Environmentalists Step Up Action
5/30/97
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Subject: Environmentalists step up action
Date: Fri, 30 May
Organization: Copyright 1997 by United Press International
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, May 30 (UPI) -- Members of the
Greenpeace environmentalist group in British Columbia, who for the past 10
days have been protesting against a logging firm's destruction of a local
forest, have moved their demonstration to the company's boardroom.
The activists had chained themselves to the equipment of Western
Forest Products, physically keeping them from clearcutting the Great
Bear Rainforest along the midwestern coast of the province, but have now
chosen to set up camp inside one of its offices.
Karen Mahon, a spokeswoman for Greenpeace, says her group has
records proving Western Forest has gone against the Forest Practices Code
on 96 occasions.
She says, ``Our fight is not with the workers, and not with the
courts. We have moved our fight to the belly of the beast -- the company
hell bent on destroying one of the world's last great rainforests for
its own benefit.''
Tzeporah Berman, another Greenpeace spokesperson, says the protest
has saved an estimated 10,000 trees.