Deforestation accelerating in Central Africa


	Deforestation accelerating in Central Africa

cobismith

6-11-2007 7:06 AM

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deforestation, environment, sustainability, africa, biodiversity, economics

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/764b3b9f-01c7-4a35-a7b4-3da14c9ba94e/EE8F0D8E-08A8-4637-842B-BBD15920F37A/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.scidev.net/content/news/eng/deforestation-accelerating-in-central-africa.cfm?&amp;utm_source=feed-1&amp;utm_medium=rss" href="http://www.scidev.net/content/news/eng/deforestation-accelerating-in-central-africa.cfm?&amp;utm_source=feed-1&amp;utm_medium=rss" style="font-size: 11px;">www.scidev.net</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.scidev.net/content/news/eng/deforestation-accelerating-in-central-africa.cfm?&amp;utm_source=feed-1&amp;utm_medium=rss"><P>Central Africa is steadily giving way to industrial logging, a new research report shows.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.scidev.net/content/news/eng/deforestation-accelerating-in-central-africa.cfm?&amp;utm_source=feed-1&amp;utm_medium=rss"><P>In Central Africa as a whole, 600,000 square kilometers of forest –– 30 per cent — has been conceded for logging, whereas only 12 per cent is protected.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.scidev.net/content/news/eng/deforestation-accelerating-in-central-africa.cfm?&amp;utm_source=feed-1&amp;utm_medium=rss"><P>“It has never being timelier to monitor forest degradation in Central Africa because there’s still an opportunity to make a significant difference in reducing the amount of deforestation,” Laporte told SciDev.Net.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.scidev.net/content/news/eng/deforestation-accelerating-in-central-africa.cfm?&amp;utm_source=feed-1&amp;utm_medium=rss"><P>She says the ‘average citizen’ will be the one to determine the future of the forests in Central Africa.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.scidev.net/content/news/eng/deforestation-accelerating-in-central-africa.cfm?&amp;utm_source=feed-1&amp;utm_medium=rss"><P>“If the average citizen decides he only wants to buy certified wood, the industrial company will have to comply. If they do not care, the forests of the world, not just Africa, could be damaged beyond recovery.”</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.scidev.net/content/news/eng/deforestation-accelerating-in-central-africa.cfm?&amp;utm_source=feed-1&amp;utm_medium=rss"><P>“[People] believe in the concept of having inexhaustible natural resources, and the implication is that we are reckless to our environment and it is showing in the way we are losing biodiversity.”</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/EE8F0D8E-08A8-4637-842B-BBD15920F37A/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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