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     2        2.  The submission relates to representations made by
     3        Friends of the Earth in 1985/6 to McDonald's UK about the
     4        beef purchasing policies and practices of the McDonald's
     5        Corporation in the United States, and their relationship to
     6        tropical forest land sources during the 1970s and 1980s.
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     8        It covers, amongst other matters, a meeting between myself
     9        and representatives of McDonald's UK, held in 1985 at the
    10        East Finchley Head Office of McDonald's UK, about these
    11        issues and subsequent correspondence, and includes copies
    12        of representative correspondence from McDonald's UK to two
    13        supporters of FOE who made similar inquiries.
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    15        3.  My relevant work experience is as follows:
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    17        3.1.  In 1985, following extensive research on tropical
    18        deforestation, I launched Friends of the Earth
    19        international Rainforest Campaign, the first in the world
    20        to investigate and campaign against the range of economic,
         social and political causes of tropical forest clearance.
    22        I led that campaign for nearly 3 years.
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    24        3.2.  Since 1985, I have investigated first-hand various
    25        development activities and schemes in tropical forest
    26        areas, including logging in penisula Malaysia and the state
    27        of Sarawak (1986); mining and colonisation settlements in
    28        Para 1987, eastern Amazonia (1987); and, logging and
    29        forestry operations in Costa Rica and Nicaragua (1991-2).
    30        I have been an official Observer at the International
    31        Tropical Timber Organisation (1987).
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    33        A.  I wonder if I could add something to that paragraph
    34        briefly.  I would like to point out that the trip that
    35        I made to Malaysia and Sarawak in 1986 was at the
    36        invitation of the Malaysian Government.
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    38   Q.   "During these trips, and on many other occasions, I have
    39        had frequent meetings with relevant Government Ministers
    40        and officials, academics and representatives from natural
         resource and land-use industries and non-governmental
    42        organisations about a wide range of issues relating to
    43        tropical forest, and tropical forest land, use and
    44        management."
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    46   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  That is "tropical forest land use", is it, or
    47        is it "tropical forest land"?
    48        A.  I think it should really be "tropical forest lands, use
    49        and management".
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    51   Q.   Thank you. 
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    53   MR. MORRIS: "3.3.  I have read and studied a considerable body
    54        of official and scientific literature on most aspects of
    55        the tropical forest ecology and related economic and social
    56        development issues.
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    58        4.  While the International Rainforest Campaigner for
    59        Friends of the Earth, I had a meeting (on Friday 8th
    60        November, 1985) with representatives from McDonald's UK