Madagascar holds concert against illegal logging, week before tea party’s pro-Gibson rally

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Madagascar holds concert against illegal logging, week before tea party’s pro-Gibson rally

By Associated Press, Updated: Friday, September 30, 12:04 PM

NAIROBI, Kenya — Musicians in Madagascar are holding a concert Friday to promote a message against illegal logging one week ahead of an entirely different tea party-supported concert to be held in Nashville, Tennessee to support a company that had Madagascar wood seized from it.

The Madagascar musicians want to publicize the problem of illegal logging of rosewood and ebony trees on their island nation, where more than 1,000 trees a day are unlawfully felled in the Masoala rainforest, where the nation’s renowned lemurs live.

“This is really urgent. As we know our forests are disappearing every day more and more,” said Razia Said, a singer/songwriter and one of the organizers of Friday’s concert, which organizers hope will attract up to 5,000 people.

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