Urgent Threat to Peruvian Rain Forest - 生態環境討論

Action deadline: immediately

Dear Sean,

We urgently need your help. The president of Peru is poised to sign a decree
that would undermine efforts to stop the destruction of millions of acres of
rain forest in Peru. The highly threatened jaguar, the harpy eagle, and the
giant river otter are just some of the creatures that need these special places.

FOLLOW THE SIMPLE STEPS BELOW TO SEND A FREE MESSAGE URGING THE PRESIDENT NOT TO
SIGN THE DECREE.

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Dear President Toledo:

I urge you not to extend the 1,000-hectare, small-scale logging permits in Peru.

Peru's Congress let these damaging and outdated logging permits expire on March
31, 2003. Ending these permits is vitally important to the health of Peru's
forests. Extending them would completely undermine years of work to protect
Peru's ecologically-rich rain forests. The small-scale permits provide a huge
loophole for illegal and unsustainable logging.

Small-scale permits are decimating some of the richest and largest tracts of
intact tropical rain forest in the world. The current rate of deforestation in
Peru is an alarming 260,000 hectares per year. These forests harbor threatened
species of high commercial value such as mahogany and cedar, and also provide
habitat for wildlife such as the highly threatened jaguar, the harpy eagle, and
the giant river otter.

As long as the small-scale permits remain, larger and sustainable forest
concessions will not be economically viable. These concessions must be granted
through a transparent, public bidding process and managed according to a forest
management plan. The positive result is that concessionaires manage these
forests in a way that conserves biological diversity and maintains ecosystem
functioning, while providing sustainable economic resources to the local
populations whose livelihoods are critically linked to forestry. Concessions
are expected to result in nearly 5 million hectares being sustainably managed.

Instead of extending the 1,000 hectare small-scale permits, please do all you
can to ensure that forestry in Peru is sustainable.

Sincerely,

Your name and address
will be inserted here

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