its only when all the trees are gone that we (or rather they?)will value
them!
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 3:36 PM, Tahir <tahir@xxxxxxxxxx.net> wrote:
Well, I have donated previously, just not for a couple of years, my
favourite charities are TreeAid, WaterAid, MSF and Practical Action. I get
the kids to donate half their christmas money to charity so should have a
bit of wonga next week :)
I'll post about whatever project we choose, but I'll be honest there's not
much hope of preserving naturally forested landscapes in most of the world:
Brazil - Rules relaxed to allow more rainforest to be ripped up
Indonesia - still plenty of deforestation going on
Pakistan/India - Loads of trees being ripped up for population growth and
development
Tasmania - old growth forest being logged for woodchip!!! (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Old-growth_forest<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old-growth_forest>
)
North America - plenty of old growth forest still being logged (
http://salsa.**democracyinaction.org/o/1780/**
p/dia/action3/common/public/?**action_KEY=8605<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/1780/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=8605>
)
Central Asia - Cradle of orchard fruits almost gone (
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/**sci/tech/8036785.stm<http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8036785.stm>
)
I guess in the Western world we're replanting, can't see much chance of
that in Asia
Tahir
p.s. Apologies for depressing everyone so close to Christmas.
On 21/12/2011 15:08, Ben Maxted wrote:
attaboy Tahir!
I was in Overseas aid as a semi-arid zone forest/agriculturalist for @11
years and did a Masters in Food security and famine economics. If i can be
of any assistance I should be delighted to be so.
Ben
ps Kew are still active in this area I believe?
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