Timber protest at port


The protest took place at the Essex port
Greenpeace volunteers have infiltrated a port to protest against imports of rainforest timber logged for use in the building trade.
About 60 volunteers got inside warehouses at Tilbury Docks in Essex and began branding pallets of Indonesian rainforest plywood with the message "Stop Illegal Timber".

The vast majority of timber from Indonesia has been logged illegally, says a recent Greenpeace report.

But the UK and the EU have no laws in place to ban the import of such timber.




Greenpeace wants new laws to be brought in so the building trade use only legally logged timber.

If illegal logging continues it will lead to an environmental disaster, according to experts.

The Port of London Authority Constabulary confirmed that there had been a peaceful protest at the docks this morning but the demonstration was now over.

No arrests were made.




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