- Major UK company cancels rainforest contract in response to Greenpeace action
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26/03/1998
While Greenpeace activists continue to occupy a shipment of ancient Canadian rainforest timber and pulp in Greenock harbour, near Glasgow, as part of an international campaign to save the world's ancient forests, a major UK company has cancelled a rainforest contract. Magnet stores, in a statement issued announced that it is joining an increasing list of international companies which are no longer willing to purchase products from companies intent on logging in Canada's Great Bear Rainforest.