The phrase "exploitation of timber" is correct and usable in written English.
It is most commonly used when referring to the unsustainable and excessive harvesting of timber from forests, especially in an environmental context. For example, "The exploitation of timber in this region has far-reaching effects on the local environment."
The mixed character of these forests is a major obstacle to large-scale exploitation of timber.
This disparity could also be a manifestation of logging impact or exploitation of timber species within the cacao landscape.
Logging, largely handled by foreign-owned firms, provides the government US$60 million a year as of 1998, and laws mandate the safe and sustainable exploitation of timber.
They brought with them the notion that property ownership could be proved only through intense use of land and exploitation of timber and gold and mineral wealth at all cost.
This is aggravated by the increasing over-exploitation of timber resources by powerful stakeholders and the unfair distribution of timber benefits.
The main causes are shifting cultivation, grazing, selective cutting of valuable or rare tree species, road and dam construction, and over-exploitation of non-timber forest products to satisfy the basic needs of rural people.
Post-war logging and deforestation exacerbated as a result of timber exploitation by state forest enterprises (SFEs) or resource overuses following economic crises linked to collectivization and internal migration programs (De Koninck 1999; McElwee 2004, 2016).
More than ever, the economy seemed to depend on the exploitation of natural resources, especially timber and metals.
The exploitation of the forests for timber started in the 1860s with the rapid growth of the city of Dunedin as a result of the goldrush of 1861 62.
The value of commercial exploitation of fish, shrimp or timber harvesting can generally be assessed through analysis of market prices.
Similarly, in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia, recent, prolonged periods of armed conflict and population upheavals, coupled with the unchecked exploitation of natural resources by international timber and mining companies, have altered regional ecology, rendering it more vulnerable physically as well as politically.
