Sedmica posvećena orangutanima 11.11.2009.

Od 08-15 novembra se obilježava Sedmica orangutana, kojom se u svijetu edukacijom na svim nivoima nastoji podići ukupna svijest o potrebi pomoći ovim ugroženim primatima. http://redapes.org/oaw/ Teško je prihvatiti realnost da je orangutanima ostalo samo nešto manje od 10 godina do konačnog nestanka.U našem vijeku oni su jedna od vrsta kojoj prijeti nestanak i kraj postojanja u prirodi. Orangutani su inače veoma inteligentna bića s kojoma čovjek ima naj sličniji DNA 97%.

Ako ne zaštitimo našeg najbližeg evolucijskog rođaka. Kakvu šansu imaju ostale životinje? Najveća prijetnja opstanku orangutanima je nemilosrdno krčenje tropskih kišnih šuma Bornea. Njihova staništa se uništavaju u cilju profita i sadnje palminog drveća. Šta možemo uraditi ? Pri kupovini obratite pažnju na sastojke. Palmino ulje se nalaziu u mnogim proizvoda , šamponima, sapunima, hrani.. Ne kupujte proizvode koji sadrže palmino ulje. Pomozite orangutanima jednostavno bojkotujući te proizvode! Na taj efikasan način direktno pomažete ne samo orangutanima, nego i mnogim drugim stanovnicima tog osjetljivog staništa, tigrovima, nosorozima, gibonima, leopardima.. Pored toga, deforestizacija uveliko ubrzava klimatske promjene!

Nataša Crnković Koordinatorica programa Biodiverzitet i zaštićena područja info@czzs.org ~Info Noa

Source: http://www.drustvonoa.org/akcija%20272.html

English translation:

Week dedicated orangutanima 11/11/2009.
From 08-15 November, marking the week orangutan, which is the world’s education at all levels strives to raise the overall awareness of the need to help these endangered primates. http://redapes.org/oaw/ It is difficult to accept the reality that the rest orangutanima only slightly less than 10 years until the final nestanka.U our age they are one of a kind that threatens the existence of the disappearance and end in nature. Orangutan are otherwise very intelligent beings with which man has the most similar DNA 97%.

If you do not protect our closest evolutionary relatives. What chance have other animals? The biggest threat to the survival orangutanima ruthlessly clearing of tropical rain forests of Borneo. Their habitat is destroyed in order to profit and planting palm trees. What can we do? When buying pay attention to the ingredients. Palm oil is found in many products, shampoo, soap, food .. Do not buy products containing palm oil. Help orangutanima simply bojkotujući these products! In this efficient way not only directly help orangutanima, but many other residents of the sensitive habitat, tigers, rhinos, gibonima, leopard ..
In addition, deforestizacija greatly accelerate climate change!
Natasa Crnkovic Program Coordinator Biodiversity and Protected Areas
INFO NOA

Read more Croatian stories here (Check out the great photos!):
http://www.24sata.hr/fun-i-sexy/orangutan-izazvao-kratki-spoj-pa-pobjegao-iz-zoo-a/115914/

http://www.drustvonoa.org/akcija%2047.html

http://www.gopetition.com.au/petitions/stop-using-palm-oil.html

Recent discoveries have determined the orangutan species is rapidly declining. This is due to logging in places such as Indonesia and Malaysia. Rainforests are being destroyed and palm oil plantations are established in their place.

An organization under the website, themanoftheforest.com, states the following: “Presently in Borneo (Indonesia and Malaysia) and Sumatra the Orangutan population is down to around 69,000.This may initially sound like a fairly large number, but when you discover that we are currently losing 50 Orangutans a week and that at the present rate of killing there will be none left by 2026, you then realize why the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) have raised the alarm to an unprecedented level with a new report : “Last Stand of the Orangutan : A State of Emergency”.”

This oil is used in products such as food and Girl Scout cookies manufactured by ABC/Interbake and Little Brownie Baker. Let’s change the ingredient and save the environment.

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The We Campaign is a project of The Alliance for Climate Protection — a nonprofit, nonpartisan effort founded by Nobel laureate and former Vice President Al Gore. Our ultimate aim is to halt global warming. Specifically we are educating people in the US and around the world that the climate crisis is both urgent and solvable.

Learn more: http://www.wecansolveit.org/

Source: Greenpeace International

Please visit the Greenpeace website to learn how you can take action and join the fight against deforestation and palm oil…. be sure to check out the video updates from the camp…

Sumatra, Indonesia — Our volunteers and local forest communities have halted the destruction of an area of swamp forest in Sumatra, Indonesia. They are building five dams across three-metre deep canals used in logging and draining peatland for conversion into a commercial palm oil plantation.

Destroying the forest there would not only breach Indonesian regulations for forest protection, and an Indonesia’s Presidential decree, but would also lead to the release of large quantities of greenhouse gases.

Thick layers of peat underlie most of Indonesia’s swamp forest. Over time, the peat layer has locked up millions of tonnes of carbon. Once forests are cleared, peat swamps are drained and decompose to release the stored carbon as carbon dioxide. Forests are often also burned, prior to the planting of palm oil saplings, further compounding the climate problem.

Such is the scale of forest destruction across Indonesia that the huge amounts of greenhouse gases being emitted have made the country into the world’s third largest climate polluter, behind the US and China.

