WWF: Choose good wood and save our forests
July 27th, 2006 10:26 pm by Kelly GarbatoVia the World Wildlife Fund’s Passport Panda:
Forests are amazing storehouses of biological diversity, housing over two-thirds of all known terrestrial species.
Yet each year around 13 million hectares of natural forest are lost. That’s 25 hectares every minute, the equivalent of 36 football fields.
Once spread over half the earth, forests now cover only a quarter of the planet’s land surface.
One of the main causes of this destruction is illegal logging, which is fed by high demand for timber in Europe and in countries such as Japan, the United States and China. This wood then ends up in our shops and ultimately our homes. So your garden furniture or wooden flooring may have in fact contributed to the destruction of the world’s most valuable rainforests.
But you can help stop this – Businesses will ultimately listen to their customers.
