EU using illegal timber – Greenpeace

Timber sourced from endangered Indonesian rainforests is being used in European Union buildings in Brussels, according to environmental activists Greenpeace. Wood used in the main Berlaymont and Economic and Social Committee buildings has allegedly been supplied by Korindo and AFR, two companies known to deal in illegal timber from the Tanjung Puting National Park.

Fifty campaigners from the group descended on the ESC building this week, halting construction and blockading the entrance with FSC-certified timber.

Campaigner Andy Tait commented on greenpeace.org.uk; "The EU is responsible for trashing the last rainforests of Indonesia. These rainforests should be home to orang-utans and tigers, not Brussels bureaucrats in plush offices. If these forests and the endangered species they support are to have any kind of future, the EU must act to stop the trade in illegal timber and clean up its timber buying."