Please help stop the ongoing use of tropical rainforest hardwoods by the New York City Department of Transportation. DOT is using wood logged from the Amazon rainforests of Guyana and Brazil. DOT uses greenheart ripped from the rainforests of Guyana for the pedestrian boarwalk of the Brooklyn Bridge and for pilings and bumpers in and around the Staten Island Ferry terminals. Logging in these places is a nightmare of unsustainability.
Roads built by loggers provide access to pristine forests for total deforestation for agriculture.
Illegal logging is rampant. Brazil has stated that the environment agency would need a budget five times its current size to control logging. Also, in Guyana, the government is issue chainsaw to anyone that wants one. They are wreaking havoc on Guyana's forests. But the greenheart that the City is using is coming from larger concessions or exploratory leases where old growth forests are constantly invaded for one or two trees per acre.