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Solana Beach to Protect Tropical Forest February 2009
If we don't act to
save this forest, within a few years it will be gone
NCI and the city of Solana
Beach, California have joined forces to preserve a pristine area
of tropical forest in southern Ecuador, focusing on areas of priority
determined by the Ministry of Environment, and watersheds important
to municipalities. After unanimous approval by the City Council
on February 11th, the Solana Beach
program allows residents and businesses to contribute to this program
to conserve endangered forest – which will also sequester
and reduce greenhouse gases. One of the causes of the pressure
on these forests is the US policy on biofuels, which has dramatically
raised the price of corn with consequent deforestation and negative
climate consequences. Believed to be the first of its kind in the
United States, this municipal program will support NCI’s work
with local communities to conserve the vanishing tropical deciduous
forest in Southwestern Ecuador. Logging and corn-based ethanol continue
to threaten what little remains of this type of forest in Ecuador,
of which less than 5 percent remain. According to Ivan Gayler, Founder
of NCI, "If we don't act to save this forest, within a few
years it will be gone.”
Beach
program allows residents and businesses to contribute to this program
to conserve endangered forest – which will also sequester
and reduce greenhouse gases.