More than 30 volunteers will work for a week with people from the nearby village to construct the dams. By halting drainage operations, the dams will prevent the peatland from drying out and releasing carbon dioxide, the leading greenhouse gas. The dams will also prevent the palm oil company from illegally burning the currently waterlogged peatland, which would otherwise further add to global warming.

“Palm oil companies are breaking the law and draining the very life out of Indonesia’s remaining peatland forests,” said Hapsoro, Greenpeace South East Asia forest campaigner. “And they are adding substantially to the problem of global warming.”

The damming is taking place on a plantation held by the PT Duta Palma company. Our on-site investigations of the peatlands, conducted from the Forest Defenders Camp in Riau, and together with peatland experts, have brought to light the flagrant violations of regulations intended to protect these areas.

This urgent problem needs a global solution. We have set up the Forest Defenders Camp on the boundary of forest clearing in a region of Sumatra.

Check out life at the camp and why it’s there:

More about the camp and updates on their weblog.

In addition to efforts to highlight and halt peatland forest destruction in this one particular area, we are also attempting to promote long-term solutions to deforestation in Indonesia.

Indonesia will be hosting the next round of international climate talks in December. Governments from around the world will gather in Bali to negotiate about extending the Kyoto Protocol – the only international agreement containing legally-binding limits on greenhouse gas emissions.

We aim to ensure that deforestation is included in the next phase of the Kyoto agreement, extending beyond 2012. The decisions that governments make in the near future are critical for securing the financing and capacity needed by countries to safeguard their tropical forests and to allow them to make a serious contribution to global efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

We know it is possible to keep the worst impacts of climate change – such as extreme weather events, water crises and increased hunger – from putting millions of people at risk.

This will take a revolution in the way we use and produce energy, and a strong commitment to halt deforestation worldwide. More governments need to commit to tougher emissions reduction targets in the second phase of the Kyoto Protocol.

Source: http://www.greenpeace.org/international/news/indonesian-forest-destruction291007

Source: Greenpeace UK

http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/blog/climate/indonesia-gets-its-own-climate-change-camp-20071024

Climate change and deforestation are inextricably linked. Forest destruction contributes around one-fifth of all man-made greenhouse gas emissions, more than the entire global transport sector, and the problem is so severe that Indonesia and Brazil are ranked third and fourth respectively in the list of top emitting countries, mainly because of deforestation.

It’s against this background that our latest Forest Defenders Camp opened a couple of weeks ago on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, located on the frontline where the peatland forest is being cleared for palm oil plantations. Palm oil is used in hundreds of food and cosmetic products, as well as biofuels.

There are two reasons Indonesia was picked for this project. First, the forests of South East Asia are being destroyed faster than anywhere else on the planet. Industrial logging plus the expansion of the palm oil industry and the pulp and paper sector are to blame, which affects not only the people who live there and the biodiversity that the forest supports, but also the global climate. Both the forest itself and the thick layers of peat lying beneath it store millions of tonnes of carbon. The peat is cleared and drained to make the land suitable for palm oil plantations and, of course, this releases vast quantities of greenhouse gases.

The second reason is that in December Indonesia will play host to the United Nations Climate Change conference, the next round of international climate talks that will begin negotiations on an extension to the Kyoto Protocol. Strong measures to prevent deforestation have to be included as an essential part of any international climate change agreements, and the forest camp is the first stage in our plan to ensure that happens. As the Stern Review noted almost a year ago, “curbing deforestation is a highly cost-effective way to reduce emissions.”

As with previous camps, volunteers will be bearing witness to the destruction and taking steps to prevent it. Their plans include spotting and tackling forest fires, analysing the depth of the peat underneath the forest, and conducting a comprehensive assessment of biodiversity in the area.

We’ll be bringing you more about the camp, the road to Bali and palm oil in the coming weeks and months, and exploring in more depth the relationship between forests and the climate. Indonesia might seem very far away but, as with the Amazon and the Congo, the impacts of deforestation there reverberate around the world.

The Indonesian government is considering giving permission to five palm oil companies to convert 7% of the national park into oil palm plantations.

According to the world’s experts on orang-utan conservation, oil palm development in Indonesia poses the biggest threat to the survival of the orang-utan.

The conversion of parts of the national park would deeply damage the credibility of Indonesia’s commitment to biodiversity conservation.

There are already vast areas of abandoned land in the region, outside the national park, that have already been cleared of rainforest.

We believe that the development of oil palm plantations should only occur in these areas so long as:

* the rights of local communities are respected
* no more rainforest is converted to set up plantations

In this way the twin goals of economic development and conservation can both be met for Indonesia.

Please visit the Friends of the Earth website to learn more and email the letter to Indonesian Ambassador in the UK and ask him to pass on these concerns to the President of Indonesia.

Polar bears are starving and drowning as sea ice melts around them. Hawaiian monk seal pups are dying as their beaches disappear under rising seas. And penguin populations are declining as their world literally breaks up under their not-so-happy feet.

Unless we address the impacts of global warming, America’s wildlife are in trouble. Fortunately, the U.S. House of Representatives recently passed forward-looking energy legislation (H.R. 3221) that would take the important first steps needed to protect polar bears, monk seals and other wildlife from the harmful effects of global warming.

Send a message to your Senators today and urge them to support the Global Warming Survival Act!

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