and these practices in particular could save millions of acres of rain forest every year. Sustainable-logging regimes that selectively cull trees rather than clear-cut them Encouraging people who ...

In forests degraded by logging, very tall ... Our last tracts of undisturbed tropical rainforest have to be protected. But it also shows us that ending deforestation isn't enough by itself.

But this vital global resource is being depleted at an alarming rate, as illegal and legal logging destroys more than 32 million acres of rainforest each year. 1 Rainforest Connection, a San ...

Logging and land conversion, mainly for agriculture, have wiped out 34 per cent of the world’s original old-growth tropical rainforests, and degraded another 30 per cent, leaving them more ...

These include the World Heritage site Atsinanana Rainforest in Madagascar, threatened by the trade in rosewood and ebony. Illegal logging has indirectly put other species at risk by removing their ...