"...While Rainforest Relief has yet to assess the cutting of copra plantation hardwoods first hand, we support the concept of using senile, non-forest, plantation-grown palm trees to replace the use of unsustainable and illegally-logged rainforest and tropical forest woods...we are excited by the prospect of a large-scale alternative to unsustainable and illegally-logged rainforest wood coming onto the market and support the efforts of those marketing Tangaloa hardwoods..."

---Rainforest Relief

From a public support statement by Rainforest Relief, the leading environmental activist organization fighting hardwood imports into the United States.