Thrilling Rainforest Victory for Karawari Indigenous Cave Art, the Great Nation of Papua New Guinea, and EcoInternet
EcoInternet and you have helped save Karawari, Papua New Guinea’s unique cave art and rainforests. Pleas support
EcoInternet’s resurgent campaign to protect and restore old-growth forests including ending all primary forest logging
in the Pacific Islands and globally at:http://forests.org/shared/donate/
“First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.” Mahatma Gandhi
(Honolulu, Hawaii) – EcoInternet is thrilled to announce that our international campaign to save the ancient Karawari
indigenous cave art and adjoining rainforests from mining in Papua New Guinea [1] has been successful. Certainly the
exemplary organizing by local residents to resist Australia and Malaysian mining and logging interests was the primary
reason plans to mine the area have been dropped for now [2]. Yet several thousand people from 110 countries sending some
238,629 protest emails through EcoInternet are widely acknowledged to have had significant positive impact on the
outcome as well.
“EcoInternet specializes in internationalizing local environmental protest, and over the past two decades we have had a
hand in saving vast tracts of rainforests globally, particularly in Papua New Guinea (PNG). Virtually every community in
rainforest rich PNG is threatened by some deceptive ploy to steal their resources while leaving local peoples destitute.
We hope that being based in Honolulu, Hawaii, EcoInternet is better placed to help end this type of ecocidal development
in the Pacific once and for all,” explains EcoInternet President, Dr. Glen Barry.
EcoInternet is a registered 501c3 non-profit, and is entirely dependent upon users for financial support. EcoInternet
has recently raised a modest $12,000 and are trying to raise another $2,500 before the end of January when the 2014
year-end fund-raiser wraps up. Please donate what you can at http://forests.org/shared/donate/.
You support will help EcoInternet in their current Papua New Guinea rainforest campaign to “Protect Woodlark Island’s
Pacific Rainforests and Indigenous Forest Gardens from Corrupt Logging” at http://forests.org/shared/alerts/sendsm.aspx?id=png_woodlark. The island’s intact rainforests, cultures, and indigenous perma-culture are threatened by the Malaysian timber mafia,
as corruption ravages the nation. It is time to end ecosystem destroying resource thievery falsely labeled as
development in the Pacific Islands.
ENDS