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In Malaysia, the World Bank estimates that trees are being cut down at 4 times the sustainable rate. [7] Logging does not have to be as destructive a practice as it currently is in Malaysia. In the past 2 decades, Malaysia has moved towards diversifying its economy, but logging still draws in many because of poor regulation and high profit.
Pages in category "Species that are or were threatened by selective logging" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
[1] High grading can also be a form of fraud on the owner of the trees. Indeed, stumpage rates (the amount paid per a certain volume of wood) are based on the average quality of the wood. By taking only the best timber, the wood cutter obtains wood more valuable than average at the price of average wood.
Logging in Reynoldston, NY 1870–1930, northern foothills of the Adirondack Mountains; Life in Logging Camps in Reynoldston NY 1870–1930; BC Forest Safety Council; Pictorial history of logging from 1880–1920; Naturally:wood Sustainable Forest Management; Logging in North Vancouver in the 1910s – A visual history from the UBC Library ...
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Henry Nicholas Ridley CMG (1911), MA (Oxon), FRS, [1] FLS, F.R.H.S. (10 December 1855 – 24 October 1956) was an English botanist, geologist and naturalist who lived much of his life in Singapore. He was instrumental in promoting rubber trees in the Malay Peninsula that led to a level of rapid deforestation, instrumental in the 1926 Great Flood.
1987 - Communities in Sarawak, such as Penan and Kayan, resisted logging by putting up a blockade in the Baram region - 42 activists were arrested. [9]1990 - The Voices for the Borneo Rainforest World Tour, brought Indigenous perspectives to forums across the globe, with the goal of raising awareness about the logging in Sarawak, and calling for an end to deforestation in primary rainforests ...
This category is for articles on history books with Malaysia as a topic. Pages in category "History books about Malaysia" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.