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Save Bialowieza Forest, Europe's Last Primeval Temperate Forest

Forests.org a project of Ecological Internet
http://forests.org/
January 6, 2008

TAKE ACTION
Demand the Polish government stop exploitation of the ancient
Bialowieza forest, preserve the whole complex as a national
park, and end permanently extensive logging that threatens
Europe's last remnant old-growth northern temperate forests

http://www.ecoearth.info/alerts/send.asp?id=poland

Situated on the Polish/Belarussian border, the Bialowieza
Forest is a priceless relic of lowland European forests, a
place where the last fragments of primeval temperate old-
growth forest on the Central European lowland have survived.
It is home to many species extinct elsewhere including the
European Bison, the largest terrestrial mammal of Europe; and
also contains lynx, wolves and other threatened wildlife and
plants. Yet approximately 90% of the forest remains
unprotected... For many years environmental NGOs, scientists,
concerned citizens in Poland and abroad have asked successive
Polish governments to protect the forest, asking them to ban
cutting of old growth and for enlargement of the Bialowieza
National Park to protect the whole forest complex. Until now
there has been little success. After the autumn elections
Poland has a new government, so we are trying anew. Please
help influence Polish politicians by sending the protest email
below. After doing so please note the exciting update on our
New York City rainforest timber campaign.

TAKE ACTION NOW:
http://www.ecoearth.info/alerts/send.asp?id=poland

DISCUSS ALERT:
http://forests.org/blog/2008/01/alert-save-bialowieza-forest-e.asp