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WORLDWIDE
FOREST/BIODIVERSITY CAMPAIGN NEWS
New
York Times Stops Buying Pulp from Canadian Clearcut
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Forest
Networking a Project of Ecological Enterprises
November
18, 1995
OVERVIEW
& SOURCE
Chalk
one up in the victory column as the New York Times
discontinues
purchases of pulp from Macmillan Bloedel, the company
clearcutting
the temperate rainforest wilderness found in
Clayoquot
Sound, Canada. This comes from
Greenpeace's gp.press
conference
in econet.
g.b.
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NEW YORK TIMES ENDS NEWSPRINT CONTRACT WITH MACMILLAN BLOEDEL
Environmentalists
congratulate newspaper publisher
for
model decision
VANCOUVER,
Canada, 10 November, 1995 (GP) The New York Times, a
long-standing
customer of MacMillan Bloedel, has dropped its
contract
with the logging company, following two years of
pressure
from American and Canadian environmental groups.
A
letter from NYT Vice-President Stephen Golden confirms that the
contract
will be dropped at the end of this year and "will not be
renewed".
The letter came just two days after environmentalists
criticised
MacMillan Bloedel and International Forest Products,
the two
companies logging in Clayoquot Sound, for failing to
adequately
implement the recommendations of the Scientific Panel.
The
groups called for a moratorium on logging in Clayoquot.
"We
congratulate the New York Times for doing the right thing -
for not
buying into the destruction of Canada's rainforest. This
is the
first major development in the rising tide of U.S. public
concern
over Canada's forests," said Karen Mahon, Greenpeace
Forests
Campaigner. "International concern over the fate of the
temperate
rainforest continues to grow and it's clear that MacBlo
will
have to clean up its act if they want to hold onto their
customers."
In
recent weeks there has been an intensification by the U.S.-
based
Clayoquot Rainforest Coalition to highlight ongoing threats
to the
biodiversity of Clayoquot Sound. Last week activists
protested
at a meeting of the Yellow Pages Publishers'
Association,
some of whose members purchase directory paper from
MacBlo
for phone books. This week's release of the first
environmental
report, on "new" logging practices being applied in
Clayoquot
Sound revealed that clearcutting is continuing and that
violations
of the Forest Practices Code may still be occurring.
InterFor's
first post-Science Panel logging has been referred to
the
Attorney-General's office for possible prosecution.
The New
York Times' decision is in keeping with their stated
environmental
policy which reads in part: "suppliers must not be
unethical
or destructive to the environment. We will examine
their
practice and we will not purchase their goods if we
determine
that they are not in conformity with our standards."
FOR
MORE INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT:
Karen
Mahon or Tamara Stark, Greenpeace (604) 253-7701
Christopher
Hatch, Friends of Clayoquot Sound at 604-253-7701
Lisa
Beaudoin, New York Coalition for Forests 212-924-7929
Liz
Barratt-Brown, Natural Resources Defense Council 202-783-7800
Atossa
Soltani, Rainforest Action Network 415-398-4404
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