Paris: the international environmental community condemns the TGB
Around thirty environmentalists representing active organisations from Europe, Africa, Australia, Japan and the USA – who are united at an international meeting in Paris on forest exploitation organised by the FME (Forest Movement Europe) – expressed today (Sunday midday) their united opposition against the abusive use of tropical timbers in the new National Library (TGB – Très Grand Bibliothèque).
The protesters organised a sit-in on the esplanade of the TGB whilst unfurling a banner denouncing in their 14 languages, including 3 Cameroonian dialects, what they consider to be an abuse of tropical wood. An IPE label was stamped on to one of the steps of the esplanade.
