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The Answer is Yes!
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Dear Annabelle,
We’re still waiting! Victoria’s Secret is spending lots of time and money on selling PINK, but they sure are dragging their feet to be green. For two years, Victoria’s Secret has been considering a more environmentally friendly paper for their catalogs, but we are demanding it! While we all wait they continue to send out over a million catalogs a day - destroying over 130 trees a day. The time for action is NOW! Help us keep the pressure on and make sure they hear us loud and clear! We demand they MAKE their decision and make the RIGHT decision - to protect our Endangered Forests. The campaign is heating up. Sign-up to get more involved. There are lots of things you can do. Check it out! *Organize a Demonstration
*Attend an Event
*Pass Out leaflets to Victoria’s Secret customersSign-up NOW!
Victoria’s Secret is an icon of fashion, but they need to realize that destroying forests is never in fashion. That’s because forest destruction for catalogs destroys wildlife habitat and contributes to global warming. Together, we can make sure Victoria's Secret makes a change for the better and help protect our last remaining endangered forests.
For the Forests,
Liz Butler
Organizing DirectorP.S. Have you sent a free fax to the CEO reminding him - Forests Matter? Take Action NOW!
I wrote back:
Hello Liz,
Maybe it's a good idea to single out and/or focus on Victoria's Secret because of their sexy image because it brings attention to the problem of waste and destruction of trees. In my experience however I receive a lot of catalogues from Eddie Bauer, Lands End, Nordstrom and L. L. Bean. Every time I buy something online I start getting tons of paper catalogues. Despite buying underwear from Victoria's Secret Stores at least once a year--they have my address-- they've never sent a paper catalogue.
O.K. That being said I support Forest Ethics efforts on my blog:
What I want to know is why does Forest Ethics focus so much on Victoria's Secret when these other retailers are just as or more wasteful. Because of the Internet these catalogues are almost completely unnecessary. If they must send them to some who don't have Internet access they should be printed on recycled paper.
Thanks from Annabelle Echo
Liz wrote back:
The answer is that 2 reasons:
1. They send out 395 million catalogs a year which is much larger then other catalogs. They also send out more to an single person on their list (we have been told that people will get 20-24 a year if they are on the list)
2. Major reason is that they source out of a key endangered forest here is the info on that forests.
I hope this helps.
Liz
Information from Forest Ethics:
Endangered Boreal Forests of Alberta's Rocky Mountain Foothills
* Only 2% of Alberta's Rocky Mountain Foothills eco-region is legally protected from logging, oil and gas drilling and other industrial development. The Little Smoky and Big Horn Endangered Forests are two of the most extensive and least disturbed areas in the Foothills that are in need of immediate protection.
* West Fraser is currently logging both the Little Smoky and Big Horn Endangered Forests and turning them into wood products and pulp that goes into Victoria Secret Catalogs
* The Little Smoky Endangered Forest is adjacent to the Magnificent Jasper National Park and contains some of the most important ecological values found in the Foothills.
* Woodland caribou, grizzly bear, cougar, wolf, wolverine, fisher, marten, moose, elk, and deer still roam freely in this area, and its rivers and streams provide key habitat for a diversity of fish including bull trout, arctic grayling and mountain whitefish.
* Woodland Caribou populations in West Fraser's Forest Management Area have declined 20% over the past 20 years and West Fraser's plans for continued logging threaten their very existence.
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