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- From: jjh00@diag.amdahl.com (Joel Hanes)
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- Subject: Re: "Rainforest Destruction Has Many Victims"
- Keywords: It depends
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- Date: 21 Dec 92 20:00:20 GMT
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- hubcap@hubcap.clemson.edu (System Janitor) writes:
- >
- >I've heard that (about) 95% of the deforestation is attributable to indigenous
- >personnel slash-and-burning for farmland (which is only good for a couple
- >of years, and then they move on), and only 5% is due to any kind of
- >organized timber industry.
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- The answer is: it depends.
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- In Madagascar, and sub-Saharan Africa: probably true.
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- In Indonesia and the Phillipines: probably false. Corrupt
- governments in these countries grant huge timber concessions
- to logging firms for more-or-less formalized kickback
- payments (bribes); often these companies "mine" the
- forests in their concession area for immediate income,
- with little or no thought for environmental impact or
- long-term sustainability of the harvest --
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- something like the US Forest Service under Watt and Lujan,
- only more so.
-
- ---
- Joel Hanes
-
- who misses Pamela Hall's well-informed postings on tropical forestry
-