But this has not stopped Asian foresters lighting even more fires. Some of these areas are not virgin forest, simply because deforestation is already so extensive, but the wildlife destruction is immense. Environmentalists monitoring satellite pictures said between 500,000 and 600,000 ha was burning or had already been destroyed. If we do not combine to make a watershed for biodiversity now there will be a lot worse to come. The Amazon is already going up in smoke far too fast as it is.
Habitat destruction is the key cause of biodiversity genocide.
We participated in good faith in Rio, but Rio has come an gone and destruction of Earth's natural habitat continues to accelerate. To work together to create an event which shows the world what ecofeminism and the power of cooperation can do. Please send offers of help, catalysis and support. We need grant funding, sponsorship and cooperative involvement to make this a turning point for biodiversity. Governments are lagging badly in meeting goals set at the 1992 Rio de Janeiro summit, the World-Watch Institute said in its annual global review released yesterday.