Toronto-- Don't reach for a Kleenex next time you feel a sneeze coming on or try to stifle your sniffles with a Kleenex tissue, because you're helping to kill off an ancient forest. That's the latest Greenpeace message for tissue-dependent consumers.
Your runny nose could also be doing in the caribou, an endangered species.
accusing Kleenex manufacturer Kimberly-Clark of clearcutting ancient forests, including Canada's Boreal forest, Greenpeace activists turned up in full regalia at the company's Canadian headquarters in Mississauga on Tuesday.
Playing the role of police at a crime scene, Greenpeace's "Forest Crimes Unit" cordoned off areas of company headquarters with yellow crime scene tape and drew chalk outlines of "victims" in the manner homicide police use at the scene of a real crime.
Without courtesy of judge or jury, Greenpeace finds Kimberly-Clark "guilty of crimes against ancient forests, for making disposable products out of clearcut ancient forests, including Canada's Boreal forest.
amid screaming sirens and flashing lights, Greenpeace activists played cops and robbers to drive their anti-Kleenex message home.
"It is an environmental crime that Kimberly-Clark is clearcutting 10,000-year-old forests to make products that are used once and then thrown away or flushed down the toilet, despite the fact that alternatives exist," said Christy Ferguson, Greenpeace Forests Campaigner.
alternatives for Kleenex, Greenpeace style, include recycled products from other unnamed tissue product manufacturers.
Greenpeace claims that currently less than 19 percent of the pulp Kimberly-Clark uses for tissue products is from recycled sources, and none is used for Kleenex products sold in grocery stores in Canada.
a species at risk, woodland caribou are endangered because of the Kleenex manufacturer.
"Consumers can do their part to stop this forest criminal by not buying Kleenex brand tissue products," said Ferguson.
Playing an important role in fighting climate change, the Boreal forest is a "carbon storehouse" as far as the environmental giant is concerned.
Stretching from Newfoundland to the Yukon, the Boreal forest is home to hundreds of wide-ranging wildlife species, including moose, caribou, lynx, bear and wolves. Thirty percent of North america's songbirds and 40 percent of its waterfowl nest in the forests and wetlands of the Boreal.
Greenpeace has been fighting the world's largest manufacturer of tissue products since November 2004.
activists have stepped up their campaign against Kimberly-Clark because the company has not responded to meetings and letters.
Greenpeace's Forest Crimes Unit should consider training its attention on Greenpeace headquarters.
Part of the "Save the Rainforest" campaigns, Greenpeace is one of the environmental organizations collecting millions of dollars from the public at large for the popular cause.
But man in the know, Vincent Nogueira, state secretary for the environment in the amazon, says "not one single red cent has ever made it (to amazonia) from these sources. What they do with whatever they collect, I don't know." (Marc Morano, WorldNetDaily, June 27, 2000).
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