"And there shouldn't be deforestation on slopes more than a certain steepness but it still happens.
Effluent from agriculture and deforestation on the shore can silt up the water, and the encroachment of industry causes contamination.
Next year the tribe will host other indigenous peoples who want to repair deforestation on their own lands.
These are minor headaches compared with the most recent native custom I discovered: deforestation, on the most local of levels.
The course of these streams is irregular, and, because of massive deforestation on the upper slopes, floods and landslides occur frequently during the spring and fall rains.
"Deforestation on the island nation will compound the problem, increasing the rate of runoff and the risk of flash flooding and mudslides.
Separately, clashes between the police and students at Middle East Technical University in Ankara began Friday and continued into Saturday, with the police firing tear gas and water cannons at demonstrators who were protesting deforestation on their campus.
The agency certainly has a poor record of preventing deforestation on the land it administers.Second, the existing laws that govern what land can be used and what cannot are confusing and close to unenforceable.
The World Bank has stopped lending money to the palm-oil industry amid concerns about the impacts of plantation expansion on local people and the effects of deforestation on orang-utans and other wildlife.
The penalty for violators is far heftier: One developer was recently fined $24,000 for illegal tree clearance, and Tyler Perry, the movie actor and director, was penalized $177,000 for unauthorized deforestation on his property.
As WRI's Sizer explained: "If you're a Unilever, say … and you see this (recent deforestation) on a map, you're immediately going to call up the (offending) company and talk about what's going on".
