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Biosphere Reserves, Endangered Species, Habitat Conservation,
Invasive Species, Wildlands, more wilderness, more protection,
threatened, endangered, .... and the list goes on.
What do these words really mean to you as a recreationist? or a
property owner??
Coming to a national forest near you.......
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=32748
U.N. influence in Alabama
Posted: May 24, 2003
1:00 a.m. Eastern
© 2003 WorldNetDaily.com
Only a handful of the people who gathered at the Birmingham Hilton on
April 8, 2003, knew that the objective of the meeting was to
implement U.N. policy in Alabama. Most people in attendance thought
the meeting was to solicit comments about a "forest management plan"
being developed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The comment
period is open until July, at which time the plan will go into effect
to standardize "ecosystem management" in all national forests in
Alabama.
"Yes," answered Rick Morgan, spokesman for the government, when asked
if the plan provided for core wilderness areas, surrounded by buffer
zones. The plan fulfills the criteria of Article 4 of UNESCO's
"Statutory Framework for U.N. Biosphere Reserves." Most of Alabama
has already been gobbled up by the Southern Appalachian Biosphere
Reserve, one of 47 U.N. Biosphere Reserves designated in the U.S.,
with no debate, discussion or vote by any state legislature or the
U.S. Congress.
A major function of all U.N. Biosphere Reserves is to continually
expand the core wilderness areas and connecting corridors of
wilderness, pushing ever-outward the buffer zones, and surrounding
the entire area with an ever-expanding "zone of cooperation." The
Southern Appalachian Reserve began with the designation of the
517,000-acre Great Smoky Mountains National Park as a U.N. Biosphere
Reserve. State Department maps now show the reserve to include an
area that stretches from Birmingham to Roanoke, and from Nashville to
Asheville.
Who wants all this land managed according to policies decided by
UNESCO? Morgan was asked: If all the comments received from the
people were negative, opposing the management plan, would the plan be
abandoned? His answer: "No, the comments will be taken and duly
noted." This management plan is required by the U.N. Convention on
Biological Diversity. Why is this plan being implemented in Alabama,
and throughout the United States, when the U.S. Senate did not ratify
the U.N. Convention on Biological Diversity?
The Clinton-Gore administration expected the treaty to be ratified,
with little or no opposition. They were shocked when it failed, and
decided to implement its provisions anyway, through its
administrative policy of "Ecosystem Management." The people who
insist the U.N. has no control over our land-use policies, including
those in Congress, either don't know - or don't want others to know -
how the system works.
The Convention on Biological Diversity was first proposed in 1981 by
the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. The IUCN is
an NGO (non-government organization) in Switzerland whose membership
includes more than 60 major U.S. environmental organizations, and
seven departments of the federal government.
The bureaucrats from these seven federal agencies, and the leaders of
the environmental organizations, worked together through the IUCN to
develop the draft treaty, which was then presented to the U.N.
Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro, where it
was adopted in 1992. Once adopted by the U.N., these same
environmental organizations and federal agencies lobby for
ratification. The federal agencies then implement the treaties which
they helped draft. And, these same agencies award federal grants to
the NGOs to help implement the treaties. Almost all U.S.
environmental policy since the early 1970s has followed this same
route. The Nature Conservancy has been an initiator of at least the
last four U.N. Biosphere Reserves nominated in the U.S., and a
primary promoter of Biosphere expansion everywhere. At the Birmingham
meeting, Rick Morgan was asked if his agency was in partnership with
the Nature Conservancy. His reply: "We are mutually supportive, we
attend their meetings and they attend ours."
The Nature Conservancy and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service are
members of the IUCN. Both organizations worked on the development of
the Convention on Biological Diversity, and both organizations are
working together to implement the management provisions required by
the treaty, even though the treaty was not ratified.
The long-term aim of the Convention on Biological Diversity is to
convert at least half of the land area to "core wilderness" areas,
connected by corridors of wilderness, all of which is off limits to
human activity. Wilderness areas are to be surrounded by buffer
zones, in which human activity is strictly limited by government, and
managed for "conservation objectives." People are gradually being
moved into "sustainable communities," which are designed to achieve
economic and environmental equity.
The meeting in Birmingham was to satisfy the requirement to provide
for public input to a plan, the outcome of which was decided years
ago. The people were told that the plan affected only the National
Forests in Alabama. Truth is, that the plan affects all land in and
near the National Forests. The federal government uses the Endangered
Species Act, the Invasive Species Initiative, wetland policies,
viewsheds, smart growth and a host of other policies, to restrict
land use on private property to the point that the land will
ultimately fall into the hands of the government, or an environmental
organization such as the Nature Conservancy.
Alabama is not alone. Virtually every state and every community has
been targeted to undergo a similar transformation into what Science
magazine described in 1993 as "the transformation of America to an
archipelago of human-inhabited islands surrounded by natural areas
(p.1868)."
The transformation of America was designed by the IUCN in
Switzerland, adopted by the United Nations, and is being
systematically implemented in Alabama, and in every state, by
bureaucrats and environmentalists who have no accountability at the
ballot box. Elected officials, who are accountable at the ballot box,
are allowing the transformation to go forward. They should be held
accountable.
Editor's note: The May edition of WND's acclaimed monthly
Whistleblower magazine is devoted entirely to the United Nations and
globalism, and includes an in-depth, groundbreaking report by Henry
Lamb. The issue focuses on the critical decisions America faces in
the near future, which will determine whether it stays a free and
sovereign nation or submits to global governance under the authority
of the U.N. Readers may subscribe to Whistleblower at WND's online
store.
Henry Lamb is the executive vice president of the Environmental
Conservation - ' .Organization and chairman of Sovereignty
International.
