Barely reported in the international press, there have been major protests around mines, oil, logging and mineral exploitation in Africa, Latin America, Asia and North America.
(Stripping protection from these land monuments alone would be the landscape equivalent of opening up Yellowstone, Yosemite, Grand Canyon, Great Smokies, Mt. Rainier, Grand Teton, Rocky Mountain, the Everglades, Zion and Bryce Canyon National Parks to mining, logging and commercial exploitation).
Often, the army orders villagers off their land to allow for mining, logging and other resource exploitation.
Most of the indirect threats to these forests come from illegal logging, and petroleum exploration and exploitation.
Various information sources in petroleum exploration and exploitation, such as seismic, well logging, mud logging and drilling data, are the comprehensive reflection of the same geological body underground and have a strong correlation with each other.
The authors found that about half of all reserves work effectively, or at least passably but that the other half are seeing an alarming erosion of biodiversity, due to habitat disruption, hunting and exploitation of forest products including logging.
Q4: Should disturbances like "over-exploitation", "selective logging", and "degradation" be included in this table?
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The ever-increasing human populations in the West and Central Africa and the demands resulting from increasing poverty, many of the regions ecosystems, habitats and wildlife species have succumbed to unsustainable practices (i.e. slash and burn farming) and over-exploitation (i.e. logging and commercial bushmeat trade).
Homage and exploitation shade into each other.
