July 2002, By Forests.org, Inc., http://forests.org/
The World Bank has released its long awaited draft policy on forests. The proposed policy threatens most of the world's remaining forests with environmentally damaging industrial forest management financed by taxpayers through the World Bank. It severely weakens the existing Operational (OP) Policy on Forests of 1993. Environmental group pressure led to the current policy that bans Bank funding of logging in primary moist tropical forests.
Over the past several years, the World Bank has aggressively sought to resume financing of "sustainable forest management" activities in the World's dwindling primary forests, particularly in the tropics. This would require revision of the Bank's existing forest policy. The proposed new policy opens the door to financing of large scale timber export and plantation based carbon sequestration projects, does not secure land tenure for indigenous peoples, and shows little potential to promote forest conservation. It is inappropriate for the World Bank to subsidize rainforest destruction. Please tell them so by registering your concern during their comment period at:
http://forests.org/emailaction/bank.htm
By Forests.org, Inc. http://forests.org
ONLY 3 MORE DAYS TO STOP WORLD BANK FUNDED RAINFOREST DESTRUCTION!!
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