Orangutans Online

On January 10^th the European Commission is scheduled to vote on sanctioning the Biomass Action Plan. In a nutshell this would be sanctioning the continuing and increased use of biofuels, promoting it as a green alternative to traditional fuels. However biofuels will conclusively cause ever greater deforestation, biodiversity losses, or evictions and impoverishment of local communities. Of course all these three things will accelerate the extinction of the orangutan, and notwithstanding this unrestrained biofuel expansion will accelerate, not slow down climate change, as peatlands and rainforests across the world are converted to energy crop monocultures and release their carbon in the process.

Please visit the site below to register your opposition to this plan, either by use of the pre-prepared letter or by personal e-mail to the relevant dignitaries mentioned there.

http://www.regenwald.org/protestaktion.php?id=124