*[Enwl-eng] Save Europe's green lungs

[ENWL]

It is not only the Amazon. Virgin forests are in danger also in Europe. This 
petition was launched on our YouMove platform by Euronatur and Agent Green. 
We think you might be interested in it.

      The Romanian government allows the devastation of Europe’s largest 
untouched forests in national parks and ‘Natura 2000’ areas - to sell the 
wood to timber corporations. We are meeting the Romanian authorities on 
Monday to say the logging must stop now!

      Sign the petition
Hi,

Virgin forests are in danger! Vast areas are being logged right now in 
Romania - against EU law. We must act now if we don’t want to lose Europe’s 
green lungs.

In just a couple of hours we will meet with the Romanian government and will 
have a chance to demand that the devastation is stopped immediately!

            Save the forests. Sign!


Logging in Romania is out of control — wonderful, untouched forests in 
national parks, Natura 2000 sites, and buffer zones of UNESCO World Heritage 
sites are all being logged and lost, both legally and illegally, often with 
the full permission and support of the Romanian government. [1]

But we can stop it. If we publicise this tragedy all over Europe, the 
Romanian PM will have to listen. We will deliver the petition to the 
romanian authorities and, in order to make more noise, also to the European 
Commission and the European Parliament.

The pressure must come from different countries to show the Romanian PM that 
the forests belong to everyone. By signing this petition you will contribute 
to persuading the Romanian authorities to stop the logging.

            Sign the petition!


The forests under threat grow in the Carpathian Mountains, Europe’s third 
longest mountain range. Mixed mountain forests of beech and spruce, and at 
higher altitudes, coniferous mountain forests with black pines and Alpine 
meadows - they are home to the EU’s largest and healthiest populations of 
brown bears, wolves, lynx, chamois and red deer.

The threat comes mainly from Romania’s state funded forestry company, 
Romsilva, which prioritises logging over conservation and is given full 
consent by authorities in Bucharest. Biofuels and the timber industry are 
driving the logging. Many of the biggest international companies benefit 
from its scale. [2]

We have shown numerous times that we can mobilise to protect natural 
treasures all over Europe and that saving forests is our priority. We fight 
for the Kresna gorge in Bulgaria and we massively supported the successful 
action to save the Białowieża forest in Poland. Not to mention our action to 
protect the Amazon! [3] So let’s do it again and save the green lungs of 
Europe.

            Save the forests. Sign!


Thank you!
Marta (Warsaw), Olga (Bolonia), Jörg (Lubeck) and the entire WeMove team

PS. Romanian forests are carbon reserves, gene banks, scientific 
laboratories, oxygen factories and home for numerous threatened species, 
some found nowhere else on earth. Our generation has the responsibility to 
save nature for future generations. Sign and save the forests!



References:
[1] 
https://wilderness-society.org/logging-in-romanian-virgin-forest-continues/
https://www.saveparadiseforests.eu/de/video-3/
[2] 
https://www.saveparadiseforests.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/EuroNatur_AG_briefer_web.pdf
[3] https://act.wemove.eu/campaigns/no-to-mercosur



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From: Marta - WeMove.EU
Sent: Sunday, September 01, 2019 1:39 PM
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