3rd December 2012

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Clear-Cutting Sumatra: Rainforest Pulp Used in German Children’s Books - SPIEGEL ONLINE

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Children’s books are the second largest segment in Germany’s billion-euro book industry. But publishers’ profits are coming at the expense of rainforests in Asia, according to a new report from the WWF. Nearly 30 percent of German children’s books use pulp from rainforest wood harvested in Sumatra and elsewhere in the region.
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