Here is an appeal from Rainforest
Rescue asking for support for their petition opposing logging in
the Selous Game Reserve, Tanzania.
'Dear friends of the
rainforests,
It's the African wilderness
of our hearts: savannah and woodlands under a huge sky,
herds of elephants wandering the grasslands and lions dozing in the
shade. And soon - men with bulldozers and chainsaws.
Tanzania wants to build a
dam in the heart of Selous Game Reserve.
No one knows how the dam will be
financed or who will build it, yet the government wants to push the
half-baked project past the point of no return by clearing
1,500 square kilometers of forest and savannah - an area the size
of London - and felling 2.6 million trees in the heart of
Selous. The ecological damage would be unimaginable.
Please sign our petition (click here for details) and
tell the Tanzanian government to drop this disastrous plan
NOW.'