UK's leading garden centre exposed in rainforest scandal
Summary
Our new research shows that Wyvale Garden Centres are among the worst offenders when it comes to using trashed rainforest timber in their garden products.
In June 2004, Greenpeace published an initial report outlining how the Swiss-based Danzer Group had been knowingly financing illegal logging in Africa. Now we've obtained additional evidence of further unscrupulous behaviour - including suspected forgery and carrying out business dealings with an arms trafficker who is blacklisted by the UN Security Council.
Summary Illegal logging continues to play a huge part in the destruction of the world's ancient forests. Its impacts are devastating: contributing to loss of biodiversity; linked to human rights abuses and organised crime; impacting on the sustainable development of forest producing countries; and undermining the trade in timber from legal and sustainable sources. The World Bank estimates that some US $10-15 billion per annum is lost to Governments each year because of the illegal trade in timber.
All three international companies targeted by Greenpeace's Amazon campaign in Brazil - Malaysian based WTK/Amaplac, Eidai from Japan and French based Lapeyre - have shifted ground as a result of campaign work carried out over the last six months.
The Amazon rainforest is one of the biologically richest areas in the world containing more than one-third of the world's remaining ancient forests and supporting up to 50% of the planet's land-based animal and plant species. The Amazon contains more than 2.5 million species of insects, more than 300 species of mammals, 2000 species of fish and more than 60,000 species of plants.
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