ACTION
ALERT
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WORLDWIDE
FOREST/BIODIVERSITY CAMPAIGN NEWS
Polish
Efforts to Expand National Park Needs Your Assistance
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The
following alert is a little skimpy on details, but nonetheless
important. For many years there has been an active
forest
conservation
movement in Poland which now asks your assistance in
conserving
some of the largest forest expanses in Europe.
This was
passed
on by my partner organization, Rainforest Information Center
of
Australia ( http://forests.org/ric/ ).
g.b.
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Title: Assistance necessary to finalize Bialowieza
expansion
Source: Workshop for All Beings, Poland; via
Rainforest Information
Centre ( http://forests.org/ric/ )
Status: Copyright 1999, contact source for
permission to reprint
Date: September 22, 1999
Friends,
please write a letter or fax as described below. The
expansion
of the Bialowieza National Park is of international
significance. Please email a copy of your letter or fax to
the folks
at
Workshop for All Beings who have been working for more than 10
years
for Bialowieza.
for the
Earth - John Seed
Rainforest
Information Centre
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>From
wapienica@pnrwi.most.org.pl Wed Sep 22
07:15:13 1999 From:
"PNRWI
- Wapienica" <wapienica@pnrwi.most.org.pl> Subject:
September
22, 1999
Dear
John,
Warmest
greetings from all of us here at Workshop for All Beings in
Poland. Today we are contacting you to request your
assistance in a
vitally
important matter related to Bialowieza National Park and its
position
as a priority for the Polish government.
Several
months ago, Poland's Vice-Premier approved budget
appropriations
for an enlargement of Bialowieza National Park to six
times
its current size.
The
enlargement, publicized internationally by the Polish government
as the
Contract for Bialoweiza, is to occur prior to the end of this
year
and will help the protected area of Bialowieza grow from 105 km2
to 600
km2, becoming the largest National Park in Poland.
International
support has greatly strengthened the Bialowieza forest
protection
and enlargement efforts.
However,
months of inaction have led to no further progress on the
part of
the Polish Ministry of Environmental Protection, Forestry,
and
Natural Resources, which is responsible for Polish National
Parks. Process requires that the Polish Cabinet
receive a decree for
Bialowieza's
expansion from the Ministry. This
establishment of a
decree
for Bialowieza National Park is an indispensable step
according
to Polish law, but the decree has yet to be made.
Workshop
for All Beings asks you to draft a letter in support of the
expansion
of Bialowieza National Park and send it to Poland's Prime
Minister
Jerzy Buzek. In your letter, please
question why the
Cabinet
has not received a formal decree from the Ministry of
Environmental
Protection, Forestry, and Natural Resources.
Please
urge
that this be completed as soon as possible.
Prime Minister
Jerzy
Buzek can be reached at the following address:
Al.
Ujazdowskie 1/3,
00-583
Warsaw,
POLAND;
fax:
International + 48-22-6286846.
For our
campaign records, we would greatly appreciate receiving a
copy of
letters that are sent to the Polish Prime Minister. On
behalf
of the wildlands and wildlife that are Bialowieza, we thank
you for
taking the time to show your support.
For
Wild Bialowieza,
Janusz
Korbel, and the Staff and Membership of Workshop for All
Beings
P.O.Box 40
43-304
Bielsko-Biala 4
POLAND
Tel/fax:
048-33-8183153
e-mail:
wapienica@pnrwi.most.org.pl
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