AR-News: FORESTS PETITION: World Bank to Carve Up Congo's Rainforests

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From: gbarry at forests.org
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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 13, 2004
 
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TAKE ACTION in partnership with Rainforest Foundation:
 Stop the World Bank carve-up of the Congo forests!
 
http://www.rainforestfoundationuk.org/s-Petition%20the%20World%20Bank%20on%2
0Congo%20Forests 

The World Bank is stealthily seeking to increase logging by sixty 
times in the world's second largest intact rainforests, much of 
which are 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.  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 
above.  For more information see:
http://forests.org/blog/archives/000485.htm

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