Deforestation – a good news story?

Well after listening to somebody on Radio 1 a couple of weeks ago from the FSC (Forestry Stewardship Council) talking about Ireland’s disproportionately huge appetite for tropical hardwood trees I was getting extremely depressed hearing statistics such as the 50 hectares of Amazonian rainforest being felled daily when our Tiger was prowling the Irish countryside solely to feed Irish needs. Â And when that was put with the (admittedly ballpark) statistic of 70 percent of hardwood being sold here coming from illegal logging industry, I went searching for some ray of hope amidst the dark and dreary aspect of our disappearing woodlands…and found this! Â Please let it be true, pleeeeease!! Â Thanks to Treehugger.com for this.