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erreka
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Madera ilegal de la Amazonia (also in english)
      #1157551 - 04/23/08 12:21 PM

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Esta es una de las rutas que traen madera ilegal de la Amazonia a Europa.
La Unión Europea consume la mitad de la madera que se exporta desde la Amazonia. En Brasil, se estima que el 80% de la explotación forestal es ilegal... Europa se está comiendo la selva amazónica.
Cada ocho segundos desaparece una superficie equivalente a un campo de fútbol (más de 3 km2 a la hora). El ritmo de la deforestación: 43 árboles por segundo, es decir, 3.700.000 árboles al día.

"Amazon Place"

En el adjunto se ven los troncos apilados en varios puertos europeos.



'Route of illegal timber from the Amazon.
This is one of the routes that bring illegal wood from the Amazon to Europe.
The European Union consumes the half of the wood that is exported from the Amazon. In Brazil, it is believed that 80 % of the forest development is illegal... Europe is eating the Amazon forest.
Every eight seconds it destroys an area equivalent to a football pitch (more than 3 km2 an hour). The rhythm of the deforestation: 43 trees per second, that is to say, 3,700,000 trees a day.

In the attachment there are seen the trunks piled up in several European ports.'

Thanks Imp for translation.


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Re: Madera ilegal de la Amazonia (also in english) [Re: erreka]
      #1161727 - 04/30/08 02:56 PM

Some of the photos in this post are stunning - especially the last one (Ruta de la madera ilegal)

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Re: Madera ilegal de la Amazonia (also in english) [Re: erreka]
      #1164748 - 05/05/08 01:13 PM

Gotta make room for soybeans.. never mind that the whole biofuel thing causes more harm than any possible good, gotta make room for the beans..

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Re: Madera ilegal de la Amazonia (also in english) [Re: esterrett]
      #1169908 - 05/14/08 01:47 AM

Front line battle to save Amazon forest:
BBC News

Brazil's Environment Minister, Marina Silva, a staunch defender of the Amazon rainforest, has resigned from her post:
BBC News

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erreka
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Re: Madera ilegal de la Amazonia (also in english) [Re: Pragueimp]
      #1170309 - 05/14/08 06:40 PM

Lime and sand.
According to IBAMA, Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Natural Resources, results of 17 great operations in the Amazon, since 2003:
Seizure of about 1 million m3 of timber and hundreds of tractors, trucks and chainsaws used in illegal deforestation. Approximately $ 3 billion in fines.
Imprisonment of 650 people: 121 servers of IBAMA, other 19 public servants and 510 loggers and lobbyists. And about 1500 companies dismantled.

Cracking Down on Illegal Logging

BUT DEFORESTATION -legal and illegal- CONTINUES. And moreover...
Amazon rainforest defender in the Brazilian government Marina Silva has resigned. It seems the obstacles are so great that she can not continue doing her job. Ibama's president, Bazileu Alves Margarido Neto, also tendered his resignation. Bad news for environment.




Candidates of PT in 1986: Marina Silva, today ex-Environment minister, then candidate for federal deputy, Hélio Pimenta (deceased), Chico Mendes(assassinated in 1988), Matias (deceased) and Francisca Marinheiros.

Chico Mendes: explotaÇao madeireira


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Re: Madera ilegal de la Amazonia (also in english) [Re: erreka]
      #1173495 - 05/19/08 10:05 PM

Hello erreka

Thanks for an enlightening, well-illustrated post! Regarding the resignation of Marina Silva...
Quote:

It seems the obstacles are so great that she can not continue doing her job.



Indeed. It's the kind of cause that gets people killed - just one price of the resource frenzy in South America and Africa. The combination of extreme poverty in the southern hemisphere and high demand in the north is a powerful one. So awfully discouraging - the ones who are hungry are not going to stop working for illegal logging or mining operations. And it seems the ones who consume will have difficulty slowing down their demand. Overpopulation could guarantee failure on both hemispheres.

Keep informing us! It is encouraging that the environment has become a popular topic of conversation.

Best wishes,
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erreka
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Re: Madera ilegal de la Amazonia (also in english) [Re: diane9247]
      #1178312 - 05/28/08 07:00 AM

Thanks for your compliments, Diane. Let me deal it with Imp and Greenpeace.
If you want, you can see another post on the mahogany illegal trade El oro rojo de Madre de Dios . Sorry but it´s only in the language of Cervantes because I am not mastered in English, yet.

erreka.

Tambopata river, Madre de Dios (photo: Frans Lanting).

Look at this map about forest loss.



If the net forest loss of all territories between 1990 and 2000 is summed, 31% occurred in South America, and 21% was in Asia Pacific. Worldwide, territories with net forest loss lost 1.33 million km2 of forest over this ten year period. Despite this, South America was the region with the largest forested area in the world in 2000. The more forest area there is, the more it is possible to lose.

Japan is unexceptional, having neither forest loss nor forest growth from 1990 to 2000.

The area of Africa covered by forest was reduced by 550 000 km2 in the 1990s. This includes the loss of forests that covered 11.4% of Zambian land.

