Demands for timber seizure

Greenpeace has demanded that the government seize a huge cargo of illegal timber from Indonesia's rainforests that has arrived in London.
Greenpeace forest campaigner John Sauven said: "The logging, export and sale of this timber is nothing short of organised crime. Behind each sheet of plywood that originates in Indonesia's rainforests there is a web of criminal activity, corruption and bloodshed. Governments worldwide must reject this illegal timber."
A Timber Trade Federation (TTF) spokesman said: "Green-peace must remember that only 4% of Indonesia's timber yield enters the UK market, with 75% going to Japan and China. We are therefore very small players. We are, however, determined to do what we can to place Indonesia's forestry sector on a more sustainable footing by remaining fully engaged. Greenpeace's approach will do nothing other than displace the UK market with less environmentally sensitive markets like China."
TTF launched its own Action Plan in July 2003, aiming to source exclusively legal timber from Indonesia.
Jewson and Travis Perkins have stopped supplying Indon-esia's plywood because of concerns about illegal timber trading.