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Burmese teak found on sale at Chelsea Flower Show

Posted by admin — 30 May 2006 at 8:00am - Comments

Burmese timber, which has been found in the form of garden furniture at the Chelsea Flower Show

Article tagged as: burma, chelsea flower show, FSC, garden furniture, illegal timber, royal horticultural society

Wyevale agree to stop using timber from trashed rainforests

Posted by admin — 28 April 2005 at 8:00am - Comments

Orang-utans at the Wyevale garden furniture centre

Article tagged as: burma, forests, FSC, garden furniture, illegal timber, wyevale

UK's leading garden centre exposed in rainforest scandal

Last edited 24 March 2005 at 9:00am

24 March, 2005

WYEVALE GARDEN CENTRES are responsible for trashing endangered rainforests and helping to fund one of the most brutal military dictatorships in the world, Greenpeace has revealed today.

The timber for Wyevale's 2005 garden furniture range has come from the last rainforests of south-east Asia. The disgraced garden centre chain is also purchasing timber from Burma, providing a key source of revenue to the country's military dictatorship.

Article tagged as: burma, forests, garden furniture, press releases, south east asia, wyevale

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