FW: RAINFOREST ALERT: Stop Ocean City, New Jersey from Using Ancient Rainforest Timbers for Boardwalk Decking

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Monday, August 13, 2007 3:59 PM

Norm Cohen

RAINFOREST ALERT: Stop Ocean City, New Jersey from Using Ancient

Rainforest Timbers for Boardwalk Decking

 

ACTION ALERT PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY!

 

Stop Ocean City, New Jersey from Using Ancient Rainforest

Timbers for Boardwalk Decking

 

By Rainforest Portal, a project of Ecological Internet, Inc.

http://www.rainforestportal.org/

August 13, 2007

 

TAKE ACTION

An important precedent must be set that industrial logging of

ancient forests, even if FSC " certified " , must end

http://www.rainforestportal.org/alerts/send.asp?id=jersey_boardwalk

 

Ocean City, New Jersey is a seaside resort that has a 2.5 mile

wooden boardwalk fronting the Atlantic Ocean... Citizens are

campaigning to stop the city from using FSC certified ipê

timbers for its current one block boardwalk re-construction

project and for any future re-decking projects... In 1996, when

Ocean City announced a plan to re-deck the entire boardwalk with

ipê, a grassroots group formed to oppose the use of rainforest

wood. After 22 months of successful campaigning the City Council

adopted a Resolution in May 1997 which stated that they " ...will

no longer purchase tropical rain forest hardwood for the

boardwalk in Ocean City " ... Fast forward ten years to January

2007 and the issue of using ipê industrially harvested from

ancient rainforests rears its ugly head again. But this time,

the city presents ipê as an environmentally responsible choice

as long as it is Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certified.

While the evidence is mounting worldwide regarding major

problems with the FSC's certification of ancient forest logging

as " responsible " while implying environmental sustainability,

the city uses the endorsement that major environmental

organizations give to FSC certified products as justification

for using ipê... Citizens have repeatedly requested a public

forum to discuss the failures of FSC certification and the

insufficiencies of the city’s materials analysis, but their

requests have been ignored... Based upon false and misleading

information from major environmental groups, the City of Ocean

City is to purchase ancient rainforest wood in the name of

environmental responsibility. In order to protect ancient

forests, the people who live there, and global climate; this

purchase must be stopped and an important precedent set that

industrial scaled ancient forest logging must end forever.

 

TAKE ACTION NOW:

http://www.rainforestportal.org/alerts/send.asp?id=jersey_boardwalk

 

DISCUSS ALERT:

http://www.rainforestportal.org/issues/2007/08/alert_stop_ocean_city_new_jer

s.asp

 

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