“All whaling vessels please proceed to waters of East Timor”: the biggest concentration ever reported of whales and dolphins, among other cetaceans, was found 50 km (30 miles) off the coast of East Timor.
Carta aberta a Ramos-Horta: This current Government has, under your watchful eyes, signed a dubious MoU presenting the government’s intention in granting 6/10 of Timor-Leste’s total arable land and nearly 90% of Timor-Leste’s arable flatlands and plains to plant sugarcane.
It is commonsense that this project poses significant threats to our food and water security and, presents itself as a threat to the sustainability of Timor-Leste as a sovereign nation and yet you have not come forward and spoken up.
The product of this sugarcane plantation is meant to produce bioethanol that is meant to power cars at the other end of the world, this project will simply nourish egos of several hundred “eco gluttons” while Timorese starve by the thousands because their land was taken away from them, and their economic freedom. The unwary Maubere and Buibere are at the dawn of eminent starvation. Those that say they are eco-friendly, actually have ecological footprints that would make big foot look like an infant.
