Day 158 - 19 Jul 95 - Page 30


     
     1        rain forest", it says:
     2
     3        "Around the Equator there is lush green belt of incredibly
     4        beautiful tropical forest untouched by human development
     5        for 100 million years, supporting about half of all the
     6        Earth's life forms, including some 30,000 plant species,
     7        and producing a major part of the planet's crucial supply
     8        of oxygen."
     9
    10        The "tropical forest" reference there seems to be the same
    11        tropical forest which is referred to in the Hoofprints on
    12        the Forest book.  I will come to that in a minute.  I think
    13        that the words can be interchangeable; and, in any event,
    14        the tropical forest is identified as the area in question
    15        in the London Greenpeace factsheet.
    16
    17        Now, these 30,000 plant species, if we go to page 4 of
    18        Hoofprints on the Forest, at the bottom of page 4
    19        Hoofprints on the Forest, we find at the bottom of
    20        page 4 ----
    21
    22   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  The main text?
    23
    24   MR. MORRIS:  In the main text, opposite a map there.  If we look
    25        at the main text at the bottom of page 4, the second to
    26        last line includes the 30,000 species of plants, vascular
    27        (whatever that means) plants; and this book, Hoofprints on
    28        the Forest, has been stamped "Property of London
    29        Greenpeace", and it is my belief that it could have been
    30        used in the production of the London Greenpeace factsheets
    31        although, as I was not involved with that, I do not know.
    32
    33        The tropical forest in the factsheet is clearly the same
    34        tropical forest, which is the area identified as the area
    35        of concern, is the same as the area which Mr. Shane deals
    36        with in his book.  I have looked through his book, from
    37        what I could see in the lunchtime.  For example, if we look
    38        on page 3 of his book -- well, sorry, if we look on
    39        page XIII in the preface, going right to the front -- have
    40        you got XIII in the preface?
    41
    42   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes.
    43
    44   MR. MORRIS:  The first paragraph in the middle of that
    45        paragraph, he talks about "leading to the destruction of
    46        Latin America's tropical forests".  He continues using the
    47        words "tropical forest" throughout the preface and the
    48        introduction exclusively.  He does not -- he basically
    49        talks about that is the area of concern.  For example, the
    50        next paragraph, third line: " The purpose of this study is 
    51        to examine the known causes and consequences of cattle 
    52        ranching on the tropical forest biomes of Latin America." 
    53
    54        Then if we go on to page 3, the bottom of page 3, the
    55        paragraph: "It is known that the tropical forest which
    56        encircles the Earth near the Equator are regions of global
    57        importance because of the vital natural resources which
    58        they contain."
    59
    60        It goes on about those natural resources.  Then the first

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