Forest Campaign

Movie screening

You are invited to the UK Premiere of the award-winning campaigning film about illegal logging in Siberia.

Title: For Sale: Standing Timber
Author: NGO Baikal Environmental Wave, Irkutsk, East Siberia
When: 8th December, doors open at 7pm, film starts at 7:30pm
Where: Haringey, Green Leans Studio, N4 1SF, London
Donation: £5

Description: As part of the International Year of the Forest, Look East Wild Earth have organised for this eye-opening documentary to be shown at the wonderful Green Lens Studio in Haringey on 8th December.

A fifth of the world's forest cover exists in Russia, and is under acute threat from illegal logging. Bravely taking us through his working days, former forestry worker turned illegal timber hauler Vasiliy Morozov exposes just how widespread corruption in the forest sector is, how it undermines legislation, and enables the decimation huge swathes of old growth boreal forest with the perpetrators going largely unpunished.The film follows the entire supply chain - from the forest to a processing plant in China - and will give you a glimpse into what is happening to the trees of Russia's boreal forests, forests not inaccurately called one of the earth's lungs.

We invite you to join us in marking the international year of the forest for an evening of film, spoken word and cups of SiberianForest Tea. Join us in learning about the plight of the Siberianboreal forest. This "evening in the forests" is part of a European-wide project with activities taking place in Czech Republic, Albania, Finland, Russia and Portugal, and we at Look East Wild Earth would be honoured for you to attend the UK's offering.

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On the World Habitat Day, October the 6th, EDEN Center transmitted the awareness message for the protection of forests. This initiative is a continuation of a series of activities taking place within the Forest Campaign, supported by the European Youth Foundation of the Council of Europe. The place that was chosen for this activity was at the hills of the Tirana Grand lake Park, one of the few green places in the capital. This park is the lungs of the capital and offers the citizens the opportunity to spend relaxing hours near the nature around.

During the morning hours of this day the volunteers of the EDEN center distributed the forest campaign raising awareness materials with the message for the forest protection and so automatically the protection of habitats. The awareness activity was done in the form of small conversations with the general public visiting the park that morning. On one of the benches, EDEN volunteers and also the interested public were painting and then distributing cotton bags as an alternative to reduce the usage of plastic bags in Albania which is a serious problem for the habitats.

We still have time and energy to think about the future of the Earth, since the desire to spend relaxing hours near forest belongs not only to us but to our children as well.

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