Japanese greenies chain themselves to bonsai trees

TOKYO, Wednesday: Anti-logging protesters in
Japan yesterday chained themselves to bonsai trees, to protest their miniature forests from destruction at the hands of local timber companies.

The drastic move followed attempts by Japan’s forestry industry to clear up to five square centimeters of natural bonsai bush land just south of Osaka. The trees were only spared when up to 40 protesters hurled themselves in front of the miniature bulldozers.

‘It’s vital we maintain this diminutive habitat and ecology incase any minuscule species ever choose to make this their natural environment,’ said one protester, who had up to twelve separate bonsai trees chained to his back.

But a spokesman for the logging industry said he wouldn’t be deterred, and that the clearing of bonsai trees was vital for the ongoing manufacture of tiny dollhouse furniture.