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Laurance, W.F.
Cut and run: the dramatic rise of transnational logging in the tropics
2000 Tree (15): 433-434
We live in an era of unprecedented economic globalization. In many developing nations, tariffs and trade barriers are falling, while new international free-trade agreements promote foreign investment, particularly in natural resource-based industries, such as timber, mining, agriculture and infrastructure development. By increasing economic growth, these new agreements have the potential to improve the livelihoods of many people in the developing world. Trade liberalization, however, has a darker side, as detailed in an exhaustive and much anticipated report4 on tropical logging commissioned by the European Community (EC) and undertaken by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). The report, which was originally drafted in 1997, was so explosive that it was only recently released, because the EC and WWF feared litigation from logging corporations and repercussions from tropical countries criticized in the report. The final version has been sanitized but still paints an alarming picture of rainforest logging.
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