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'Dondun', home of the Blemyahs' is
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The 20th century saw a massive destruction of plant and animal species by
humans. Between 50% and 70% of Indonesia's rain forests have already been
destroyed. Friends of the Earth have just produced a report on a company
called APRIL which operates the largest wood-pulp mill in the world. APRIL
is accused of running out of plantation timber and ransacking the remnants
of natural forest. This kind of behaviour is driven by our own insatiable
desires here in Europe. Western banks financed the company and a British
company built the pulp mill. The paper it produces is sold here, via eight
British merchants.
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