Action Alert: Ken to Barbie Doll and Greenpeace USA: Not Coming Back Just Because You Say Your Wood Is FSC Certified
source: http://www.rainforestportal.org/shared/alerts/sendsm.aspx?id=gp_fsc
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Greenpeace USA has launched a quirky campaign that may well be successful in getting toy-maker Mattel to stop using some rainforest fibers in their packaging - including for Barbie and Ken dolls - that come from Indonesian tropical deforestation and threaten tiger habitat. Yet problematically their latest rainforest market campaign - similar to Rainforest Action Network's Girl Scout and Disney campaigns - mistakenly suggest that Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certification of primary rainforest logging is an acceptable alternative source for rainforest timber and fiber for throw-away consumption.
Greenpeace is a founding member of FSC (and chairman of the board for 6 years) which two studies have shown destroy from 120-130,000,000 hectares (~320,000,000 acres) of primary rainforest and other old forests by certifying their first time industrial logging as being "sustainable" and "well-managed" - when by definition FSC greenwashes primary rainforest destruction. An estimated 60-70% of FSC certified products come from primary and old growth logging - two times the area of Texas - including vast stretches of Canada's ancient boreal forests being clearcut with Greenpeace's vocal support for toilet paper.
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Greenpeace is a founding member of FSC (and chairman of the board for 6 years) which two studies have shown destroy from 120-130,000,000 hectares (~320,000,000 acres) of primary rainforest and other old forests by certifying their first time industrial logging as being "sustainable" and "well-managed" - when by definition FSC greenwashes primary rainforest destruction. An estimated 60-70% of FSC certified products come from primary and old growth logging - two times the area of Texas - including vast stretches of Canada's ancient boreal forests being clearcut with Greenpeace's vocal support for toilet paper.
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