Greenpeace anger over tree imports.(News)

From: Daily Post (Liverpool, England) | Date: June 1, 2002 | Copyright information

Byline: Mike Hornby

A MERSEYSIDE company has found itself at the centre of a legal row over the importation of rare trees from South America.

Environmental pressure group Greenpeace has launched a new court challenge over what it says is an illegal trade in protected species of timber from the Brazilian rainforests.

It is claiming in the Court of Appeal that the Department of the Environment and Customs and Excise has the power to seize shiploads of...

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