ALERT! Protest French Company Shipping Madagascar’s Illegally Logged Rosewood Timbers to China
Mongabay reports that Delmas shipping company is planning to take as many as 200 containers (worth $40M) of illegally logged rosewood rainforest timbers out of Vohemar port in Madagascar on the 21st or 22nd of December [1]. They reported four shipping companies have transported rosewood from Madagascar this year. Three of these have agreed to stop shipping rosewood following criticisms from international conservation groups, but the fourth, Delmas (a subsidiary of French shipping giant CMA-CGM) continues to ship illegally logged precious woods in large quantities.
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Seems like the focus should be stopping the cutting and the shipping would be secondary. If there is no way to stop the logging why worry about it.
Posted by: Dave Moore | December 20, 2009 3:20 PM
For the Madagascar Alert is is possible to add recipients in China?
And include concerned citizen groups, receivers of the wood and the Chinese government?
Posted by: John Bogen | December 20, 2009 11:54 PM
Whilst people generally 'switch off'in relation to envtl matters prior to christmas, and swing their mind/s into some sort of çollective-historical'mode',
these bloody loggers seem to be getting away with everything except/including murder?!?! They are opportunits of the 1st order, that will eventually have to be brought to the Intl Cours/s of Justice. What ho?('Ho' in mandarin is çamphor laurel; most toxic tree in Australian history, killing our wildlife, directly and indeirectly; readers please go to:www.camphorlaurel.com
Posted by: joe a friend | December 21, 2009 3:39 AM