HOBOKEN, NJ — Yesterday, the City Council of Hoboke passed unanimously an ordinance to end the city's purchases of tropical and temperate rainforest woods.

Hoboken, a mile-square city located on the New Jersey waterfront of New York Harbor, has in the past installed scores of benches made with slats of ipê, a tropical wood logged from the Brazilian Amazon.

Following the passage in June of an identical ordinance in Jersey City, just south of Hoboken, Councilman Peter Cammarano was encouraged to introduce tonight's ordinance by Rainforest Relief and Jersey City Councilman Steven Fulop, who was the sponsor of the Jersey City ordinance.

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