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Invasive Species, Wildlands, more wilderness, more protection,
threatened, endangered, .... and the list goes on.
What do these words really mean to you as a recreationist? or a
property owner??
Coming to a national forest near you.......
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=32748
U.N. influence in Alabama
Posted: May 24, 2003
1:00 a.m. Eastern
© 2003 WorldNetDaily.com
Only a handful of the people who gathered at the Birmingham Hilton on
April 8, 2003, knew that the objective of the meeting was to
implement U.N. policy in Alabama. Most people in attendance thought
the meeting was to solicit comments about a "forest management plan"
being developed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The comment
period is open until July, at which time the plan will go into effect
to standardize "ecosystem management" in all national forests in
Alabama.
"Yes," answered Rick Morgan, spokesman for the government, when asked
if the plan provided for core wilderness areas, surrounded by buffer
zones. The plan fulfills the criteria of Article 4 of UNESCO's
"Statutory Framework for U.N. Biosphere Reserves." Most of Alabama
has already been gobbled up by the Southern Appalachian Biosphere
Reserve, one of 47 U.N. Biosphere Reserves designated in the U.S.,
with no debate, discussion or vote by any state legislature or the
U.S. Congress.
A major function of all U.N. Biosphere Reserves is to continually
expand the core wilderness areas and connecting corridors of
wilderness, pushing ever-outward the buffer zones, and surrounding
the entire area with an ever-expanding "zone of cooperation." The
Southern Appalachian Reserve began with the designation of the
517,000-acre Great Smoky Mountains National Park as a U.N. Biosphere
Reserve. State Department maps now show the reserve to include an
area that stretches from Birmingham to Roanoke, and from Nashville to
Asheville.
Who wants all this land managed according to policies decided by
UNESCO? Morgan was asked: If all the comments received from the
people were negative, opposing the management plan, would the plan be
abandoned? His answer: "No, the comments will be taken and duly
noted." This management plan is required by the U.N. Convention on
Biological Diversity. Why is this plan being implemented in Alabama,
and throughout the United States, when the U.S. Senate did not ratify
the U.N. Convention on Biological Diversity?
The Clinton-Gore administration expected the treaty to be ratified,
with little or no opposition. They were shocked when it failed, and
decided to implement its provisions anyway, through its
administrative policy of "Ecosystem Management." The people who
insist the U.N. has no control over our land-use policies, including
those in Congress, either don't know - or don't want others to know -
how the system works.
The Convention on Biological Diversity was first proposed in 1981 by
the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. The IUCN is
an NGO (non-government organization) in Switzerland whose membership
includes more than 60 major U.S. environmental organizations, and
seven departments of the federal government.
The bureaucrats from these seven federal agencies, and the leaders of
the environmental organizations, worked together through the IUCN to
develop the draft treaty, which was then presented to the U.N.
Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro, where it
was adopted in 1992. Once adopted by the U.N., these same
environmental organizations and federal agencies lobby for
ratification. The federal agencies then implement the treaties which
they helped draft. And, these same agencies award federal grants to
the NGOs to help implement the treaties. Almost all U.S.
environmental policy since the early 1970s has followed this same
route. The Nature Conservancy has been an initiator of at least the
last four U.N. Biosphere Reserves nominated in the U.S., and a
primary promoter of Biosphere expansion everywhere. At the Birmingham
meeting, Rick Morgan was asked if his agency was in partnership with
the Nature Conservancy. His reply: "We are mutually supportive, we
attend their meetings and they attend ours."
The Nature Conservancy and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service are
members of the IUCN. Both organizations worked on the development of
the Convention on Biological Diversity, and both organizations are
working together to implement the management provisions required by
the treaty, even though the treaty was not ratified.
The long-term aim of the Convention on Biological Diversity is to
convert at least half of the land area to "core wilderness" areas,
connected by corridors of wilderness, all of which is off limits to
human activity. Wilderness areas are to be surrounded by buffer
zones, in which human activity is strictly limited by government, and
managed for "conservation objectives." People are gradually being
moved into "sustainable communities," which are designed to achieve
economic and environmental equity.
The meeting in Birmingham was to satisfy the requirement to provide
for public input to a plan, the outcome of which was decided years
ago. The people were told that the plan affected only the National
Forests in Alabama. Truth is, that the plan affects all land in and
near the National Forests. The federal government uses the Endangered
Species Act, the Invasive Species Initiative, wetland policies,
viewsheds, smart growth and a host of other policies, to restrict
land use on private property to the point that the land will
ultimately fall into the hands of the government, or an environmental
organization such as the Nature Conservancy.
Alabama is not alone. Virtually every state and every community has
been targeted to undergo a similar transformation into what Science
magazine described in 1993 as "the transformation of America to an
archipelago of human-inhabited islands surrounded by natural areas
(p.1868)."
The transformation of America was designed by the IUCN in
Switzerland, adopted by the United Nations, and is being
systematically implemented in Alabama, and in every state, by
bureaucrats and environmentalists who have no accountability at the
ballot box. Elected officials, who are accountable at the ballot box,
are allowing the transformation to go forward. They should be held
accountable.
Editor's note: The May edition of WND's acclaimed monthly
Whistleblower magazine is devoted entirely to the United Nations and
globalism, and includes an in-depth, groundbreaking report by Henry
Lamb. The issue focuses on the critical decisions America faces in
the near future, which will determine whether it stays a free and
sovereign nation or submits to global governance under the authority
of the U.N. Readers may subscribe to Whistleblower at WND's online
store.
Henry Lamb is the executive vice president of the Environmental
Conservation - ' .Organization and chairman of Sovereignty
International.
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