The Government goes to the High Court at 10.30am tomorrow, Thursday 30th May to defend itself against a legal challenge by Greenpeace over its failure to prevent illegal mahogany from the Brazilian Amazon rainforest being imported into the UK (1).
The court case is the latest development in Greenpeace's campaign to end imports of illegally and destructively logged timber into the UK from the world's last remaining ancient forests. Currently around 60% of Britain's imports of tropical rainforest wood come from illegal sources.
