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A community member
Jun 3, 2018
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I was planning to buy the bamboo case the next time this dropped. Bamboo is sustainable. But teak? No. I'm not paying foreign logging companies to steal wood from SE Asian forests.
A community member
Jun 20, 2018
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yang74414Chinese manufacturers get teak and rosewood gets from Myanmar and other Southeast Asian forests by illegal, non-sustainable logging. They bribe local officials in gold to sell out their country's trees. That's stealing, and I will not pay to support it. It's very, very well documented:
https://www.illegal-logging.info/content/myanmar%E2%80%99s-rosewood-crisis
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/17/illegal-timber-myanmar-china-forests
http://www.eco-business.com/news/shady-chinese-businesses-pay-in-gold-bars-to-illegally-log-forests-in-myanmar/
https://www.economist.com/asia/2015/09/17/stumped
https://www.illegal-logging.info/content/organised-chaos-illicit-overland-timber-trade-between-myanmar-and-china
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/myanmar/frees-07302015144116.html
The Chinese media agrees: http://www.sh1800.net/Home/NewsDetail/8193?TypeID=3 http://hongmu.people.com.cn/n/2015/0528/c392126-27069067.html
The Chinese media agrees: http://www.sh1800.net/Home/NewsDetail/8193?TypeID=3 http://hongmu.people.com.cn/n/2015/0528/c392126-27069067.html
Elrick
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Oct 11, 2018
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yang74414Forget about the timber, how about fixing the Stabilizers on your keyboard first.
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