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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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