The chain of destruction from Canada’s ancient temperate rainforest to the Japanese market

March 1, 2004

Although a few companies in Japan are beginning to reject Interfor products, in the most part, Interfor's destructive forest products are sold without being noticed by Japanese forest consumer companies. In this report, Greenpeace exposes the close ties between the destruction of Canada's ancient forests by Interfor and the Japanese market, and asks confirmed customers to stop buying directly or indirectly from Interfor. The information was collected from Greenpeace Japan's questionnaire in 1999, by research conducted at ports, Internet search and other methods.

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