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Cut and Run : Illegal Logging and Timber Trade in the Tropics by Rob Glastra; International Development Research Centre (Canada) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Illegal logging and trade in timber is a major cause of forest degradation in the world today. Not only does it threaten biodiversity-rich old growth forests, it also endangers the livelihoods of the traditional communities that are dependent upon them. But controlling this global problem is not a simple matter of enacting new laws and enforcing new regulations --- the rules already exist. If countries are to manage their forest sustainability they must implement existing laws effectively, and they must do so now!<br> <br> Cut and Run offers readers some valuable insights on how this might be done. It exposes and analyzes illegal practices in the logging industry and timber trade of four tropical countries. In Brazil, Asian logging companies are furtively establishing themselves in Amazonia. In Paraguay, complicity in illegal activities has reached the highest levels of society. In Ghana, illegal activity by cocoa farmers is devastating forests. And, in Cameroon, fines and fees are seldom imposed and enforcement is grossly inadequate. <br> <br> Of course, these countries are not alone. From Paraguay to Siberia, from Thailand to Canada, our forests are being jeopardized by unscrup

Who reads Cut and Run : Illegal Logging and Timber Trade in the Tropics?

Author

Rob Glastra; International Development Research Centre (Canada)

Publisher

International Development Research Centre

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9781552500538

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Nature, Management, Business