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Announcing...
GAIA FOREST ARCHIVES
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World Wide Web, Gopher and Anonymous FTP access to hundreds
of PNG & Worldwide Forest Conservation Information Pieces
Brought to you by
Ecological Enterprises' Forest Networking Project
Last Updated 4/30/95
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The internet is rescaling the world ecologically. Amongst the
wealth of information available is significant resources on the
World's rainforests, biodiversity and indigenous environmental
movements.
PNG RAINFOREST CAMPAIGN NEWS
The PNG forests directory is an archive of the PNG RAINFOREST
CAMPAIGN NEWS, which provides in depth coverage, on average 3
items a week, of the efforts to save Papua New Guinea's and
adjacent Melanesian countries' rainforests and cultures from
industrial logging. As well as being posted to reg.newguinea in
econet, this list is currently being distributed to 200+ academics
and activists around the world as a mailing list and through
electronic bulletin boards. This list has been active for nearly
5 years, and is breaking ground on uniting concerned Northern
citizenry with Southern local communities fighting to save their
biological riches.
WORLDWIDE FOREST/BIODIVERSITY CAMPAIGN NEWS
Ecological Enterprises has collected a wealth of forest campaign
information gathered on the internet over the past 5 year period.
Many are from econet's vast bulletin board system. (For further
information on EcoNet membership, a nonprofit online system, send
any message to <econet-info@igc.apc.org>). For example, there is
much information on Brazil, Canada, and Malaysia's forests and
efforts to conserve them. Currently there are over 20 different
countries/folders on the server.
The materials are unabashedly activist in content and scope;
hoping to provide opportunities for North/South partnerships to
save forests and biodiversity. Ecological action on the internet
helps provide a feeling of community to isolated groups of forest
activists. Human components of Gaia are made increasingly
connected through nearly instantaneous information exchange;
potentially greatly aiding our efforts to pull human society into
sustainability.
To access any of the over one thousand information pieces,
interested folks need to have a direct internet connection or
slip/ppp capability, in order to run World Wide Web (WWW), Gopher
or FTP.
For WWW access, use the following URL:
http://gaia1.ies.wisc.edu/research/pngfores/
Using a FTP or GOPHER package, just point the gopher program
to the GAIA1.IES.WISC.EDU server. The Forest information is in
the "Faculty and Graduate Student Research" <pub/research>
directory. WAIS Indexes are being constructed.
Let us know if you would like to be added to the email lists for
which this is the archives. Got to have Gaia Now!
Forest Networking a project of:
Glen Barry Ecological Enterprises 2701 University Ave., B-368
Madison, WI 53705 USA
phone- (608) 233 2194 fax-(608) 233 2193 emails-
gbarry@macc.wisc.edu or switpi@igc.apc.org
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