This section includes some insight as to a good solution:

'When a truck full of logs rolls into Managua everyone - media, politicians, the people - becomes upset and says they are cutting down the country's forests, but when a truck full of cattle rolls in, nobody says a word,' said Jaime Guillen of the Rainforest Alliance. 'They don't ask where the cattle came from, which is probably pasture land that is a clear-cut and burned forest.'

The alliance advocates training some Miskitos to select between 3 per cent and 5 per cent of the trees and process them 'to maximise the value to the community. Forest management in the hands of the communities in the region is much easi...

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This section includes some insight as to a good solution:

'When a truck full of logs rolls into Managua everyone - media, politicians, the people - becomes upset and says they are cutting down the country's forests, but when a truck full of cattle rolls in, nobody says a word,' said Jaime Guillen of the Rainforest Alliance. 'They don't ask where the cattle came from, which is probably pasture land that is a clear-cut and burned forest.'

The alliance advocates training some Miskitos to select between 3 per cent and 5 per cent of the trees and process them 'to maximise the value to the community. Forest management in the hands of the communities in the region is much easier to implement than simply restricting all logging,' said Guillen.