Unsustinable clearfelling exploting 'sustainable' logging certifications

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Rainforest Action Network

 

Will PEFC support real sustainable forest practices?

 

Join us in fighting for sustainable forest certification practices that

aren't controlled by the logging industry!

 

The Pan European Forestry Council has recently bowed to pressure from the

Australian government and accepted the Australian Forestry Standard (AFS) as

a legitimate certification for sustainable forestry. Unfortunately, this

certification standard was designed to provide Gunns with a legal loophole

that allows the company to continue clear-cutting Tasmania's 200-year-old

trees, napalming the land, and killing its native wildlife – while selling

itself as a leader in environmental and sustainable forest practices.

 

Ironically, just days after the PEFC adopted Gunns' AFS standard, an

Australian federal court found that Gunns' logging practices were illegal

and driving several species to extinction.

 

Accepting this standard destroys the credibility of the PEFC and provides

cover for Gunns' horrific logging!

 

Please tell PEFC Chairman Michael Clark that accepting the Gunns AFS

standard is unacceptable!

 

Send a message to PEFC Chairman Michael Clark that he must renounce the AFS

policy and stand up for real sustainable certification policies, not those

engineered by the logging industry to greenwash their destructive practices.

 

http://ga3.org/campaign/taz_pefc/iie3s352pbnxjet?

 

With your help, we are letting the world know about Gunns' horrific

activities in Tasmania, and we will finally win protection for the island's

incredible old growth forests.