> halo from new hampshire! > > i've been reading this newsgroup for a while, but this is my first > posting...and it is a plea to those of you who are concerned about the > rainforests being depleted and eradicated for the purpose of unneccessary > products; to wit: "hand-carved mohagany" doo-dads being offered by various > catalogue sales houses. > > i've been writing and calling some of these catalogue-houses requesting they > cease and desist selling items made of rainforest woods, whereas the same > items could be made of resin or plastic and present the same look. > > if you are interested, one of the most recent catalogue-houses i've been in > contact with is: > > Home Decorators (unfortunately, they do not have a website) and their > address is: 8920 Pershall Road, Hazelwood, MO 63042-2809; phone number > (800) 245-2217. > > their response to me was less than encouraging, but they also mentioned that > if they received an on-slaught of mail/calls, they would highly consider > discontinuing those rainforest wood products. > > i urge all of you to do as i have done and indicate your interest to these > catalogue-houses to STOP killing the rainforests by selling wood products. > > thank you for your time.
Hi gypsy
..------as I have stated else where,
this is not a simple issue.
Rainforests are not killed by logging alone...
Rainforest regererate itself very fast.after logging......
Logging in the first place do not clear land, they just
cut down trees that they want and pull them out.
leaving other trees alone.
But even if they do cut down ALL trees, the area
regenerate itself within months into shrubland, and in
a few years back into a secondary forest.
(this is so at least for SE Asia )
Though admittingly due to the nature
of most of the soils, it takes a very long time
to regenerate to a primary jungle again.
(In most instances, anyway, it is the practice
now-a-days to replant the trees chopped down
with good timber trees such as teak, mohargony etc.
Are u aware of this and have u check on this
concerning any country in SE Asia)
It is the conversion of cleared land into agricultureal
land that knock off the rainforest......But even these
if abundant, soon turnthemselves back into
secondary jungle.
Would you advocate that these people do not
convert forest into agricultural land to feed their
people?
Having said this much, who are the people who
are doing the curvings, or funiture makings?
What right have we to deprived them of their lively
hoods just that we may feel that we are saving
the rainforest?...The land is theirs and they have to
make a living out of it.
Until we start to attempt to help them with an alternative
lively hood, we should not consider our previlage
to deprive them of what they are doing now.
(and then again, it is our perogative to 'help' them
to a new lively hood?)
Anyway why are we so concern with just
Tropical Rainforests?
What about temperate forests and grasslands
wetlands,and peatbogs?
What about farmlands which were once forests?
Why keep forests at all?
..----for oxygen?
---- biodiversity /genetic pool?
---- esthetics?
----tourism?
----???
This last question may seem a simple question to answer.