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Friends of The High Line — Enemies of the Rainforest
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 | High-profile high crimes — the High Line's chaise lounges — made of ipê logged from primary Amazon rainforests |  |
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Friends of the Highline is destroying hundreds of acres of rainforest by using ipê, logged from the Amazon, for bleacher seating, decking, chaise lounges and hundreds of benches in New York City's newest high-profile park.
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 The Nation's only non-profit, independent, consumer publication on the environment, E Magazine is a clearinghouse of information, news & commentary on today's environmental issues.
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Friends of The High Line Claim Their Ipê is "Certified"
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 | The Friends of The High Line specified a large amount of wood logged from Amazon rainforests for decking, bleachers, chaise lounges and benches |  |
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In an article on their website, Friends of the High Line has claimed that the ipê used for the new park is from certified logging. Even so, rainforests are still being destroyed.
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NYC DOT Out to Bid for Massive Amount of Rainforest Wood for Ferry Terminals
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 | Just one fender of the St. George's Ferry Terminal is comprised of over 1000 pilings — all greenheart ripped from the rainforests of Guyana |  |
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The New York City Department of Transportation is set to destroy thousands of acres of the pristine rainforests of Guyana for new pilings and fendering at the Staten Island Ferry Terminals.
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Sanitation's North Shore Marine Transfer Station Bid Addendum Specifies Illegal Wood
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 | The North Shore Marine Transfer Station bid calls for a large amount of greenheart, logged from the primary rainforests of Guyana, for pilings and fendering |  |
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The bid for the New York City Department of Sanitation's North Shore Marine Transfer Station includes a large amount of greenheart that will be ripped from the primary rainforests of Guyana, but also apitong, the use of which is illegal for New York City and State agencies.
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Walmart Ends Sales of Nyatoh Outdoor Furniture!
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 | Walmart has switched all wooden outdoor furniture on Walmart.com to FSC-certified plantation eucalyptus |  |
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Walmart.com has ended the sales of outdoor furniture made of nyatoh and switched to certified plantation eucalyptus.
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Flooding and Fish Kill in Sarawak Caused by Logging
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 | The recent massive fish-kill in Sarawak was caused by excessive logging of rainforests. Photo courtesy Bruno Manser Fonds |  |
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The Environment Minister of Malaysia has attributed the massive fish die-off in Sarawak to over-logging, blaming large companies for skirting environmental regulations.
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Conventional Banana Article
Johann Hari, columnist for the London Independent, has posted an article, Why Bananas Are a Parable For Our Times, on HuffingtonPost.com.
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NYC Parks Department Ends the Use of Tropical Hardwoods for Benches
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 | Parks began using some recycled plastic lumber in 1998, after Rainforest Relief met with Parks Commissioner Henry Stern but has continued to use mostly tropical hardwoods until December of 2007 |  |
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Years of campaign work by Rainforest Relief and more recently New York Climate Action Group have resulted in a major victory in New York City.
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Ocean City Update 3
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Ocean City Council votes to use ipê for boardwalk renovations, then reverses itself — but the ipê is on the way.
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Brazilian Police Dismantle Gang that Smuggled Rosewood to U.S.
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 | Brazilian rosewood is used often by luthiers fashioning guitars. Some consider it the "holy grail" of guitar woods. |  |
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Brazilia police, along with the US Fish and Wildlife Service, uncovered a group of smugglers shipping illegally logged Brazilian rosewood to the US.
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Pottery Barn Seeking Nyatoh Alternative
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 | Orangutans and their families are dying and being driven from their forests homes by loggers who are in part feeding the demand for nyatoh outdoor furniture created by Pottery Barn and other companies. |  |
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Rainforest Relief cancelled scheduled demonstrations at Pottery Barn stores after representatives of Williams-Sonoma, Pottery Barn's parent company told us that they are seeking alternatives to nyatoh outdoor furniture.
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UN FAO Workshop
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A recent UN FAO workshop focused on the contribution of deforestation to global warming.
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This Old House Promotes Rainforest Destruction
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 | On Oct. 23, 2005, This Old House suggested two tropical rainforest woods and two temperate rainforest woods for siding for their current project. |  |
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This Old House is once again promoting the use of wood logged from rainforests, thus speeding the destruction of Earth's most biodiverse ecosystems.
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Logging in the Amazon May Double Estimated Damage
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 | Freshly cut logs from the Amazon rainforest in northern Brazil are seen in this August 18 photo. (Paulo Whitaker/Reuters) |  |
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A new study of satellite images from the Brazilian Amazon shows that the estimates of rainforest destruction should be doubled due to logging.
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Linens 'N' Things to End Sales of Nyatoh Furniture
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 | LNT has ceased to purchase outdoor furniture made from nyatoh, a wood logged from the old growth rainforests of Indonesia. |  |
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Linens 'N' Things, a large retailer with 500 stores across the US and Canada, has announced an end to the purchase and sales of outdoor furniture made from nyatoh, logged from the endangered rainforests of Indonesia.
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Target Makes Strides but Continues Destroying Rainforests
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 | By selling furniture made of nyatoh, logged from the dwindling rainforests of Indonesia, Target is helping destroy rainforests and the orangutans and other wildlife that live in them. |  |
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Help us stop the sale by Target of nyatoh furniture, logged from the old growth rainforests of Indonesia.
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Earth About to Catch 100,000-year "Morbid Fever"
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James Lovelock, innovator of the Gaia hypothesis, predicts that the tropics will become scrub desert and that Civilization will not survive climate change.web
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Washington Post Article on Illegal Logging and China
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The Washington Post has published an incredible article on illegal logging taking place in East Asia and around the world, to feed the insatiable demand of Chinese factories exporting wood products to the world.
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National Waterfronts Project
About.com, a subsidiary of The New York Times Company, is promoting the use of rainforest woods, many of which are illegally logged, in articles on home decking.
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US Bill Introduced to Ban Imports of Wood Logged Illegally
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 | Tim Keating of Rainforest Relief and George Marshall, formerly of Rainforest Foundation standing on mahogany logs that were illegally logged in Belize. The man sitting is from a nearby Mayan village and a former coordinator of the Toledo Maya Cultural Council. |  |
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Landmark legislation that would enable the banning of the imports of wood logged illegally into the US has been introduced into the US Congress.
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Vons
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 | At least 75% of logging in Indonesia's rainforests is done illegally and logging is driving destruction that is leading to these forests disappearing by 2010. Demand for nyatoh, manufactured into products like this bar, and other woods is driving the logging. |  |
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Vons, a food and product retailer with 325 stores in southern California, is selling furniture made of nyatoh logged from Indonesia's dwindling rainforests.
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About.com Promotes Rainforest Destruction
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 | About.com promotes the purchase of ipê, Shorea and other rainforest woods for decking |  |
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About.com, a subsidiary of The New York Times Company, is promoting the use of rainforest woods, many of which are illegally logged, in articles on home decking.
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The Rainforests of New York: A Trail of Destruction
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 | Tim Doody of Rainforest Relief (left) speaks to those attending our recent Rainforests of New York tour. Photo © by Tim Keating/Rainforest Relief. |  |
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On November 12, 2008, Rainforest Relief and New York Climate Action Group conducted a tour of the rainforest wood of lower Manhattan for City and State officials, the media and the public.
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