Greenpeace launches new Lapeyre catalogue of ancient forest destruction

Greenpeace today intensified its campaign to put an end to Lapeyre's role in ancient forest destruction. The executive director of Greenpeace France, Bruno Rebelle, attended the annual shareholders meeting of the French home improvement company and questioned Lapeyre's board members about the company's part in destroying the Amazon forest as well as its overall timber purchasing policies from destructive logging operations in ancient forest regions. Concurrently, outside the meeting venue, Greenpeace activists were distributing a new version of the Lapeyre Catalogue showing shareholders which products are destroying the ancient forests. Greenpeace has also set up a parallel website for Lapeyre: www.lapeyre.org/destruction.