA RELEASE
Mon­day, 13th Octo­ber 2008
Tas­man­ian for­est defend­ers take a stand against cli­mate crimes in the Upper Flo­ren­tine Val­ley

This morn­ing, for­est activists from Still Wild Still Threat­ened con­duct­ed a peace­ful action in the Upper Flo­ren­tine Val­ley, halt­ing log­ging oper­a­tions in coupe FO42E. A for­est defend­er is perched high on a tree-sit to protest against the con­tin­ued dec­i­ma­tion of Tas­ma­ni­a’s car­bon dense old growth forests.

“We are speak­ing out against the cli­mate crimes which con­tin­ue to be per­pet­u­at­ed by Forestry Tas­ma­nia and Gunns Lim­it­ed, and are call­ing on Kevin Rudd to take imme­di­ate action and put a stop to the ram­pant wood-chip­ping of some of our most sig­nif­i­cant car­bon sinks” said Still Wild Still Threat­ened spokesper­son Chris­to Mills.

“A recent ANU study has clear­ly shown that Tas­ma­ni­a’s ancient forests can play a key role in com­bat­ing dan­ger­ous cli­mate change. [1]However, these glob­al­ly renowned forests con­tin­ue to be sub­ject­ed to destruc­tive road­ing, log­ging and burn­ing oper­a­tions” said Mr Mills.

“The car­bon rich forests of the Upper Flo­ren­tine Val­ley are being sys­tem­at­i­cal­ly destroyed to feed the rapa­cious appetite of an envi­ron­men­tal­ly unsus­tain­able wood-chip­ping industry.The dev­as­ta­tion of these car­bon rich forests is an inter­na­tion­al dis­grace and for­est defend­ers will con­tin­ue to take peace­ful action against these rep­re­hen­si­ble cli­mate crimes” said Mr Mills.

“Pro­tect­ing Tas­ma­ni­a’s ancient forests is a sim­ple and high­ly effec­tive cli­mate change solu­tion” said Mr Mills.

For com­ment, con­tact: Chris­to Mills 0447 631 735

—–

The lat­est cam­paign update newslet­ter, Spring 2008 — upcom­ing dates (Note: South­ern hemi­sphere spring is our North­ern autumn) — not that you’d think of fly­ing there in any case, boys & girls 😉