Save The Green and Pleasant Land …

As a former Brit who most definitely values what’s left of England’s ‘green and pleasant land’ , the situation described below is of particular concern, so I hope you will consider adding your name to this EI campaign.

I should also say that EI have been an active voice in raising the pulp mill issue globally, so they are seriously deserving of whatever support you may wish to consider offering in their many worldwide forest and environmental campaigns.

Subject: FORESTS ALERT! Stop UK Government’s Grand Forest Sell-off, Urge Protection and Restoration for the People’s Old Forests

EI 11th Annual Year-End Fund-Raiser Update: 23% to goal, $17,566 raised from 153 donors. EI needs your support to continue our unique and highly effective biocentric, ecological activism. Please donate now at: http://forests.org/shared/donate/

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ACTION ALERT PLEASE SHARE WIDELY!

Stop UK Government’s Grand Forest Sell-off, Urge Protection and Restoration for the People’s Old Forests

By Forests.org, a project of Ecological Internet
November 11, 2010

TAKE ACTION HERE NOW:
http://forests.org/shared/alerts/send.aspx?id=uk-forest-giveaway

The UK government plans to put half of England’s state-owned forests up for sale to private firms to raise billions to reduce the budget deficit and as a give-away to the nascent biomass industry. Ancient woodlands, regenerating natural forests and planted trees all provide important ecosystems and could be chopped down to make way for holiday villages, golf courses and commercial logging. This is theft of the English cultural heritage with woodlands and natural landscapes. Instead the UK government should fully protect many of these woodlands, fund forest ecological restoration and native plantation establishment, and strive in haste to get to 25% forest cover and beyond for their own ecological sustainability.

DISCUSS THIS ALERT:
http://www.facebook.com/ecointernet & http://forests.org/blog/

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forests at http://www.rainforestportal.org/shared/donate/
Anne