Based in Oklahoma, Atlantic-Meeco is the world’s largest builder of marinas.

In 1998, Rainforest Relief engaged this multinational company in San Diego, during a campaign to end that city’s proposed use of rainforest wood for a large marina on city land. We found that the company building the marina was Atlantic-Meeco, the world’s largest marina builder.

We also found that Atlantic-Meeco was buying from Timber Holdings, Ltd., the largest importer of ipê decking in the U.S. In fact, we learned that Atlantic-Meeco had been the company to suggest to Timber Holdings that they heavily invest in tropical wood decking imports and that Atlantic-Meeco would be a sure buyer. This was a key company to convert.

After a month of engaging the San Diego City Council and the design committee, Rainforest Relief, Action Resource Center and San Diego Sierra Club reached an agreement with the City and Atlantic-Meeco. Activists agreed to allow the current project to go forward with the wood that had already been bought and Atlantic-Meeco agreed to end their use of uncertified rainforest woods for all future projects.

However, after the person who had entered the agreement, the founder and then-president of the company, left, we learned that Atlantic-Meeco resumed their use of tropical hardwoods and other rainforest woods in marinas. The company used rainforest woods for at least two recent projects, one in Japan and another in Brunei.

Send a message to Atlantic-Meeco and demand that they live up to their agreement and end their use of wood from endangered forests.