"The Sun, Moon and stars will have disappeared long ago ... had they happen to be in the field of human hands. "predatory Havelock Ellis, Dance of life, 1923.
The above can also be true, but as public awareness of environmental issues increases, "human hands" encounter more and more ways for the protection of resources, which will be available. And contrary to popular belief, the protection of the planet does not always mean that we have to compromise on the value or quality of life! Nowhere is this more evident than with rattan furniture.
Rattan can grow in areas that would otherwise deliver little or no benefit to the local community, such as land, which remains under the flood water for long periods of time and which would otherwise have been the brains, and not an asset of the less-favoured areas. Rattan also flourished in degraded forests and poor soil and can be introduced into existing forests without damaging the ecosphere. Cultivation and harvesting can provide one rattan lives of the families that would otherwise be lives on the line of poverty-particularly, is easy to use, requiring only simple tools and machinery.
As well as beautiful, cane and rattan furniture is environmentally friendly. Most of the rattan Conservatory furniture used in comes from Southeast Asia where rattan cultivates up to 6 metres per year and thus quickly revived itself after the harvest. Compare this with the wood, which can take a generation or more to refresh.
The presence of rattan in forests also helps protect existing trees and forests of clinging tightly to the trees, like bubble-wrap, to make sure that at the time of felling, neighbouring trees are not unnecessarily damaged.
By investing in cane or rattan furniture, you can be sure that you are using renewable material and that your purchase will help communities in Southeast Asia to provide their own support through cultivation, harvesting and processing of rattan, rather than relying on external assistance.
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