China Timber Demand Threatens World's Forests - WWF
http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/29862/story.htm

http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,12370289%5E663,00.html


Informant: Andy Robinson

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Seattle is now home to the Seattle Weyerhouse, a house whose participants are devoted to stopping Weyerhaeuser from logging endangered forests.

The house participants would love to hear from people who are interested in knowing more about the campaign, volunteering or living in the house for a period of time.

If you are interested in becoming part of the hub of environmental activism within Washington State, improving your activist skills and making difference then please contact the house at seattle@ran.org, 206 522 6935.

Wild Oats needs some encouragement from people like you. Wild Oats, an environmentally-minded grocery store with nearly 100 locations throughout North America, uses paper bags from Weyerhaeuser, the number one destroyer of endangered forests in North America. Wild Oats should not be affiliated with a corporation that is notorious for logging national and old growth forests, destroying the habitat of endangered species such as the northern spotted owl and woodland caribou, and converting nativeforests into tree plantations.

Go to http://action.ran.org/ctt.asp?u=2844473&l=80627 to send a message to the Wild Oats CEO Perry Odak, asking him to cancel the company's business with Weyerhaeuser. Feel free to give him a ring to voice your concerns personally at Perry Odak at 330 440 5220.

Better yet, organize a demonstration at your local Wild Oats store. Go to http://action.ran.org/ctt.asp?u=2844473&l=80647 for a list of Wild Oats stores. Make sure to speak to the manager and all of Wild Oat's customers about your concerns. If you would like to receive some campaign materials and some technical assistance in organizing a local demonstration please contact Jessica at jessica@ran.org 415 398 4404.

Ongoing investigations by Rainforest Action Network and Greenpeace confirmed that BlueLinx, America's largest building products distributor, is smuggling legally disputed, undocumented timber out of Indonesia's critically endangered rainforests and flooding the U.S. marketplace with artificially cheap lauan plywood. Bluelinx is funded by JP Morgan Chase, a US-based bank that has built its financial empire on making Investments of Mass Destruction.

An "IMD of the Month" case study published on http://www.DirtyMoney.org details the trafficking of undocumented wood by current BlueLinx suppliers throughout Indonesia.

Illegal logging throughout Indonesia continues to cause widespread devastation to the region's tropical rainforests and neighboring communities. Indonesian Ministry of Forestry reports that 43 million hectares of the country's forests have been damaged or destroyed over the last several decades due to illegal logging, with the average annual deforestation rate estimated at more than 2.8 million hectares (7 million acres) since 1998. These forests are some of the most biodiverse on Earth, and are home to a variety of threatened and endangered species, including the rare Indonesian orangutan. In addition, illegal logging has been blamed for massive flooding and landslides throughout Indonesia.

The ongoing devastation has been well-documented by the Indonesian Ministry of Forests, Yale School of forestry, Environmental investigation Agency, and Business Week Magazine.

RAN is calling on JP Morgan Chase and BlueLinx to immediately comply with a voluntary corporate embargo of Indonesian forest products already in place by Centex Corporation, International Paper and Lanoga Corporation.

Go to http://action.ran.org/ctt.asp?u=2844473&l=80626 to visit our online action center and send an email to JP Morgan Chase CEO William Harrison and Bluelinx CEO Charles McElrea telling them to stop fueling illegal logging in Indonesia

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Informant: Deane T. Rimerman