TAKE ACTION: WWF is the world’s largest ancient forest logging apologist; actively promoting questionable “certified, sustainable” logging in Guyana, Russia and — and may be the World’s greatest threat facing endangered ancient forests
For many years the international conservation group WWF has supported Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certification that first-time logging of ancient primary and old-growth forests is “sustainable”. Millions of hectares of intact, large rainforest ecosystems have been and are being heavily industrially logged for the first time with WWF and FSC’s stamp of approval. Ecological Internet (EI) recently reported upon Samling of Malaysia’s activities in Guyana under the name of Barama, which received significant international bank financing based upon assurances provided by WWF and an FSC certificate of good forest management. Sadly, WWF’s partnering with this particular rainforest destroyer in Guyana is not at all unique. Similar large-scale, often illegal and highly socially and environmentally destructive logging of ancient forests in the Congo basin countries, Russia, and Indonesia continue with the blessing of WWF and FSC as their official policy. WWF’s greenwashing, and propagation and subsidizing of the myth of “sustainable ancient forest logging”, may be the greatest threat to the world’s remaining ancient forests. TAKE ACTION