illegal timber

Greenpeace investigation reveals trail of illegal destruction from the Amazon Indian lands to Harrods

Greenpeace today called on the UK Government to seize imports of Brazilian mahogany coming into UK ports and for retailers, including Harrods and the John Lewis Partnership, to immediately remove mahogany products from their stores.

Four Greenpeace volunteers today ended their vigil occupying the MV Enif at London's Tilbury docks in the face of a legal injunction from the owners of the ship. The volunteers were immediately arrested by police after climbing down from the top of a crane. The 75 hour vigil was the longest in the history of Greenpeace in the UK and was partt of a global campaign to stop the traffic in criminal timber from the Amazon rainforest. The volunteers are demanding that the ship's cargo of criminal rainforest plywood is returned to the Amazon.