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- From: tip@lead.aichem.arizona.edu (Tom Perigrin)
- Newsgroups: rec.woodworking,alt.save.the.earth,talk.environment
- Subject: Re: "Rainforest Destruction Has Many Victims"
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.061805.11486@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 06:18:05 GMT
- References: <ACTIV-L.19Dec1992.1347@naughty-peahen>
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- Organization: University of Arizona UNIX Users Group
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- In article <ACTIV-L.19Dec1992.1347@naughty-peahen> jym@mica.berkeley.edu (ACTIV-L via Jym Dyer) writes:
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- >friends of the earth (foe), world wide fund for nature uk and
- >survival international are lobbying the british government to
- >adopt an integrated policy on forests, including an immediate halt
- >to imports of illegally produced timber and completely phasing out
- >timber imports from unsustainable sources by the end of 1995.
- >
- >the environmental groups are also targeting the diy firms, the
- >main tropical timber purchaser in britain. so far, three of
- >britain's six big diy chains have agreed to phase out tropical
- >wood from unsustainable sources by 1995.
- >
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- Thanks for the warning. I hadn't realized that this was happening so
- quickly. That gives us DIY woodworkers less than two years to stockpile
- large quantities of Iroko, Ebony, and other woods. I really glad you
- warned us before we couldn't buy these woods anymore.
-