[Corporations] World Bank to Carve Up Congo's Rainforests

[melissa roberts]

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>FOREST CONSERVATION ACTION ALERT
>World Bank to Carve Up Congo's Rainforests
>   Pursuing 60-fold Increase in Industrial Logging
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>Forest Networking a Project of Forests.org, Inc.
>February 15, 2004
>
>TAKE ACTION in partnership with Rainforest Foundation:
>   Stop the World Bank carve-up of the Congo forests!
>     http://forests.org/emailaction/congo.htm
>
>The World Bank is stealthily seeking to increase logging by sixty
>times in the world's second largest intact rainforests found in
>the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).  Internal World Bank
>documents obtained by the Rainforest Foundation reveal that the
>bank, together with the United Nations Food and Agriculture
>Organisation (FAO), intends to "create a favorable climate for
>industrial logging" by supporting the development of
>comprehensive new forestry laws in the Congo, as well as the
>'zoning' of the country's entire forest area.  Millions of acres
>of primary forests will be commercially logged for the first
>time.  More than 100 environment, development, and human rights
>groups in the Congo have called on the World Bank to stop these
>plans, and Forests.org asks you to do likewise by signing the
>petition at http://forests.org/emailaction/congo.htm
>
>FROM FORESTS.ORG:
>http://forests.org/ -- Forest Conservation Portal
>   http://www.EnvironmentalSustainability.info/ -- Eco-Portal
>     http://www.ClimateArk.org/ -- Climate Change Portal
>       http://www.WaterConserve.info/ -- Water Conservation Portal

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