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These countries should be given incentives to maintain their forests.
There are some 2.7 billion people in over 60 developing countries that are home to the world’s tropical forests.
Cutting down the hardwood forests – even when they presently receive just 5% of the final price in, say, New York – is the only way people can make ends meet.
Costa Rica, for example, has already shown that a system of paying for the provision of environmental services (like maintaining natural forests) can work in ways that preserve the environment and boost the economy.
From a global point of view, the best use of these resources is to maintain the forests, which is even possible with managed cutting.
In the decades since, forests have recovered and now cover more than half the country.
Britain’s oak forests allowed it to become the world’s premier naval power during the Age of Sail, when a good timber supply was the key to control of the seas.
If the protests boost international attention and support, Western governments may be persuaded to offer Nigeria’s government the night-vision equipment, helicopters, and air cover that it desperately needs to show Boko Haram that official forces have regained control of Borno’s forests and that the group cannot escape with impunity.
To a greater extent than most people realize, the paper we write on, the water that comes out of our taps, the medicine that heals us, the wood that builds our houses and furniture, all originate from forests.
Forests provide the fresh air we breathe and habitats for endangered species.
Approximately 1.5 billion of the world’s rural poor directly depend on forests for basic needs like food and fuel-wood.
Every year, we lose 14.6 million hectares (56,000 square miles) of forests – an area almost four times the area of Switzerland.
Irresponsible forest management, enhanced by poor governmental regulation and enforcement, and markets that reward illegal logging, are conspiring to denude the world’s most valuable and threatened forests.
Once forests start to disappear, a host of environmental, social, and economic ills usually follow, affecting us all in some way.
Pulp and paper companies are driving rampant and illegal destruction of forests that contain the richest diversity of plants in the world.
When Sumatra’s forests disappear, entire communities of people will also find themselves with no proper place to live and no decent way to make a living.
To make matters worse, the demand for wood for reconstruction following last year’s tsunami is intensifying the already untenable demands being placed on Sumatra’s forests.
Similar threats to forests are evident in the Amazon and Congo Basin.
The recent UN Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MEA) shows that forests in these and other critical regions are in serious decline due to mismanagement and will continue to disappear unless serious measures are taken.
Information released by the government of Brazil indicates that deforestation of the irreplaceable forests of the Amazon, due to factors such as agricultural conversion, reached 2.6 million hectares (roughly 10,000 square miles) in the past year, bringing the total deforested area of the Amazon to 17%.
Diverse organizations, environmentalists, and corporations concerned with the state of world’s forests are joining forces to reverse deforestation and improve forest management.
WWF studies show that if the world’s forests are allotted among a mix of uses and types – including protected areas, responsibly managed commercial forests, and restored forest landscapes – we can provide the world’s needs for forest products while conserving important environmental and social values for the foreseeable future.
Otherwise, resource shortages will push up commodity prices and create crises in food, water, fisheries, forests, land use, and housing, thereby leading to greater social injustice.
Global demand for natural resources is growing, and indigenous people are receiving little protection from those who would destroy their land, forests, and rivers.
More than half of the country is still covered by rainforest, but those forests are being cut down at an accelerating rate to satisfy voracious international demand for timber and related products.
Peru has pledged to protect its forests, which cover some 60% of the country and are among the largest and best preserved in the world.
These communities need better support and protection, so that they can continue to keep their forests intact.
Next month, Peru is hosting a major United Nations climate-change conference, and efforts to protect the world’s forests are expected to take center stage – even as those who are physically standing in the way of deforestation are being killed.
Whenever I encounter a deep civilizational problem anywhere in the world -- be it logging in rain forests, ethnic or religious intolerance, or the brutal destruction of a centuries-old cultural landscape -- somewhere at the end of the chain of causes I always find one and the same first cause: a lack of accountability to the world and responsibility for it.
That, in turn, would help in the fight against climate change, because forests store carbon.
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