There is currently a new resolution at vote in the Unitd Nations: 'Environment Protection Act'. The attached poll will be open until Tuesday December 19^th when I will cast my vote based on the result of this poll. Please remember that you can only vote once no matter how many offsite accounts or nations in Canada you may have.

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A resolution to increase the quality of the world's environment, at the expense of industry.

Category: Environmental
Industry Affected: Woodchipping
Proposed by: Homophobic Warriors

Description: BELIEVING that protecting our environment is very important and that wanton deforesting of any trees has to be controlled;

CONCERNED that the forests and the animals living in forests are being harmed by logging companies

CONSIDERING that trees and plants are needed to provide oxygen for humans

WORRIED that nations are destroying their beautiful countryside and wildlife

The United Nations,

DEFINES for the purposes of this resolution, a forest as a group of 20 trees or more

MANDATES that every nation has to define 10% of the total area of forest in their nation as protected by the government;

FURTHERMORE NOTES that this area of forest must not be cut down by any individual member, company, organisation or group within the nation or a combination of any of these

MANDATES that any area of forest where citizens live in or a high amount of birds or mammals live must not be cut down. This adds on to the 10% of protected forest;

MANDATES that if a nation cuts down 25% of their total forest area, all logging must be stopped until this 25% has been replanted;

THEREFORE URGES nations to use sustainable logging where almost every tree cut down is replanted. This would ensure that the nation never gets to the situation of the above clause;

CREATES the United Nations Environment Protection Foundation (UNEPF), which has the following tasks:

1. To use UNCoESB's (resolution 119) ruling on whether or not an animal or a plant is endangered
2. To protect animals and plants which are deemed to be endangered (recalling resolution 119 UNCoESB) by preventing any individual person, company, organisation, group or any combination of the former from destroying their natural habitat
3. Keep a record of the area of forest in each nation in square kilometres, to ensure that they can carry out the above clauses

MANDATES that anyone who breaks the laws set out in this resolution must be punished

URGES nations to punish anyone who breaks the laws set out in this resolution, in a serious way

NOTING that the same rules apply to any foreign company who has leased any area of land in any UN member nation

CONCLUDING that this proposal protects endangered species and plants, as well as natives and the environment in general

The current vote stands at 2,509 for to 2,964 against.

vwote no! (this is mav's input, obviously)

Doesn't indicate the size of land for a 20 tree forest. 20 trees in...a KM square? twenty-mile square? larger? or in 'my' back yard (my uncle had a 2 acre lot, with lots of trees)? Obviously, if i divided my land into areas of smaller than 20 trees, I can drive a truck through this glaring loophole.

Also, why 20 trees?

to me, this section is poorly written. We have to replant the trees......that we just cut down???

It also doesn't include an exemption to remove bug-infested trees (think of the pine beetle epidemic in BC, now spreading into alberta. The first major infection was in a provincial park, and the removal of those trees was blocked by the government <this is according to my boss, who worked in forestry in Prince George>, with the now resulting loss of an industry in BC). In addition, what about when trees need to be removed for fire breaks, to protect homes from being burned down in forest fires?

if you roleplay your nation is a water-based nation, or in antartica, or in outerspace, you won't be having any trees. Why 10%? it's an abritary number. I would believe that this number is much higher, percentage wise in our RPed countries.

define high amount please. Also, citizens live in trees now?

what about us poor nations? Again, why 10%?

The resolution "Environment Protection Act" was defeated 7,236 votes to 5,252.

I cast my vote AGAINST this resolution based on the result of this poll.

Thank you to everyone who voted.