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Ecuador:
Ley Forestal
Acción Ecológica - World Rainforest Movement
junio de 2006
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Urgent support to the people of Ecuador!! A process under the name of “National Dialogue on Forestry Control” is presently taking place in Ecuador. This process is considered to be illegitimate as it has not involved the main actors directly affected by the destruction of their forests. In fact, what is being sought, as in so many other countries, is to change the existing forestry policy to favour the timber industry. For this reason on 9 June a group of social and indigenous organizations delivered a letter to the Minister of the Environment requesting, among other things, the immediate suspension of this non-participative “dialogue.” (The full letter in Spanish is available at: http://www.wrm.org.uy/paises/Ecuador/CartaMAE.pdf) Ecuadorian organizations are requesting urgent support from organizations from around the world to join them in the demands being made to the Minister and to request that the WRONGLY named “National Dialogue on Forestry Control” be definitively cancelled. For this purpose, we have prepared a model letter (copy here below), that can be used as a basis for your messages. These should be sent to the Minister of the Environment with copy to the organizations involved in the promotion of this process. The parties involved are, respectively:
Ing. Jorge Rodríguez Biólogo Alberto
Salas Ing. Eduardo Mansur Ing. Ignacio Bustos Ing. Kees van Dijk Dr. Herman Savenije Pamela Cox Steven Stone Please send a copy
of your messages to ************ Place and date Señora Dra. Dear Madam, We address you to inform you about our concern over the process of the National Dialogue for Forestry Control that is taking place in Ecuador and which has recently been brought to our attention. We have been informed by Ecuadorian organizations that this process does not include important actors, who are directly affected by the destruction of forests, neither does it include grass-roots or national organizations. We also know that majority representativity in this process corresponds to the timber industry and for this reason the discussions are centred on the formulation of a forestry policy to increase the area of plantations (deregulation) and on stepping up incentives for plantations. This openly benefits the timber industry and does not solve the basic aspect of the call, which is forestry control. For this reason and based on our own experience in this type of process, we categorically reject such “forestry dialogue” and support the demands submitted by the Ecuadorian organizations. We also request that this process be definitively suspended and a new call made for a dialogue with true representation, participation and consent, as set out by the Ecuadorian organizations in the letter addressed to you on 9 June. We expect this demand
be addressed as soon as possible.
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Movimiento Mundial por los Bosques Tropicales
Maldonado 1858
11200 Montevideo - Uruguay
tel: 598 2 413 2989 / fax: 598 2 410 0985
wrm@wrm.org.uy
