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Our Campaigns and Projects
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 | Rainforest Relief members hang a 125' banner from Coney Island's famous Parachute Jump protesting NYC Parks' continuing use of rainforest wood for boardwalks and benches. |  |
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From the beginning, Rainforest Relief has been an organization taking action, directly engaging those involved in the destruction of rainforests. We have done this when necessary with demonstrations but mostly with consistent and smart negotiation, use of the media and education. Over and over we’ve found that when we are determined and armed with accurate information, we can turn a situation around.
Rainforest Relief has relied on grassroots support from local individuals and groups in towns and cities around the country and side-by-side with these people, we’ve measurably slowed the growth of rainforest wood into the US. But we can’t stop now.
Greed and the desire for profit are powerful forces and the rainforests continue to fall — to loggers, drillers, miners and massive agribusiness and the importers that support them, but as well as to the unsustainable development that results from corporate-approved and industry-driven loan schemes.
The rainforests need your help right now. Take a few minutes to get up to speed and get involved in our campaigns. Together we can compel these corporations and city governments to end their participation in the destruction of Earth’s most diverse places.
And, of course, support our work with a donation. Without Rainforest Relief, the tide of rainforest wood into the US would flow unimpeded.
Rainforest Relief is currently working to end the use of products derived from the destruction of rainforests with the campaigns listed to the right.
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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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Benpa Yapi Malzemeleri Dis Tic, Ltd., Set to Use Lauan Plywood
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 | Stacks of plywood logged from the rainforests of Indonesia, where illegal logging is rampant |  |
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We need your help to stop a plywood importer/wholesaler in Turkey that's about to start importing plywood from Indonesia, thus speeding the destruction of the dwindling rainforests of Southeast Asia.
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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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