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Jersey Town to Use Rainforest Wood on Boardwalk

2013-02-27 21:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Associated Press: Environmental groups say they'll launch a boycott drive against a Jersey shore town that refuses to back off its plan to use tropical rainforest wood to rebuild a boardwalk destroyed by Superstorm Sandy. The groups calculate that 766 acres of old-growth tropical rainforest needed to be cut down to provide materials to rebuild just one small storm-damaged boardwalk at the Jersey shore, and they're promising a tourist season boycott if the town goes through with its plan. Activists on Monday...

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