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After Greenpeace complaint, UK timber giant removes controversial Amazon wood from shelves

2014-06-16 19:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Mongabay: After being implicated in a Greenpeace report on illegal logging in the Amazon rainforest, UK building supplier Jewson has pulled controversial wood from its shelves until it can conduct a full investigation on the timber's origin. Greenpeace said Jewson will await the results of the audit before deciding whether to begin selling products made out of Ip, a timber that the environmental group is widely laundered in the Brazilian Amazon. Greenpeace has found that some Ip producers and traders...

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