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Save the Forests

To: Rachelle Levingston <>
Subject: Save the Forests
From: Teet Sirotkin <>
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 10:35:20 +0200
Hi everybody,

Before flooding the worlds e-mail servers, you might want to know
that this appears to be

1) an out-of-date cry for help (see below) or

2) a chain letter designed in a similar manner to the "Win A Holiday"
e-mail.

A friend of mine forwarded me this reply to another newsgroup.

>  > Old news: in fact the project was already defeated in parliament. In
>  > fact the facts weren't quite right either: the project did not
>  > propose
>  > to reduce the forest to 50% it only allowed someone which has a
>  > property in the amazonic area to cut half of it for land use, whilst
>  > keeping the rest untouched. The current legislation obliges people
>  > to keep 80% as forest. Anyway there's a big difference between a
>  > legislation saying how much of your property has to be kept as a
>  > reserve on one side compared to a project of proposed
>  > 'deforestation' by the govenment at the other.

-- 
Regards /Teet
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Teet Sirotkin
Basesoft Open Systems
Box 34 140, 100 26 Stockholm
Tel 08-13 17 20, Fax 08-13 17 25
N59°19'41,3" E18°01'04,7"

Rachelle Levingston wrote:
> 
> Please don't just delete this, read it and then if you don't feel it's
> important, don't sign it. You may not want to sign it but others you know
> might so send it anyway. Oh, and get your families names on it too.
> Thanks, Naomi. P.S delete this bit!
> 
> This is important for all of us!!!
> Brazilian congress is now voting on a project that will reduce the amazon
> forest to 50% of its size. The area to be deforested is 4 times the size of
> Portugal and would be mainly used for agriculture and pastures for
> livestock...
> All the wood is to be sold to international markets in the form of wood
> chips, by multinational companies... The truth is that the soil in the
> amazon forest is useless without the forest itself.  Its quality is very
> acidic and the region is prone to constant floods.  At this time more than
> 160.000 square kilometers deforested with the same purpose, are abandoned
> and in the process of becoming deserts.
> We cannot let this happen. Copy the text into a new email,
> put your complete name in the list below, and send to everyone you
> know. (Don't just forward it cos then it will end up with rows of
> >>>'s
> If you are the 100th person to sign please send a copy to
>  <>
> Thank you.
> 01-Fernanda de Souza Saviolo - Rio de Janeiro - RJ -
> 18/06/83
> 02-Nara Maria de Souza - Rio de Janeiro - RJ - 11/08/50
> 03-Julio Cesar Fraga Viana - Rio de Janeiro - RJ - 01/01/54
> 04-Monica Grotkowsky Brotto -Sao Paulo - SP - 23/08/77
> 05-Mauricio Grotkowsky Brotto - S*o Paulo -SP 29/09/78
> 06-Ricardo A. Corrallo - SP 16/08/75
> 07-Sunny Jonathan - SP 18/10/1970
> 08-Leonardo Larsen Rocha - SC 23/01/1972
> 09-Evandro Sestrem - SC 26/06/1979
> 10-Marco Aurlio Wehrmeister - Blumenau - SC 18/06/1979
> 11-Angela Maria Gonalves - Blumenau -SC 25/07/1959
> 12-Alessandra Bernardino - Blumenau - SC - 25/12/1980
> 13-Pedro Carstens Penfold - Rio de Janeiro - RJ - 12/09/82
> 14-Annelena Porto Delgado - S*o Paulo - SP - 27/07/77
> 15-Erica Couto -S*o Paulo -SP 29/09/78
> 16-Elaine Couto- S*o Paulo - SP
> 17-Tatiana de Almeida Voivodic - S*o Paulo-SP
> 18-Solange B Furlanetto - S*o Paulo / SP
