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The Forest Ethics conservation group will give a multimedia presentation about how the global timber industry, and the market for wood and paper products, is destroying endangered forests across Canada noon today in the Oechsle Hall auditorium (room 224).
Sponsored by Lafayette Environmental Awareness and Protection Organization, the event will include free lunch.
The presentation will highlight Canada’s biologically rich endangered forests, from British Columbia’s coastal Great Bear Rainforest to the Boreal. “We’ll give you the word on both the forests and the companies that are destroying them,” states LEAP.
ForestEthics has helped pioneer a new approach to environmental activism by focusing its efforts on the marketplace.
“For every tree cut in an endangered forest there is a purchaser somewhere that funds this activity – often unwittingly,” according to the group. “ForestEthics works to educate individual consumers, large corporate purchasers, and distributors so they are aware of the environmental impacts and ethical dimensions of their purchasing decisions. Our goal is to harness this market power to stop destructive activities of certain logging companies while encouraging a shift toward environmentally preferable products.”