Sentence examples for rainforest timber from inspiring English sources

Most rainforest timber is used locally.

He told me: "I travelled for days along APP logging roads carved out of primary rainforest, and watched as bulldozers cleared natural forests and at least 20 trucks a day hauled rainforest timber out of WKS's operating estates". How had these brands come by their coveted ecolabel?

Above 95%% of its area (8Mha) is occupied by tropical rainforest: timber extraction by selective logging is the 3rd economic sector.

There is no doubt that rainforest timbers bring high prices on markets, nor that there is money to be made in felling them and growing crops.

Within the resources available for the study, some program benefits could not be valued, including the 'social healing' value following the bitter local controversy over World Heritage listing, and the research value gained from growing a wide variety of species of high-quality tropical rainforest timbers in plantations.

The struggle between the Tongass temperate rainforest and timber interests has been ongoing for 25 years.

In recent decades, Indonesia's forestry sector has gained international notoriety for clearing tropical rainforests for timber and vast oil palm plantations.

Illegal loggers have been known to feed the drug to their elephants to make the animals work harder in stripping the country's remote rainforests of timber.

The southern rainforest has vast timber reserves, estimated to cover 37% of Cameroon's total land area.

In the Congo Basin rainforests, integration of timber and non-timber forest resources plays a key role in the subsistence and market economies of rural communities.

The USDA Forest Service is pushing through the sale of nearly 6,200 acres of Tongass rainforest's old growth timber for 10-15 years of logging, claiming that's what the timber industry needs to "transition" to second-growth timber management.