Timber campaign protest - Green Party NZ

Deforestation is, or should be, one of the world's biggest concerns, and is thought to contribute about 20 percent of human-made carbon emissions world-wide.

The loss of tropical forests is even more tragic as they are believed to contain more than half the earth's plant and animal species.

New Zealanders aware of how New Zealand and Australia help cause unsustainable and illegal logging of ancient forests in the Pacific and Asia; the dire long-term implications this has on climate change, and the immediate deaths and displacement of wildlife that occur due to our importation of tropical kwila furniture, which we believe comes mostly from Papua New Guinea and West Papua.

The main "players" in SE Asian and Melanesian forest and wildlife destruction are a few huge corporates who, according to Greenpeace, hide their involvement through subsidiaries, partnerships and the "laundering " of timber products to China (where they are on-sold to Western countries such as Australia and NZ).

Last year the Australian Conservation Foundation tried unsuccessfully to stop ANZ financially supporting one of the largest of these corporates, Rimbunan Hijau, (RH) in Papua New Guinea where Rimbunan Hijau is the main logger of virgin rainforests.

The Green Party of Aotearoa NZ believes that ANZ should cut all links with Rimbunan Hijau because of RH's appalling logging and human rights practices in South East Asia and Melanesia.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• logging
• timber
• Green
• ANZ
• Rimbunan
• Hijau

[jurrassicsparks]

why dont the Greens protest to Chile with regards to the volcano.Im sure the greens could suggest it be capped.Surely all the pollution will be upsetting the Greens?Lets also ban sea plankton as they are the main contribution to global climate change along with volcanic activity.The Greens seem to pick on the western alliance and the democratic governments.I never hear Russell Norman screaming to the Chinese to halt pollution or protest at Pakistan or North Korea for having nuclear arms.

[mickwalker82]

Are you all serious? If the Greens alowed the forests in Aus and NZ to be managed properly as working forests to supply some of these needs our timber industry's could fill some of these unsustainable gaps in third world countrys rather than attack a bank for supporting such a company wouldnt we be better to fill the gap with sustainable timber, then you all could go and find somthing better to do with your time, like prehaps a job? that would mean i could stop paying as much in tax to feed you

[norcallogger]

what a bunch of tards

[ToyotaTrucksR4Girls]

This is your brain on.....Drugs.LOL

[Krisando]

973345 = Gay

[mikeleeross]

that was cool.

[ycats1000]

haha you mutants

thats funny as

[HaloSvevo]

that's a good and important cause you work for.

[skalusanini]

good street theatre!!