Certification problems undermine Forest Stewardship Council’s ecofriendly wood products

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By <a class="author-link"…Jan 14, 2016, 2:00 pm112 ptsTrending
[dropcap]I[/dropcap]n September 2015, a Peruvian cargo ship dropped off 71 shipping containers of rainforest wood on the docks of Houston, Texas. At 3.8 million pounds, the shipment was an ample demonstration of the continued flow of lumber from tropical countries into the Northern Hemisphere; laid out end to…

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