No Forests=No People

Even a blind man can see that we are messing our nest so badly, that it cannot be long before nature says: no more!

clipped from www.ipsnews.net Relentless Devastation of Mangroves GUATEMALA CITY, Jul 16 (Tierramérica) - "This place used to be beautiful. It was truly a mangrove forest. When the shrimp farmers arrived, we lost 60 percent of it because of the logging," said Francisco Vásquez, manager of a hotel on the Pacific coast, in the southeastern Guatemalan department of Jutiapa. According to a study by the Savia School of Ecological Thought, in the past 50 years this country of 108,889 square kilometres lost two-thirds of its original forested area and the biodiversity that it held. The current rate of deforestation is 73,000 hectares per year.