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Hundreds protest from today until August 20 on behalf of 233 indigenous communities against the construction of more dams and roads in the Amazon Brazilian

Hundreds Brazilian Indians across the country are joining together to call attention to the murder of their leaders, the theft of their land for industrial projects and other threats to their survival, as reported Survival International.

Thus, states that the demonstration will take place from 16 to 20 August in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, south of the Amazon and is expected to attract about 800 Indians representing many of the 233 indigenous peoples Brazil.

also points out that the protest will highlight the "rising anger" among indigenous peoples who oppose government plans to build a series of huge dams and roads in the Amazon.

also reports that protest organizers are the Association of Indigenous Peoples Brazil and Forum for the Defense of Indigenous Rights and have invited all candidates for the upcoming presidential election.

On the other hand, states that the Guarani have been "stripped of their land" to make way for cattle ranches and sugarcane plantations. In this regard, stresses that this tribe has one of the highest suicide rates in the world.

Since the UN has called on governments to respect the canon of international indigenous rights. Speaking on the occasion of International Day of Indigenous Peoples, James Anaya (United Nations special rapporteur for indigenous peoples) said "Indigenous people are seeing their traditional territories are invaded by powerful actors seeking to enrich at its expense, taking away their lifeline ".

The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples establishes important principles that states must follow. Almost all governments now support these early after both Australia and New Zealand withdraw their previous objections this year. Canada is committed to support the Declaration before the end of 2010, and the United States is also reviewing its objections.

However, James Anaya remarked that "today the Declaration continues to be more a reminder of how much we have ... a reflection of what has actually been achieved on the ground" . also added that "the faithful implementation of the Declaration should be the main focus of coordinated care for governments around the world for the UN and other actors" . Although

Declaration represents a major international principles, unfortunately is not yet legally binding. Survival is campaigning for more and more governments have signed the only legally binding international agreement on indigenous peoples: the Convention 169 of the International Labour Organization .

few months ago, the Central African Republic became the first African country to sign the agreement, and soon after did Nicaragua. Only 22 states have ratified it to date.

(*) Source of news: IRIN and SURVIVAL INTERNATIONAL

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The environmental organization Greenpeace today revealed the list of big companies like Alcampo, Burger King or Kentucky Fried Chicken with deforestation and climate change

really is tremendous ... It turns out that in the XXI century we are destroying virgin forest areas unique and unrepeatable full of life and beauty, also inhabited by endangered species of estinción ... And everything to make paper cups of Burger King!

course on the news are more important things to talk about, such as hot weather in summer, and stuff so important that we have ...

Luckily there is an organization called Greenpeace to which we can never thank him enough for the work done to investigate and report on issues as fundamental as this one of those who do not speak for big media interest.

The report on this subject has been published today in several countries in Europe and Asia under the name How Sinar Mas is the planet pulping ( How Sinar Mas is transforming the planet into pulp ) (1) where shows that well-known companies as Alcampo , Burger King or Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) are linked to the worsening climate change and extinction of species like the orangutan and the Sumatran tiger because of its use or sale of paper from the rainforests of Indonesia.

These and other companies buy disposable paper products (cups, bottles, tissue paper or printing) from APP (Asia Pulp and Paper), belonging to the multinational Sinar Mas, whose practices destroy rain forests and Indonesia's peatlands.

"This research shows that lack of environmental policies in the business sector, as is the case Alcampo contribute to the destruction of forests and peatlands of Indonesia by industry manufacturer of paper products ", said Miguel Angel Soto, head of the campaign of Greenpeace Forests and Climate.

Greenpeace has done his research in two areas important forest on the island of Sumatra, where he has found a true PPP is causing environmental disaster in areas like the forests of Bukit Tigapuluh, one of the last refuges for endangered species such as Sumatran tigers and orangutans. The rich peatlands Kerumutan carbon are key in defending against climate change. Some of them are deeper than three meters and is therefore unlawful processing plantations. A subsidiary of APP logging these forests for wood supply to its two pulp and paper in Sumatra, whose products are exported all over the world.

"These two examples are just a sampling of the many forests of high conservation value that are destroyed by APP for the production of pulp and paper, and also for the expansion of crops such as palm oil" , Soto added. "The compromise announced by President of Indonesia, Yudyohono, to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases is not real unless it establishes a moratorium on destruction of forests and peatlands" .

the past two years, Greenpeace has repeatedly exposed the illegal and destructive practices (3) Golden Agri Resources (GAR), the subsidiary of Sinar Mas Group dedicated to the production of palm oil. This case, along with new evidence about the practices of its subsidiary paper released by Greenpeace, has led to other companies (Unilever, Kraft and NestléI) to cancel their contracts with the giant palm oil and paper from Indonesia (4) .

