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1 species.
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3 3.4. All our campaign literature, and the publications of
4 other organisations like our own who subsequently became
5 involved in this campaign after 1985, made clear our
6 concern for all tropical forest types under threat. These
7 publications included 'rainforest: Protecting the Planet's
8 Richest Resource', (Charles Secrett, Friends of the Earth
9 1985), the overview document used to launch our campaign,
10 'timber: An Investigation of the UK Tropical Timber
11 Industry' (Francois Nectoux, Friends of the Earth 1985),
12 and our wildly distributed and extensively published
13 campaign information leaflets"?
14 A. Your Honour, I wonder if I could add something to those
15 paragraphs?
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17 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes?
18 A. I just want to emphasise the point made here about the
19 many and varied uses of the words or the term "rainforest".
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21 MR. RAMPTON: Excuse me a moment. He is examining himself so
22 I had to interrupt him. I do not believe that this is
23 admissible evidence. What the witness is tying to do -- it
24 is no fault of his, he is not a lawyer, which is what
25 Mr. Monbiot tried to do yesterday until your Lordship
26 stopped him or stopped Mr. Morris -- is to tell your
27 Lordship what the natural and ordinary meaning of
28 "rainforest" is and that is not admissible.
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30 MR. MORRIS: Perhaps you could tell us what you mean by the
31 meaning of the word "rainforest"?
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33 MS. STEEL: As a person who started the campaign.
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35 MR. MORRIS: Or led the campaign.
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37 MR. JUSTICE BELL: What is the relevance? If Mr. Secrett is
38 going to tell me what he means by "rainforest" in his
39 statement then I am happy with that because that is just
40 defining terms.
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42 MR. MORRIS: When you were meeting with McDonald's ----
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44 MR. JUSTICE BELL: But, in fact -- well, I will leave it there
45 for the moment.
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47 MR. MORRIS: When you were meeting with McDonald's, did you
48 express concern over damage to rainforests?
49 A. The point I was trying to make was that we used the
50 term "rainforest" to cover a number of distinguishable
51 tropical forest types, including "dry", "moist" or "humid",
52 and "rainforest types".
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54 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Why not use "tropical forest" then?
55 A. Sometimes we did.
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57 Q. Yes, but why have, "Save the Rainforest" if it was "Save
58 the Tropical Forest" including "rainforest, tropical moist
59 and tropical dry"?
60 A. I think, your Honour, because of what you yourself have
