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     1        species.
     2
     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?
    16
    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".
    20
    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.
    29
    30   MR. MORRIS:  Perhaps you could tell us what you mean by the
    31        meaning of the word "rainforest"?
    32
    33   MS. STEEL:  As a person who started the campaign.
    34
    35   MR. MORRIS:  Or led the campaign.
    36
    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.
    41
    42   MR. MORRIS:  When you were meeting with McDonald's ----
    43
    44   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  But, in fact -- well, I will leave it there
    45        for the moment.
    46
    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". 
    53
    54   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Why not use "tropical forest" then?
    55        A.  Sometimes we did.
    56
    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

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