Sinar Mas Group is continuing its destructive logging practices and illegal. His proclamations and "commitment to sustainability" are worthless. Greenpeace calls on all businesses listed in the report, as Alcampo (Auchan), or Burger King, to suspend its relations with Sinar Mas immediately. It also urges the need for publicly supporting the Government of Indonesia to protect forests and peat bogs from destruction.

The destruction of rainforests and peatlands makes Indonesia emits about a quarter of all greenhouse gases from deforestation and is, according to Indonesian government estimates, the third largest emitter in the world.

Notes:
(1) Greenpeace report in English:
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/publications/reports/SinarMas-APP/

(2) APP has pulp and paper mills in Indonesia and China and plans to purchase in Australia, Canada and the U.S.. It has sales networks in the U.S., the UK and Spain. Spain is one of its most important markets is growing and where more sales of paper products from APP.

(3) Between November 2007 and April 2010, Greenpeace filed a case series documenting the destruction of forests and bogs by the Sinar Mas Group for palm oil production related to the laundering of image RSPO.
http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/files/pdfs/forests/sinarmasRSPOgreenwash.pdf

(4) A number of major companies like Staples, Office Depot and Woolworths (Australia) have canceled their contracts with Sinar Mas due to poor environmental practices.

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Albert Einstein, a pioneer in many things, also said "nothing increase both the chance of survival on Earth as the transition to a vegetarian diet. (...) I only with its physical influence on the human temperament, the vegetarian lifestyle could positively influence the fate of humanity . " Leading by example he followed a vegetarian diet for the past years of his life.

Few heeded him, quite the opposite, and now, in 2010, witnessing a depletion of the Earth, and a global economic crisis that we are not learning any lessons. How long will this unsustainable form of production? How long will this consumerism predator who cheerfully leads to collapse and annihilation of biodiversity?

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For the protection of biodiversity in the Canary Islands

The Canary Islands government wants to adopt a lax law without regard to the scientific community to check out the biodiversity of the Canary Islands. Everyone against the new Catalog of Protected Species!

That no animal spoil your good business. This seems to be the watchword of the government of the Canary Islands (Canary Coalition and PP), according to the indignation aroused by his last bill, which aims to print or check out half of the species and subspecies of animals and plants of these islands.

If the bill goes ahead, the new Catalog of Protected Species removed from the list to 226 species, diminish the protection given to 131 of them and protect 94 of a very particular way. In the latter case, tell me if it smells fishy to ensure the plant or animal only if it is within a given space. In other words, if the plant or animal is outside it, or what is, if it bothers to build a golf course , or a housing estate or any other urban area, there would be utterly, and threatening them not would be an environmental offense, but simple administrative offense. A madness.

How could it be otherwise, environmentalists and scholars have been outraged, and have accused the government of jeopardizing canary hundreds of species of plants and animals, reducing their protection status of urban and infrastructure interests.

I have said bluntly personalities such as Juan José Bacallado, former director of the Museum de Ciencias Naturales, o especialistas como Pedro Oromí Masoliver, catedrático de zoología. Ambos acusan a Coalición Canaria de tener intereses económicos:

Coalición Canaria quiere quitarse de en medio un montón de especies protegidas que entorpecen proyectos de supuesto interés social, pero ya sabemos con qué facilidad se declara en Canarias cualquier obra como de interés general.

Además, se rebaja descaradamente la categoría de especies molestas, como es el caso del saltamontes Acrostira euphorbiae, especie muy amenazada que vive en una zona de La Palma, donde se pretende construir un campo de golf.

The biodiversity of the Canary Islands is unique haven for wildlife and home to about 4,000 species and subspecies that exist nowhere else in the world . Its habitat captivated Charles Darwin for two centuries, and remains a place chosen by thousands of nature lovers every year.

However, the ecological treasure volcanic archipelago may suffer a setback unrecoverable. If the government of the Canary Islands, which has already approved a bill, go ahead with it, more than half of the species in the protected list will be homeless. No comments. Well, yes, one more: with approval of the new catalog, large areas that were protected from urban development may receive permission to build. And a question: What remains of some islands if you remove their indigenous nature?

From Ben Magec-Ecologists in Action invite us to an important and fun action that is intended to show our political representatives that opposition to "New Catalog of Protected Species Canary has no boundaries. Help us to carry out this action.

Then we explain what to do. It's simple. Download BANNER (JPEG, 850 × 567 pixels) , print it and get a picture with the sign in a representative of your city, for example, if you live in France, you could take a picture with the Eiffel Tower in the background. Then send your photo to email canarias@ecologistasenaccion.org. You can also upload your photos on the Facebook group " I also reject the New Canary Coalition catalog "

With all photos received will be displayed to the Government of the Canary Islands the great mistake being committed. Remember that without your help this would not be possible. Go ahead and help with your photo to stop this madness! Thank you!

(*) fonts news: EcologiaBlog and Collective Turcon (Ecologists in Action)