> 19-Marcos de Souza Mello - S*o Paulo / SP
> 20-Eliane Santiago - S*o Paulo / SP
> 21-Francisca J. Bezerra Alves Ara*jo - S*o Paulo / SP
> 22-Carlos Alberto Dantas Junior - Rio de Janeiro / RJ
> 23-Daniel Rodrigues da Cruz - Rio de Janeiro / RJ
> 24-Gabriella
> Gaida - Rio de Janeiro - RJ - 04/05/72
> 25-Ceclia Silva Teixeira Pinto - RJ - 03/06/75
> 26-Tania Santos Miguel
> 27-Celso Henrique Diniz Valente de Figueiredo - RJ -
> 10/08/49
> 28-Marcelo Lopes Rheingantz - Rio de Janeiro - RJ -
> 20/12/80
> 29-Rodrigo Tassinari de Oliveira - Rio de Janeiro - RJ -
> 19/04/83
> 30-Andr Lobato Pinheiro - Rio de Janeiro - RJ - 07/07/81
> 31-Ismael dos Santos Silva - RJ - 28/08/79
> 32-Gustavo Alexandre Caetano Correa - RJ - 08/09/80
> 33-Juana Varella Barca de Amorim - Rio de Janeiro, 14/03/83
> 34-Nara Faria Silva -RJ- Rio de Janeiro , 15/12/82
> 35-Isabella Jaggi - SP - S*o Paulo, 03/12/82
> 36-Diana de Andrade Freitas - Rio de Janeiro - RJ -
> 21/06/83
> 37-Karina Dourado - S*o Paulo - 18/01/80
> 38-Pablo Genuncio Garcia - Rio de Janeiro - 27-06-81
> 39-Fabola Morais de Lucca - S*o Paulo - 03/02-78
> 
> 40-Alexei Morais de Lucca - S*o Paulo - SP - 12/08/75
> 41-Renata
> Regina
> Roxo - S*o Paulo - SP - 03/11/74
> 42-Fernanda Teixeira - S*o Paulo - SP - 17/09/76
> 43-Patricia Freitas - S*o Paulo - SP
> 44-Cintia Regina K*rner - Alemanha - DE -
> 45-Wolfgang K*rner - Alemanha - DE
> 46-Roseani Vieira Rocha - San Francisco - CA
> 47-Angela Ichimura - S*o Paulo - SP
> 48-Assunta Viola - Sao Paulo - SP
> 50-Marina Amaral - Alemanha - DE
> 51-Fabian Rodrigues Caetano - Sao Paulo - SP - 15/01/1971
> 52-Luciana Cabrera- Santa Barbara- Ca
> 53- Andrea Torres- Lahaina, Hawaii
> 54- Carla Duarte- New York, NY
> 55- Sergio Goes- New York, NY
> 56- Itaal Shur - New York, NY
> 57- Hiroyoku Sanada-New York,NY
> 58- Marianne Ebert-new york,NY 59- Gloriana M. Calhoun -
> New
> York, NY
> 60- Roger Jazilek - New York, NY
> 61- Cheryl To - New York, NY
> 62- Judy Mercer - Paris, France
> 63- Evelyne Pouget- Woodstock, NY
> 64- Hera-Woodstock, NY
> 65- Nicos Peonides - Cyprus - New York NY
> 66 - Fiona Cousins - new York, NY
> 67 - Alistair Millington - London, UK
> 68 - Edgar Craggs - Bristol, UK
> 69 - Chris Hastie - Nottingham, UK
> 70 - Adam Barley - Bristol, UK
> 71 - Dawn Morgan - Bristol, UK
> 72 - Lottie Berthoud - Bristol, UK
> 73 - Julia Simnett - Bristol, UK
> 74 - Lindsey Colbourne - Bath, UK
> 75 - Wendy Lawton - Bath, UK 76 - James Friel - Birmingham,
> UK
> 77- Sylvia Magyar - Budapest, Hungary
> 78 - Danco Uzunov - Budapest Hungary
> 79 - Vladimir Jurukovski - New York, USA
> 80 - Laste Stojanovski - Auckland, New Zealand
> 81 - Mirjana Ocokoljic - Belgrade, Yugoslavia
> 82 - Aron Haulik - Sopron, Hungary
> 83 - Ana Zeljezic - Zagreb, croatia
> 84 - Laura Jiménez- San José-Costa Rica
> 85 - Eliane Jiménez- San José, Costa Rica
> 86- Juan Reverter Murillo- San José, Costa Rica
> 87- Vanessa Alvarado Barrientos - San José, Costa Rica
> 88- Jorge Mario Alpízar Quirós - - San José, Costa Rica.
> 89- Peter Pruett
> 90- Kent Epperson - Denver, CO
> 91- Gay Page - Denver, CO
> 92 - Andy Clarke, Washington DC
> 93 - Ernie & Dora Clarke, Dursley, UK.
> 94 - Jack Brooke, Slimbridge, UK
> 95 - Derek Brooke, Wollongong, Australia
> 96 - Chris Hanson, Wollongong, Australia
> 97 - Luke Duncan, Sydney, Australia
> 98 - Aafke Sloot, Wollongong, Australia
> 99 - John H. Neal, Tamworth, Australia
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