The report also says commercial logging and mining are not permitted within the entire property.
The demand for this expertise is booming.Norway applies the same strategy to traditional industries such as fishing, logging and mining.
We zigzagged through Indian reservations and logging and mining towns, but signs of human life were few and far between.
Unlike many of the world's tropical forests, the TL2 region has largely avoided industrial logging and mining to date.
The Bush administration tried to open them up to more logging and mining by giving states control.
Despite encroachment by logging and mining companies, ranchers and the military, most still live deep in the rain forest.
The Unesco world heritage committee has urged the government to reconsider plans to allow logging and mining in the 1.5m hectare area.
Merchants in small towns there, hit hard by federal laws reducing logging and mining, have been told that recreation could be their salvation.
The Obama administration on Friday extended for another year the moratorium on most logging and mining in millions of acres of remote sections of national forests.
Huge fires in the late 1990s, as well as conversion of tropical forest for agriculture, logging, and mining, have wiped out large areas of habitat.
Many fear that creating monument after monument could harm the West's economy by removing land from commercial uses like grazing, logging and mining.
