CONGRATULATION GREENPEACEl SANTANDER STOPPED DESTRUCTION OF RAINFORESTS -- Update 12 June, 2015

ORANG  UTAN

LATEST NEWS -  12 June, 2015 -- Greenpeace had further talks with APRIL and they decided now to stop the deforestation completely. It is fantastic good news because hundred thousands of acres of ancient rainforest will be saved.


UPDATE:  27 February, 2015 --  Good News UK Santander promised to pull out backing APRIL.  Whether that means all the backing and if their promise is true and immediately, remains to be seen. At least Greenpeace received that promise. It also remains to be seen whether the other backers are pulling out. Banks and Financials world seem to have lost principles these days. 

UPDATE: 20 February, 2015 -- As much as Greenpeace keeps pressuring Santander they still buying time  by saying they awaiting APRIL's report. This is not good enough because every day another piece of rainforest is lost forever. It has to be stopped immediately to avoid another part of the rainforest  gone forever. Greenpeace is trying to get an appointment with the top chief executive but, unfortunately, it is still another day lost and with that a piece of rainforest.  Santander could have stopped it weeks and months ago when Greenpeace started contacting them.

Right now, digger are cutting down Indonesia’s rainforest and pushing Oran Utan, tigers, sun bears and many other species towards extinction.

The banking group Santander is backing APRIL a pulp and paper company with millions of pounds to destroy Indonesia’s rainforest.

Tell Santander to stop final extinction or you will withdraw your account but tell them why.

Over the last few years Santander have loaned millions to APRIL which chopping down Indonesia’s rainforest at an alarming rate. If Santander wants to be responsible company, it needs to end the loans now and this would hot APRIL where it hurts most – in the pockets.

If you like to sign the competition please click on 

 www.greenpeace.org.uk/santander

which takes you straight to the competition to sign.  It would be great to receive signatures, as many as possible. It would increase the pressure to stop. 

IF THAT DOES NOT MAKE YOUR 

HEART BLEED, NOTHING WILL

Greenpeace forced already Santander to admit that they support APRIL financially but the High Street branches say it’s monitoring the situation and will act accordingly. It is nothing but a white wash and playing for time. So far Santander used to deny them financial support to APRIL. While all this was and is going on the rainforest has been cut down and that was exactly what they were playing at. Only after 75,000 of Greenpeace took action Santander admitted their financial support but still refuses to stop.

According to Greenpeace APRIL had been destroying rainforest for years. It is not known how long Santander advanced loans to them.

Santander said it is waiting for APRIL’s results of a sustainable forest management which is an again a white wash and playing for time. It still does not give the result of stopping cutting down the rainforest which Greenpeace and all of us want. The rainforest is such a complicated environment which only nature could make links between many species and plants and once it is destroyed it can never be established again. It will affect not only Orang Utans, tigers, sun bears and many other smaller species and many plants and birds which are all relying on each other.  Once the chain is broken it would result into                                                                                                  extinction of many.

                               WHICH PICTURE IS BETTER !!!!!! 
  IT HAS TO STOP NOW NOT WAITING FOR THIS REPORT AND THAT REPORT.  ALL A NAME OF THE GAME AND  IN THE MEANTIME THE DESTRUCTION GOES ON.  THAT IS THEIR AIM.                                                     

KPMG assessed APRIL last year.  A leaked report
says that not one of APRIL’S suppliers has met its policy and that includes Santander.

APRIL gave another promise to rectify it but APRIL is known to make and break promises and al the time another piece of rainforest has gone and that is their real policy.

Now we come to the final point; unless the backers all pull out immediately and it has to be immediately APRIL will not stop to destroy Indonesia’s rainforest and drive Orang Utans, tigers, sun bears, rare pygmy elephant and many other species driven to extinctions.

Indonesia's rainforests are home to untold number of plants and animals. Over the years, scientists uncover more rare species that can not be found anywhere else. Yet, the forests are disappearing fast, as greedy companies chop down the trees to make paper and packaging.

