Greenpeace stages UK protest over Indonesian wood
Date: 06-Jun-03
Country: UK
The British government should halt all plywood imports from Indonesia, one of the world's largest timber producers, since it is virtually impossible to certify that wood from the country has not been logged illegally, Greenpeace said.
"Until we can guarantee that there is legal and sustainable timber coming out of Indonesia, we should not buy it," Greenpeace's UK campaign director John Sauven told Reuters. The Home Office says it takes seriously procurement guidelines which ban the use of illegally logged timber.
Asked in parliament this week about the protest, Prime Minister Tony Blair said: "It may be an issue to be brought up with the contractors rather than the government."
