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Showing posts with label Illegal logging. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Illegal logging. Show all posts

Feb 22, 2010

Orangutan survival and the shopping trolley

The challenge of saving the orangutan - man's closest relative - from extinction is trickling down to the...

Dec 6, 2009

Indonesia: Timber Corruption’s High Costs

Image by Getty Images via Daylife (Jakarta) - Corruption in Indonesia's lucrative forestry industry costs the government US$2 billion a...

Sep 25, 2009

Indonesia’s rainforests recover from deforestation due to illegal logging - Trends Updates

Image via Wikipedia More than 70 percent of Indonesia ’s original forest cover has been lost. Logging , which is mostly illegal , is estimat...

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