SIR DAVID ATTENBOROUGH'S WONDERFUL LIFE

Sir David Attenborough had an incredible career of 60 years ground breaking Television. David Attenborough started his career when he joined BBC in 1952. In 1954 a new series began with Zoo Quest.

His phenomenal and ground breaking series Life on Earth was watched in 1979 by 500 million people world wide. This series made Sir David Attenborough an iconic figure of wildlife documentary filming.

Ben Fogle who is himself an explorer and presenter interviewed Sir David for a TV documentary. Ben stated that he was daunted to interview such a great man but afterwards he said: "He makes you feel very relaxed. He's as you see him on TV - so warm and enthusiastic and has such a powerful way with words. You're in awe of how much he knows about our world."

In 1961 Sir David Attenborough travelled to Madagascar for his fifth Zoo Quest in the series. When he was there he found a giant egg which is almost a foot-long. It is an egg of the now extinct elephant bird. The largest bird that had ever lived. He regards it as his most treasured possession. He returned to the Island Madagascar last year. 50 years after he made the documentary "Attenborough And The Giant Egg". This time he tried to find out more about the egg and to film the series Madagascar.

In 1979 Sir David Attenborough started a series called "Life On Earth" and he calls it his greatest achievement. It was estimated that the series was watched by 500 million people worldwide. David recalls the most memorable moment when he found a group of mountain gorillas in Dian Fossey's sanctuary in Rwanda. Later on when David wrote his memoirs, he mentions the event as "one of the most exciting encounters of my life."

In 1984 a new series began called "The Living Planet". This series was filmed in the most inhospitable and difficult to reach locations in the world. One was to show the eruption of volcanoes or the other in the world’s deepest valley. Sir David Attenborough acknowledged the hardship his film crew endured. He said: "The difficulties are not actually experienced by me. The difficulties are those that are encountered by the cameramen, directors and recordists, who actually have to get an animal doing something which perhaps nobody's ever even seen before." This statement also shows the kind of gentleman he is.

In 1990 a new series "The Trials Of Life" is a study in animal behaviour. Sir David Attenborough travelled almost a quarter of a million miles to film. It was a lengthy documentary and took altogether three and a half years. One of the most dramatic scenes was filming killer whales stalking seals on the beach. It was so real and closed up because the cameramen were only meters away from the attacking whales. David stated afterwards that it was lunacy to go into the water and more lunacy to lay on the beach to the get the best shots.

In 1993 Sir David Attenborough created a series "Life In The Freezer". David and the film crews of 20 went to the Antarctica to film. This series took them three years. The danger here was monolithic glaciers and blizzards with 160kph. They went into territories which were previously labelled as inaccessible. After 17 years, David went back to the South Pole to film "Frozen Planet". It will be shown on BBC this autumn.

In 2001 they filmed "The Blue Planet". This series brought amazing photographs which were never seen before. It unravelled some of he biggest mysteries of the ocean. They discovered the migration routes of the world's largest animal, the blue whale. They were successful in filming deep-sea creatures. Unusual squids and jellies were never filmed before. In the UK alone 12 million people were watching the series.

In 2002 they decided to film "The Life Of Mammals". Sir David Attenborough decided to join the film crew since the Series "The Life Of Birds" in 1998 was also a great success.

Sadly his wife Jane died in 1997. They married in the 1950s and had a son and a daughter.

David reminiscent: "The Life Of Birds was sufficiently well received for the BBC to ask me if I would like to tackle another similar series about another group of animals. How about mammals? I was in my mid-seventies but I decided I would rather do that than sit at home by myself".

Sir David Attenborough can look back on a wonderful life. He gave a complete new understanding about the world we live in. These pioneering nature series which were made under great stress and endurance gave us, no doubt, an inside of nature, animals and the ocean which would have never been known.

Sir David Attenborough celebrated his 85th birthday last month.