STOP WORLDBANK FOREST DESTRUCTION

The players behind the curtains move fast and their little helpers with
the
worldwide wacos in the milliondollar "conservation" business cover
nicely.
... and again: THE LOCAL INDIGENOUS PEOPLES HAVE NO SAY!

ONLY 5 MORE DAYS TO STOP WORLD BANK
FUNDED RAINFOREST DESTRUCTION!!
Please respond to this alert and forward widely

ACTION ALERT!
World Bank to Resume Financing of Rainforest Destruction
July 2002, By Forests.org, Inc., http://forests.org/

TAKE ACTION: http://forests.org/emailaction/bank.htm

The World Bank has released its long awaited draft policy on forests.
The proposed policy threatens most of the world's remaining forests
with environmentally damaging industrial forest management financed
by taxpayers through the World Bank. It severely weakens the
existing Operational (OP) Policy on Forests of 1993. Environmental
group pressure led to the current policy that bans Bank funding of
logging in primary moist tropical forests. Over the past several
years, the World Bank has aggressively sought to resume financing of
"sustainable forest management" activities in the World's dwindling
primary forests, particularly in the tropics. This would require
revision of the Bank's existing forest policy. The proposed new
policy opens the door to financing of large scale timber export and
plantation based carbon sequestration projects, does not secure
land tenure for indigenous peoples, and shows little potential to
promote forest conservation. It is inappropriate for the World Bank
to subsidize rainforest destruction. Please tell them so by
registering your concern during their comment period at:

http://forests.org/emailaction/bank.htm