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Oct 14th
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ATTENTION! 
Oct 14th
Action


Write Home Depot and ask them
to stop selling old growth lumber.

Home Depot is still sourcing and selling old growth Redwood and other old growth trees. Ask Home Depot to send you a letter stating that they will stop using old growth lumber period.

The Home Depot
2455 Paces Ferry Road
Atlanta, GA 30339
(770) 433-8211

Home Depot headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia sources and sells old growth trees such as redwoods, mahagony, Douglas Fir, Ramin, Cedar, Lauan, luan, meranti, Philippine Mahogany for lumber. Our rainforest is being clearcut, our old growth and indigenous people in tropical and temperate rainforests are being driven into extinction along with endangered species. In the Pacific Northwest, Maxxam and Pacific Lumber are destroying old growth forests - these are not renewable resources.

Rainforest Relief, Action Resource Center, Rainforest Action Network (RAN) and others protest with direct non-violent action to save our tropical rainforest and old-growth forests and endangered species. We must prevent our old growth forests from becoming lumber yards.


 The State of the World's 
Old Growth Forests

  • The United States has already lost 96% of its old growth forests
  • Only 22% of the world's old growth forests are still intact
  • 76 countries have already lost all of their old growth forests. Eleven more countries are on the verge of losing their old growth forests.
  • 70% of the world's remaining old growth forests are in Brazil, Russia, and Canada.
  • Outside of the world's cold boreal regions, 75% of the world's old growth forest is threatened.
  • Global wood consumption has increased 2.5 times since 1950.
  • Wood consumption in the United States and Canada is three times the level in underdeveloped countries and double that of other industrialized nations.
  • North American wood consumption is expected to increase 46% by the year 2040.
  • We already have the technology to reduce our wood consumption by 75-90%.


Source: Rainforest Action Network


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