Rainforest of French Guyana

Please! Please! Please! You would do me the greatest favor by at least just reading this. If you don’t have the time to read anything, then at least read the last clause, please. Thank you!
I know the following doesn’t even affect this country. However I want as many people as possible to be informed about this subject and after all the fact that in some countries – like this one for example – homosexuals even get life imprisonment may have influenced the following: In 2011 there was a discussion in Uganda about whether or not death penalty shall get reintrodiced and if people also should be sentenced to death for being gay. International protests ( also and especially from Obama, the president of the USA ) made them abandon this discussion for the moment. However now they decided to recontinue and if we don’t intervene they are going to kill people simply for behaving according to their nature. Yes, for natural behaviour, because homosexuality can be found everywhere! There are reports and footage proving that homosexuality can be found in the animal kingdom, too. They even filmed intelligent animals, like whales, dolphins or primates which showed homosexual behavior. So you can’t say that this is condemnable, because of being against nature. They say that this is condemnable, because the Old Testament condemns it. When an US-American Christian theologian held a speech about why homosexualty was condemnable according to the OT she received a letter saying something like “What do you think. How much money should I ask for when I sell my daughter into slavery? Because that’s exactly what one sentence written in the Old Testament allows me to do. How should I kill my uncle for growing two things in one and the same field?” You can’t just fix a whole theological theory on one single quotation. 1 Thess 5,21 even says that we should firstlky test it an only keep it if it’s still good. I don’t want to go any further. If you really want to know why I – a strictly religious lady – am against discriminating homosexuals and even think that my religion tells me to do so, then you should read “http://www.englishbaby.com/findfriends/view_photo/596319?page=4”. It’s the comment of 03:13 AM Mar 08 2011.
However David Bahari, a member of Uganda’s parlament as well as of its ruling party also had a comment in favour of this upcoming law, saying that homosexualty could destroy family structures and tolerating homosexuals could have a bad influence on children. I agree on the first comment. Even most younger people still have problems trying to accept “gays” as some still circulating jokes about homosexuals prove. Also organisations like “La Refugee” that adopt adolescents who got abandoned by their parents simply for being gay prove that homosexuals have serious trouble trying to fit in even into their own family. However this could also be considered as a social problem rather than a problem caused by homosexuals. After all the history of Judaism also is full of discrimination, persecutiion and not just one genocide and today nobody would say that the Jews were to blame for what happened to them. Only real nerds would still walk around saying something stupid like “Well, if these Jews hadn’t been Jews none would have killed them. So the problem obviously was that they were Jewish!”
His second comment however sounded like – excuse the word – rubbish to me. I’m sorry, but what sort of influence does he imagine here? That a kid who gets asked why he / she is gay could defend this attitude of his / her by saying “But Peter from 9th grade is homosexual, too. So I make love to someone of my sex, because I want to be like him.”?
What about another example? Nearly all children have an idol and usually this is a movie or a pop star. Does Bahari really think that if one of these stars was gay, a child of under ten years would say “Gee! When I’m grown up, I want to be gay, too.”? I suppose – or at least I hope – not! This would be just ridiculous.
If you want to do something against this madness then please sign the following petitions or inform others about them:
“http://www.amnesty.org.au/action/action/27844/”
“https://secure.avaaz.org/en/uganda_stop_homophobia_petition/”
We beat Uganda’s anti-gay bill once! I’m sure we can beat it twice and – if necessary – three times. Thank you for your support!

According to Wikipedia “French Guiana is heavily dependent on mainland France for subsidies, trade, and goods. The main industries are fishing ( accounting for three – quarters of foreign exports ), gold mining and timber. In addition, the Guiana Space Centre at Kourou accounts for 25% of the GDP and employs about 1,700 people.
There is very little manufacturing. Agriculture is largely undeveloped and is mainly confined to the area near the coast – sugar and bananas are two of the main cash crops grown. Tourism, especially eco – tourism, is growing. Unemployment is a major problem, running at about 20% to 30%.”
That means that the rainforest may not be too endangered, because they don’t need the space for their plantations and depend on eco -tourism, but still: I think this can change within a few decades. You can’t rely on what’s today! After all the huge unemployment may cause another danger, considering that some of these men could try to gain at least a little money by illegal traffic with products taken from the forest.
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First comment reuploaded: ““http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/campaigns/forests/amazon/amazon-flora-and-fauna/” and “http://wwf.panda.org/what_we_do/where_we_work/amazon/”. I know there’s nothing special about mentioning the homepages of these two organisations, since everyone already knows them, but this time they are all I found.”

...However specimens from all rainforests are in danger, because they are so exotic. Just recently for example they arrested a man for trying to smuggle two leopards, one bear and an ape that – as far as I’m informed – all got caught in the area of the Thai rainforest.
>Now at the beginning of the 21st century the following situation may seem to be unthinkable for some of you. After all tolerance and respect for different cultures aren’t such a big deal anymore, but I just heard about a documentation containing interviews, photos and evidence other than that which proves that native tribes ( not only from rainforests ) still get displaced by concerns that need more and more space for their multiple plantations. As I said before I thought that something like this had been an issue some centuries ago, – when the first European settlers defended their new home against the natives – but now it looks like I was wrong.

The rainforests of French Guyana are still largely unexploited and sparsely populated.

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