There are many organizations involved and working very hard to protect these forests. A majority of these groups are working at the local, regional and national level to change legislative and administrative policies that affect these Endangered Forests.

A set of organizations including ForestEthics has been focused on getting companies to make commitments to stop buying and selling Endangered Forests. This has been very successful over the last five years. Companies such as Staples, Home Depot, Kinko’s, Ryland homes, and many others have agreed to stop the destruction of Endangered Forests.

We have been able to leverage these commitments to help save Endangered Forests. In a number of cases these companies have used their influence with the logging companies and governments to work towards stopping the destruction of Endangered Forests in British Columbia, Chile, and the US.

We need your help to continue to show companies that there is broad support for the protection of Endangered Forests and that organizations are paying attention to corporate actions on Endangered Forests. The statement of support for the protection of Endangered Forests will help them see that many organizations think that it is important for companies to make a commitment to protect Endangered Forests.

I hope that you will sign on your organization on to the statement of support for the protection Endangered Forests.

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Statement of Support for the Protection of Endangered Forests

We, the undersigned organizations, representing people of conscience globally, are deeply concerned about the destruction of Endangered Forests around the globe.

Endangered Forests are the most valuable forests remaining on the Earth today. They are humanity's last chance to protect large original and old growth forests, ecologically outstanding forests, and the planet's rapidly disappearing biodiversity.

Endangered Forests include:

• intact forest landscapes,
  
  
• restoration and remnant forest types,
  
  
• areas with exceptional biodiversity values (e.g., rare forest types, forests exhibiting high endemism or species richness), and
  
  
• core habitat of focal conservation species.

Endangered Forests in need of protection are found around the world. They include the Endangered Forests of US public lands, the Southern US Cumberland Plateau, the Canadian Boreal, the Amazon rainforests, British Columbia coastal and inland rainforests, Chile's siempre verde forests, Indonesia, plus many others.

Endangered Forests are so rare, threatened or ecologically vulnerable, and are of such global biological importance, that industrial resource extraction in Endangered Forests causes them irreparable harm.

We are alarmed that the world's Endangered Forests are being destroyed to make lumber, catalogs, office paper, packaging, windows, doors and many other products. These products, made by global corporations, end up on store shelves and in the mailboxes of people in the US and around the globe.

These corporations have customers that care about Endangered Forests. These customers must be educated about the products made from Endangered Forests, and encouraged to take actions that cause these companies to change the way they do business.

We call for the protection of Endangered Forests. We urge corporations to make commitments to stop using, selling, and buying products that contain Endangered Forests. We expect these products to be replaced with alternatives such as post consumer recycled paper and third party independently certified wood.

Humanity must act urgently to ensure that the global treasure of our Endangered Forests will be here for future generations of people and all creation.

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