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Your support makes all the difference.Reduction of Nepal's forests over the past decade: 1/2
Laws protecting the endangered original forests of the United States: 0
Year of environmental legislation by King Ataxerxes I to restrict the felling of Lebanese cedar forests: 450BC
Daily sales of electric toothbrushes in the USA in 1986: 1,860
In 1990: 3,835
Number of Bombay's 100,000 prostitutes who are under 16: 20,000
Percentage of the world's 15,000,000 refugees who are women and children: 80
Roadtanker loads of liquid industrial waste authorised for dumping at sea by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food in 1991: 6,833
Prosecutions by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Pollution in 1990-91: 1
Overseas trade surplus of UK North Sea oil and gas companies in 1984: pounds 587,000,000
In 1990: pounds 121,000,000
Parker Pen company's published 1989
profits: pounds 20,683,000
Parker Pen company's reported charitable donations per employee in 1989: pounds 1.58
Estimated TV advertising spend of car manufacturers this month: pounds 50,000,000
Live aquarium fish exported each year from the state of Amazonas: 18,000,000
Sources: United Nations; 1992 Information Please; Scientific American Vol 267 No 1; Euromonitor Consumer USA 1992; ibid; UNICEF; UN High Commissioner for Refugees; MAFF (roadtanker=30t); Dept of Environment; HMSO The Pink Book 1991; ibid; A Guide to Company Giving 1991; ibid; ITN; Nugent, S: Big Mouth, The Amazon Speaks.
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