Territory size shows the proportion of worldwide net forest loss that occurred there between 1990 and 2000.

"Indonesia is blessed with some of the most extensive and biologically diverse tropical forests in the world. But the tragedy is that Indonesia has one of the highest rates of tropical forest loss in the world." E.G. Togu Manurung, 2006


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Madera y Oxigeno en Uruguay [Re: erreka]
      #1179556 - 05/30/08 11:01 AM

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En Uruguay , tambien los bañados los estan talando en silencio y no es el estado es gente por nesecidad (Carrasco, Toledo, Solis de Mataojo .. etc)



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Edited by crewchispa (06/02/08 04:09 AM)


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Re: Madera Urruguay [Re: crewchispa]
      #1180160 - 05/31/08 12:46 PM

Hi crewchispa

This link doesn't appear to work, if you save your file to your PC, you can attach to your post.


Este enlace no parece que el trabajo, si guarda el archivo a su PC, usted puede adjuntar a su cargo.

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Re: Madera Urruguay [Re: Noisette]
      #1180619 - 06/01/08 08:27 AM

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where are the marks are now cutting hope that this well, apology is not English and translated by google tralador not have contact with Urruguay who are on this issue

las marcas son donde estan talando espero que ahora este bien, disculpa no se ingles y es traducido por google tralador no tenemos contacto con Urrugguayos que esten en este tema

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Re: Madera Uruguay [Re: Noisette]
      #1181128 - 06/02/08 04:19 AM

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Hi Nose
supongo que ahoa esta bien

Edited by crewchispa (07/04/08 07:41 AM)


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erreka
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Re: Madera Uruguay [Re: crewchispa]
      #1227463 - 09/01/08 06:10 PM

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Hola crewchispa.

No sólo es la gente la que corta árboles por necesidad, son las transnacionales las que tienen mayor responsabilidad en la destrucción de bosques protegidos.
Es el caso de la empresa española ENCE que abandonó su proyecto de planta en Fray Bentos, debido al conflicto de la Papelera Botnia, para relocalizarlo en la playa de Punta Pereira, junto a la localidad de Conchillas, dónde va a construir una planta procesadora de celulosa que será una de las más grandes del mundo.

Terminal M’Bopicuá

Hace pocos días se difundió la noticia de la suspensión temporal ordenada por el Ministerio de Ganadería, Agricultura y Pesca (MGAP) uruguayo de todos los trámites de la empresa española ENCE ante la Dirección Forestal por la tala ilegal de cerca de 80 hectáreas de monte indígena, incluidos árboles centenarios, en Paysandú para destinarlas a la plantación de eucaliptos.

Este hecho es muy grave, dado que el monte indígena está expresamente protegido por la ley 15.939 y su tala solo puede hacerse mediante la autorización del MGAP, con la que en este caso Ence no contó. De acuerdo con la información aportada por el MGAP, las áreas taladas habían sido especialmente marcadas para ser conservadas en los permisos que la empresa obtuvo para talar otras zonas.

Al mismo tiempo, cabe señalar que este hecho es apenas una cuenta más en el largo rosario de violaciones ambientales de Ence, que arranca en la España franquista y continúa hasta nuestros días. Recientemente, luego de una larga lucha, las organizaciones españolas lograron que en junio de este año se suspendiera la certificación (bajo el sello FSC) de las plantaciones de eucaliptos de Ence en España, por hechos similares al ahora constatado en Uruguay.
Mariscadoras junto a la planta de ENCE en Pontevedra

Finalmente, es probable que estas 80 hectáreas sean apenas la punta del iceberg. Por un lado, porque las denuncias sostienen que la deforestación fue de unas 300-400 hectáreas a lo largo de unos 15 kms del río Queguay, en los establecimientos La Gambeta, Los Gurises y Las Pampas. Por otro lado, porque en mayo ediles de Paysandú denunciaron la tala de monte indígena por parte de ENCE en la zona de Guichón.
Como elemento agravante de la conducta de la empresa, corresponde señalar la forma en que se hizo la deforestación. El primer paso fue la quema, seguida de la tala y de la disposición de los restos de los árboles en fosas de 3 metros de ancho y 2 metros de profundidad, dispuestas en franjas a 100 metros una de la otra y recubiertas con tosca. O sea, que el operativo apuntó a ocultar el cuerpo del delito.

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Eduardo Galeano, escritor uruguayo, en Canal 5 el 15/01/2007: "A mí la idea de convertir al Uruguay en un centro mundial de producción de celulosa me parece un disparate total. Creo que es un disparate convertir al Uruguay en un centro mundial de producción de celulosa porque la celulosa es devastadora. Entre otras cosas, nos va a dejar sin agua. Acá se hizo el único plebiscito en el mundo -el único en el mundo- por el tema del agua, que declaró que el agua es un bien público. Las plantaciones forestales industriales nos van a dejar sin una gota. Es un modo de traicionar la voluntad popular del plebiscito expresado".


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