It is hard to imagine the world before the development of the 20th century got going. Most of our planet would have been covered in dense green forest and home to vast array of animal life and some of which has been lost forever. People across the world also depend on forests and jungles for survival, with an astonishing 81% of these forests have already been destroyed or permanently damaged, and most of this has taken place in the last 35 years.
The Brazilian Amazon has been devastated for your shiny mahogany flooring and teak garden furniture and buying unprotected timber, in addition to destroying primary forests, may have financed/supported groups guilty of human rights abuses and suffering. Not to mention the killing of endangered species, and destruction of tribes and deprived animals of a place they call home.
Thankfully just 9 per cent of earth’s remaining forest is currently protected from further devastation.
While we all understand people need to make a living and support there families, the rate in witch we are ruining the place we call home will make life for our children and generations to come, and the wild life we see today will only be seen in books or youtube videos archived in our history that we caused to happen.
For the last 10 years in the 47 we have been operating as a family business we have turned to sustainable and eco-friendly woods, everything we use is completely salvages from old buildings that have been demolished.
This means our materials have little to no impact on the world we live in today, forests are not being cut down due to our furniture and wild life and nature can continue.
No business is perfect but we all need to come together to make the world a better place and even the smallest change is a move in the right direction.