Copy and distribute at will. NC- EarthCulture just hit the furniture industry's largest user of mahogany, and demanded Lexington Furniture Industries stop using all rainforest woods. A small team of activists entered the Lexington headquarters at 415 Salisbury St., at 3 PM on Friday, October 10, and delivered a black coffin symbolizing the many indigenous peoples killed or attacked for tropical timber. A meeting will be arranged Monday. Lexington Furniture Industries is the biggest user of mahogany, largely used in their Arnold Palmer line, and the company has refused to meet with EarthCulture, ignoring letters and phone calls.
Mahogany is perhaps the worst example of catastrophic rainforest logging.
At least 8 Brazilian tribes have had people murdered at the hands of pirate mahogany loggers in search of the rare tree. Logging operations in Guyana, Nicaragua, Belize, and throughout Latin America are threatening indigenous populations so that Americans can have luxurious mahogany furniture. EarthCulture, has been instrumental in revamping a boycott on all temperate and tropical rainforest woods unless they can be independently certified as sustainable. A lot of this rainforest wood is ending up at North Carolina furniture manufacturers, making them accomplices in these crimes. The fires currently raging in Indonesia are a tragic testament to American wood consumption.