Read the letter by scientists to President Biden, Secretary Haaland, Senator Schumer, and Advisor Zaidi – to oppose legislation that would privatize 115,200 acres of Alaska’s Tongass National Forest, opening up more than 80,000 acres of old-growth forests to logging, mining and other natural resource extraction interests.
Scientists call for a moratorium to protect Mature and Old Growth, and large trees.
Scientists urge Canada’s Prime Minister Trudeau to now recognize and address forest degradation domestically, properly defined according to ecological, rather than economic, indicators, and to support, rather than hinder, global policymaking that advances efforts to halt and reverse forest degradation, in alignment with the Glasgow Declaration.
The Biden administration is thankfully preparing for the climate meetings in Glasgow and will soon announce it’s climate commitments. 111 scientists, led by Dr. Dominick DellaSala, Wild Heritage, are asking the president to set aside the nation’s most carbon and bio-rich older forests beginning with the Tongass in Alaska.
500 scientists, led by Dr. Peter Raven, Director Emeritus of the Missouri Botanical Society in St. Louis, Missouri USA, signed a letter to the Biden administration, the EU and the UN against burning forests as biofuels.
