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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.
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High grading is a practice of selectively harvesting fish so that only the best quality fish are brought ashore. The practice is popular in situations under individual fishing quotas where only a limited number of fish are allowed to be harvested.
Logging and cultivation practices have devastated tree cover, causing severe environmental degradation in the country. [2] Floods in East Malaysia have been worsened by the loss of trees, and over 60% of the peninsula's forest has been cleared. [4] With current rates of deforestation, the forests are predicted to be extinct by 2020. [2]
Logging is the process of cutting, processing, and moving trees to a location for transport. ... It is sometimes called selective logging, ...
Selection cutting is often (sometimes deliberately) confused with "selective" cutting, a term synonymous with the practice of highgrading (the removal of the most economically profitable trees in a forest, often with a disregard for the future of the residual stand). Often the latter term is used by foresters or loggers to imply the former ...
Salvage logging is the practice of logging trees in forest areas that have been damaged by wildfire, flood, severe wind, disease, insect infestation, ...