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| SEPTEMBER
22, 1998 12:59 PM FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Greenpeace Racine Tucker-Hamilton, Media Officer (on site)--cell phone - 202-256-4041 Scott Paul, Forest Issues Specialist (on site)--cell phone- 202-213-3014 In Washington, D.C.-Dwight Mims, Media Officer-- 202-319-2436 |
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| Greenpeace Unfurls Giant Banner Over Niagra Falls To Save Ancient Forests | ||||
| U.S.-CANADIAN
BORDER/NIAGRA FALLS - September 22 - A Greenpeace team of international climbers,
representing Canada, the United States, Germany and Australia this morning hung a banner
over Niagara Falls protesting the destruction of ancient forests in North America. The
banner, measuring sixty feet high by thirty feet wide reads "Save Ancient
Forests," and displays the Canadian and U.S. flags. "More than 80 percent of the earth's ancient forests have been destroyed," said Scott Paul, Greenpeace forest issues specialist. "We're here at Niagara Falls, on the border of the U.S. and Canada, because both countries are contributing to the destruction of thousand year old trees." The U.S. is one of the largest consumers of wood products from Canada's Great Bear Rainforest in British Columbia, purchasing nearly two-thirds of the wood. Greenpeace is calling on the U.S. and Canada to save the remaining ancient forests in North America. Canada's Great Bear Rainforest, in coastal British Columbia is North America's largest remaining unprotected Rainforest. Greenpeace is calling for:
"When people purchase wood products they should demand
to know if it came from an ancient forest, and if it did, refuse to buy it," said
Paul. ### |
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