Raiding the Rain Forest: Logging Fuels Crimes, Corruption in Cameroon. / Mark Jaffe.
by Jaffe, Mark; SIRS Publishing, Inc.
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BookSeries: SIRS Enduring Issues 2002Article 28Environment. Publisher: Knight-Ridder, 2001ISSN: 1522-3205;.Subject(s): Forest conservation | International business enterprises | Logging | Rain forests -- Africa | CameroonDDC classification: 050 Summary: "Money from Europe and Asia is fueling a push into the 435-million-acre Congo Basin, the world's second-largest rain forest. Legally and illegally, timber companies, often with the aid of well-connected politicians, are descending on these dense and tangled forests." (PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER) The author focuses on the scramble for timber in Cameroon, where illegal cutting and government corruption is thriving, and finds that Asian companies dominate almost 90 percent of the tropical timber trade.
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Originally Published: Raiding the Rain Forest: Logging Fuels Crimes, Corruption in Cameroon, May 21, 2001; pp. A1+.
"Money from Europe and Asia is fueling a push into the 435-million-acre Congo Basin, the world's second-largest rain forest. Legally and illegally, timber companies, often with the aid of well-connected politicians, are descending on these dense and tangled forests." (PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER) The author focuses on the scramble for timber in Cameroon, where illegal cutting and government corruption is thriving, and finds that Asian companies dominate almost 90 percent of the tropical timber trade.
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