  ALL ONE CORPORATION
Stocking their Shelves . . .
With Endangered, Ancient Forest Products!
ABOUT REVY THE GREAT BEAR RAINFOREST REVY FACTS
WHOSE LAND IS BC? ENDANGERED WOOD PRODUCTS THE MARKETS ARE CHANGING WHAT YOU CAN DO
REVY is one of the largest retailers of ancient forestproducts in Canada with over 43 stores stretching from BC to Ontario. On their shelves are ancient cedars and hemlocks which have been stolen from the traditonal lands of the native people on the central coast of BC in an area known as the Great Bear Rainforest. FAN is demanding that REVY follow the lead of other "do-it-yourself" home improvement stores, such as Home Depot and Lowe's, and commit to removing all Ancient Rainforest wood from their shelves and restocking it with independently eco-certified wood and other non-wood alternatives.
THE GREAT BEAR RAINFOREST
The Great Bear Rainforest is an ancient, temperate rainforest that stretches from the southern coastal area of British Columbia all the way up to Alaska. The temperate rainforest contains more biomass than any other forest, and is home to some of the oldest and largest trees on the planet. The Great Bear Rainforest is critical habitat for many endangered animals such as the Grizzly Bear, the Kermode or 'Spirit' Bear, the Timber Wolf, the Gray wolf, the Marbled Marlet, the Goshawk and harbours some of the last, healthy, remaining Pacific salmon runs.
REVY FACTS
~REVY is owned by and purchases wood from West Fraser Timber, (a large corporation) who used to hold tenures in the endangered Great Bear Rainforest, the traditional territory of several Native peoples.
~REVY is the parent company of Revelstoke and Lansing Buildall and together have 43 stores across Canada
~Between 1995 and 1997 alone, West Fraser Timber had 108 non-compliances and 44 infractions of British Columbia's Forest Practices Code.
~REVY purchases old-growth Western Red cedar from the Great Bear Rainforest from International Forest Products (INTERFOR). INTERFOR is the largest corporation logging the Great Bear Rainforest, and is the leading destroyer of pristine rainforest valleys. They harvest ancient, old-growth forest from the traditional lands of the Nuxalk, Heiltsuk and other coastal First Nations' peoples. INTERFOR has a history of using violence to try and silence public protest. On September 15, 1999, over 80 INTERFOR employees attacked eight, peaceful protestors in the Elaho Valley (the southern-most tip of The Great Bear Rainforest), hospitalizing three. More recently, on August 30, 2000, two people from Bella Coola, were attacked by two INTERFOR employees while trying to obtain photos of rainforest destruction on "public" land.
Whose land is "BC"?
97% of "BC" is unceded, untreatied land, including all of the central coast. That means that the governments of BCand Canada, and the logging corporations have no right or jurisdiction on these lands without the express permission of the aboriginal people. The destruction continues, stealing the forests away in order to make more profits. The Nuxalk Nation and others have resisted the theft of their traditional territories by blockading InterFor's operations. The government has responded by imprisoning these defenders of traditional lands and ways.
Other 'do-it-yourself' retailers have made commitments to phase endangered forest products out of their stores. . .but not REVY(so far):
~The largest 'do-it-yourself' chain, Home Depot, declared last Fall that they are committed to phasing out ancient forest products by 2002, re-stocking their shelves with independently eco-certified wood. (We hope they keep their promise!)
~This year, the second largest 'do-it-yourself' retailer, Lowe's, declared their committment to not purchase ancient wood products from the endangered Great Bear Rainforest.
~Some of the largest 'do-it-yourself' chains in Europe have cancelled contracts with companies that clearcut in the Great Bear Rainforest and have declared that they will purchase only wood products from second-growth forests and/or wood products that are independently certified by organizations, such as the Forest Stewardship Council, as supplies become available. A large European retailer, B&Q, no longer buys wood products from British Columbia.
ENDANGERED WOOD PRODUCTS TO AVOID
Red Cedar-from the Great Bear Rainforest
Douglas Fir-from the Great Bear Rainforest
Hemlock-from the Great Bear Rainforest
Mahogany-from the Brazilian Rainforest
Lauan-from the rainforest in the Philippines
Ramin-from the Borneo Rainforest
WHAT YOU CAN DO
~Do not buy ancient forest products from REVY, Revelstoke or Lansingg Buildall.
~Ask REVY staff for sustainably harvested, independently eco-certified wood.
~Pass on this information to other consumers.
~Organize with others to campaign against REVY until they commit to going ancient forest product free.
~Write a letter to REVY to voice your concern:
Al Cheney, VP Operation
REVY Home Centers, INC.
19550-92nd Avenue
Surrey, B.C., Canada V4N 4G7
Tel: (604) 882-6200
Fax: (604) 888-1554
check out REVY's website at www.revy.ca |
