Posts Tagged ‘illegal logging’

Indonesia’s rainforests recover from deforestation due to illegal logging

Friday, September 25, 2009 17:29 By GSerrano

More than 70 percent of Indonesia’s original forest cover has been lost. Logging, which is mostly illegal, is estimated to destroy over 2.4 million hectares per year.
Re-elected Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) gets international praise for leading the fight against deforestation in his country. All Indonesian presidents in the past have pledged to preserve [...]

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Illegal logging in Madagascar: raised to international attention

Tuesday, June 30, 2009 17:44 By GSerrano

Madagascar owns one of the world’s richest biodiversity hotspots. In some of the country’s protected areas, organized groups engaged in illegal logging have been felling ‘valuable rosewood trees and extracting other resources’ mostly from the Marojejy National Park and Masoala National Park.
To prove that illegal logging, a major cause of deforestation of the world’s rainforests, [...]

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Killer Inhabitants of the Rainforests

Sunday, January 4, 2009 23:28 By GSerrano

The destruction of animal and plant species in the rainforest has been rapid. The loss is permanent. According to the German environmental organization OroVerde, three different types of animal and plant life are made extinct every hour. The biggest killer of the rainforest is man. The ecosystem is disturbed and biodiversity destroyed with the incursion [...]

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Increasing Denudation of the Amazon Rainforest

Sunday, November 30, 2008 18:13 By GSerrano

The Amazon rainforest has deteriorated just a bit more in four years, losing 11,968 sq km of land to clearing from January to July this year alone. Higher by 4 percent as compared to the same period last year, Amazon deforestation has largely been due to illegal logging. There had been efforts to curb the [...]

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