Sunday, March 25, 2012

Sumatran habitats destroyed

The habitat of the endangered Sumatran tiger is being obliterated to make tissues and paper packaging for consumer products in the west, new research from Greenpeace shows. A year-long search by Greenpeace shows clear evidence, it appears that ramin trees from the Indonesian rainforest have been cut down and shipped to factories to be pulped, smashed and turned into paper. The name ramin refers to a bunch of different endangered trees growing in peat swamps in Indonesia where the small number of remaining Sumatran tigers hunt.

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