Do we have time to wait for more forests - the earth's lungs - to die?
On the eve of the Global Climate Change Summit in Copenhague, a tragic development in conservation effort in Madagascar is currently taking place. Having already lost 90% of its original forest, An illegal logging traffic of rosewood that has been evoked in the Malagasy mediasphere for a few months has now been thoroughly exposed by an undercover team of investigators. The details of this very profitable traffic have been made public and shared by many citizen bloggers and scientific publications. The latest report produced by Global Witness and Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) states that about $460,000 USD a day worth of trade are made as the country is still marred in the absence of a government of national unity. The full report is available here (and in french here). |
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