Those interested in working toward a sustainable tropical timber industry need to take into account the full spectrum of effects of logging activities in the rain forest.
Biomass depletion from logging activities comprise much more than the mere quantity of extracted timber.
Logging activities affected 76.2% of the study area at least once between 1930 and 2005.
In many cases, additional uses – and corresponding rights – can take place alongside logging activities.
The impacts of logging activities on mass wasting were examined in five watersheds in the coastal mountains of British Columbia.
For our meta-analyses, we identified case studies and reviews on depletion of carbon stocks in tropical rainforests due to logging activities and fire disturbance.
Mining activities for alluvial gold extraction on the river path and logging activities in the surroundings areas result in accelerated soil erosion within the basin area.
Based on land use policy amendment (Huang 2002) and local interviewees, logging activities eased around the late 1970s, reflecting the alteration of local economic activity.
The manipulation of habitat through thinning and logging activities may have cascading effects on fauna because of direct and indirect changes to key habitat features.
Historical aerial photos were used to document mass wasting events, and their occurrence was related to logging activities in the study basins.
However, we show that these communities may not be able to enforce a PES agreement, i.e., they may not be able to prevent logging activities by timber companies.
