iduals who have helped in the fight against the destruction of the rainforest. However, there have also been individuals and business that have not helped the problem but contributed to it. One example of this is the Canadian company known as BC lumber that destroys the Canadian rainforest every year for product supplies.BC lumber does business with companies all over the world. These companies include Xerox, Kinkos, 3M, Cristol-Myers_Squibb, B&Q, Do-It-All, Magnet Stores, BBC magazines, Schwank (Germany) and Sainsburys/Homebase (UK). However, many of these companies have decided to move away from BC lumber “due to environmental concerns.” They have also issued statements in their intent not to purchase from them as well. Notable companies that have refused to act on these concerns are Home Depot and two subsidiaries of chemical giant Hoechst AG-Celanese (US) and Clariant (Switzerland).There is an old saying “if your not apart of the solution your apart of the problem,” well Bob Hasan fits that statement quite well. Mohammad “Bob” Hasan did more damage to Indonesia’s rainforests that any other single individual. His actions in the past have included “ignoring environmental and conservation laws that limited and mananaged to clear cutting of the tropical rainforests.” Hasan believes that he is the “king of the jungle,” and his economic standing continues to grow so Hasan’s views and actions may never change.The sad reality is that destruction of the rainforests continues at an alarming rate. Throughout the tropics, forests are logged for precious hardwoods. Others are burned to make way for large-scale farming or cattle raising operations. Topical rainforests once covered more than fourteen percent of the Earth’s land area. They now amount to less than six percent. At the current rates of destruction only a few tattered forests will remain in t...
