Webpage address: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6337107.stm
Date: 07-02-2007
This article is about illegal logging is destroying forests in South-East Asia quicker than had been feared, with dire implications for orang-utans, a UN report has said. If there is no action taken, 98% of the forests on the
Opinion:
I think it is a difficult situation. Many of us in the Western countries will have our furniture made out of hardwood from the rainforests. First thing we have to say is that we won’t buy furniture and timber any longer without a certificate. It means that we have to pay a lot more, because for each tree that has been chopped, the logging companies have to replant three young trees. The countries like
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I do realise the timber is a big source of income for the local farmers and they need the ground to grow their crops. A bit the same situation as in Afghanistan where the locals grow papaver. Heroin and opium is made of it and therefore the fields should be destroyed, but how do the farmers get an income then? In Indonesia however the difference is the orangutan is in big danger. Maybe the international society has to show how much they really care about the orangutan and raise money for the farmers.
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