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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.
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 ...
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In forestry, high grading, also sometimes referred to as selective logging, is a selective type of timber harvesting that removes the highest grade of timber (i.e. the most merchantable stems) in an area of forest.
Hunting and trapping, logging and wood harvesting, and fishing and other aquatic resource use can result in accidental killing or habitat destruction. Finally, pollution poses a significant risk ...
Species endangered by logging for timber (12 P) Pages in category "Species that are or were threatened by logging" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total.
“Forest management is the best way to halt environmental crime, from land-grabbing to illegal logging,” Frank Almeida, president of the National Forum, told the AP. “But there is no use in creating a project that won´t become a reality,” he said, referencing recent government actions related to exports that have generated business ...